PhD Student of Geography • Political Ecology • Development • Indigenous Geographies • Nepal and the Himalayas • MA University of Colorado, 2020
Environment-Society
Thesis title:Ìý"Mountains are Commons, Grasses are Divided": Indigenous Environmental Governance Between Conservation and Democracy
Faculty Advisor: Emily Yeh
Recent Publications:
- Gurung, Phurwa (2022) Governing caterpillar fungus: Participatory conservation as state-making, territorialization, and dispossession in Dolpo, Nepal.ÌýEnvironment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
- Gurung, Phurwa and Bauer, Ken (2022) Infrastructures of Change: Development among Pastoralists in Dolpo (1990–2020). InÌýThe Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Highland Asia, eds. J.P. Wouters and Michael T. Heneise. doi:Ìý
- Gurung, Phurwa (2021) Challenging Infrastructural Orthodoxies: Political and Economic Geographies of a Himalayan Road.ÌýGeoforumÌý120 (March): 103-112. .
Updated November 2022
