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Nadine Plachta
Postdoctoral Fellow, Geography and Planning
Dr. Nadine Plachta is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Geography and Planning. Her work focuses on social and cultural transformations in contemporary Nepal and, in particular, the use of citizenship and belonging as a resource for governance and economic development. She has explored this theme in the context of infrastructural politics, land and natural resource conflicts, local ecological knowledge, and environmental management. Her most recent research explores how borderland communities reassess their expectations of the future within recurring situations of disaster and crisis. Her scholarship is based on long-term ethnographic engagement in South Asia, and, especially in Nepal where she lived and worked for Heidelberg University’s South Asia Institute for five years (2014-2019). Nadine is also Editorial Team Member of the online journal Roadsides, as well as Book Reviews Editor of Himalayan, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.
Research Interests
Social transformations, citizenship, environmental management, disaster and crisis