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This dissertation research is an intervention into debates about environmental justice in an era of rapid industrialization and urbanization especially in the Global South and the

consequent ecological degradation and income inequality. This work comprises four main contributions to the Geography. First, its focus on the Himalayan region highlights a geographic and academic area of study, which despite its ecological and geo-political importance, is at the conceptual peripheries of knowledge production in both South Asian and South-East Asian Studies. Second, it furthers our understanding of environmental politics in the Anthropocene by demonstrating the centrality of ecological precarity to indigenous, technocratic, and political narratives and practices. Third, it points to overlooked forms of political action and knowledge through serious engagement with indigenous narratives of geological and supernatural events.

And finally, it reveals the centrality of youth, indigeneity, and colonial legacies of racialization to contemporary politics in India, one of this century’s crucibles of global environmental and economic change.

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