The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains: An International Political Ecology of the Himalaya

In: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Series

Abstract

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About This Book -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1 Politics and Ecology in the Himalaya -- Introduction: Making States on Moving Mountains -- Political Ecology and International Relations in Dialogue -- Scientific Knowledge, Environmental Crisis and the Anthropocene -- Outline of the Book -- Bibliography -- 2 Bridging International Relations and Political Ecology -- Introduction: International Relations and Political Ecology -- How Does the Himalaya Look in IR? -- Political Ecology and Its International Entanglements -- Critical International Relations in Dialogue with Political Ecology -- Conclusion: An International Political Ecology Approach -- Bibliography -- 3 The Himalaya as an International Region -- Introduction: Surveying the Himalaya -- The Transformation of the Himalaya -- Organising Politics at High-Altitude -- State-making in the Himalaya -- The Contemporary Environment -- International Organisations and the Himalaya -- Languages and Diversity Across Borders in the Himalaya -- Conclusion: A New Himalayan Research Agenda for IR -- Bibliography -- 4 Militaries on Melting Ice: The Ladakh-Gilgit-Western Tibet Ice Caps -- Introduction: Ecological and Geopolitical Entanglements on Ice -- Environmental State-making in the Western Himalaya -- The 'Decolonization' of the Western Himalaya -- Siachen, Kargil, and the 2020 India-China conflict -- Cultural and Ecological Entanglements -- Dams and Power Generation -- Conclusion: Bordering High Altitudes -- Bibliography -- 5 Foothills, Forests and Fortresses: The Sikkim-Bhutan-Nepal Borderlands -- Introduction: The Sikkim-Nepal-Bhutan borderlands -- The Independent Lives of Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan -- Bhutan: Cultural Distinctiveness Between India and China -- Sikkim: Independence and Annexation -- Borders, Animals and More-than-human Ecologies.