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Speaker: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia, University of British Columbia
Professor Sherpa will discuss her latest research on community-based approaches to co-creating knowledge and solutions in working towards collective survival on warming planet. This project builds on her previous research on the human dimensions of climate change in the Himalayas and longterm ethnographic study of the Sherpa community at home and in the diaspora. Dr. Sherpa uses ethnographic methods to study everyday concerns of Himalayan people in order to normalize their experiences and represent them as equal partners in decision-making spaces. The socio-economic and environmental forces she explores include mountaineering, conservation and development, climate change, migration, and transnationalism.
Speaker’s Bio: Dr. Pasang Yangjee Sherpa is a Sharwa from Pharak, northeastern Nepal (popularly known as the Mount Everest region). She is an Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia at the University of British Columbia. She is jointly appointed at the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Department of Asian Studies. Her research employs community-based methodologies to explore collective survival on a warming planet, grounded in her long-term ethnographic study of Sherpa communities at home and within the diaspora, and the human dimensions of climate change in the Himalayas. She examines these topics from a critical Indigenous perspective, focusing on the high Himalaya. Pasang is a co-founder of the Knowledge Justice Collective, through which she and her collaborators seek to foster meaningful engagement across knowledge systems, recognizing the epistemological value of Indigenous Knowledges in solving world problems.
Registration:
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