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Upland Agriculture, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation: Performing Developmental Responsibilities in Northeast India
Full text linkIn the last two decades, different governments in India have made a concerted effort to address the plight of the marginal farmer who owns (or has access to) some private or communal land across the uplands in the northeast of the country. Various governmental schemes and subsidies have been initiated to ensure that other ways of earning a livelihood mitigate falling returns from agriculture and the increasing need for cash among farmers. Upland farmers have evoked both hope and despair from governments that look to transform subsistence-style agricultural practices into revenue-earning endeavours. They have been the source of much political posturing, as the regional political elite, scientists, and industry have taken up their cause. The same farmers have also been subjected to intense policy pressure, persuading them to think differently and pull themselves out of poverty. There is, therefore, an increasing demand for them to prepare for radical changes in their livelihoods and way of thinking. In this article, I draw from fieldwork conducted in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, and Mizoram to examine how new discourses of entrepreneurship and innovation have become essential to understanding social and economic transformations in the uplands of Northeast India
Building a Multilingual Republic: An Interview with Dr. Lava Deo Awasthi, Founding Chair of Nepal’s Language Commission
Full text linkThis contribution is an edited version of a wide-ranging conversation between linguistic anthropologist and past co-editor of HIMALAYA, Mark Turin, and Lava Deo Awasthi, the first Chairperson of Nepal’s Language Commission. In the course of the interview, Turin and Awasthi discuss the Commission’s role and establishment, Awasthi’s appointment to the position of Chairperson, his intellectual training and administrative preparation for the task, and the strategic goals and objectives that he brought to the portfolio. The conversation then moves on to a critical reflection of the challenges and achievements of Awasthi’s term as Chairperson, concluding with his vision for mother tongue instruction and linguistic justice in Nepal
Vkur Nukuj (Let Us Return): Taking Ancestral Photographs Home
Full text linkThis article explores the complexities of colonial photography, archival ownership, and visual repatriation within the context of Arunachal Pradesh, India, focusing on historic Nyishi photographs from the Pitt Rivers Museum. By reconnecting the families of Nyishi interpreters Bath Heli and Kop Temi with photographs taken by colonial administrators Ursula Graham Bower and Charles Robert Stonor, the study examines the power dynamics embedded in the archival process. Using an autoethnographic approach, the research situates visual repatriation as a medium for restoring Nyishi cultural memory and examining tribal identity. The findings reveal how photographs, once decontextualized in the colonial archive, carry distinct meanings when reintegrated into their communities— challenging colonial narratives locked within museum spaces and enabling cultural resurgence
A Borderland’s Soul: Through the India–China Border and the Hidden Histories of Kalimpong: Review of ´Through the India–China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas by Prem Poddar and Lisa Lindkvist Zhang
Full text linkSession One Panel Discussion: Open Research Communities
No full textJoin Judith Fathallah, Kevin Sanders, Ailsa Niven, Zuzanna Zagrodzka, and Fiona Ramage along with their chair Simon Smith (he/him) to discuss their talks from Session One of the Open Research Conference 2025
small changes: taking back control of research through open software
Full text linkThe academic research process in the UK is hindered by the corporate software ecosystems imposed by universities. For all the advancement of open research practices, the use and distribution of open source software in academic research has been neglected in favour of the proprietary software defaults provided top-down by our institutions. Despite progress on open access publishing and open data sharing, academic researchers still use closed software like Microsoft Word for writing, Microsoft SharePoint for document management, and Microsoft Teams or Zoom for communication and conferencing. In this talk, I discuss the failures of proprietary software in UK Higher Education and advocate for open researchers to take back control of their research process using open source software.
In particular, I focus on small software changes that academic researchers can make to their research practices. This includes using Zotero for reference management, using kMeet for videoconferencing, and using Zettlr for note-taking and academic writing. I argue that these small acts lay the groundwork for larger cultural change in open research such as divesting from proprietary software platforms like Elsevier\u27s Pure or the Ex Libris suite of academic library systems. By embedding open source software in open research practices, we can divest from expensive and unreliable corporate software and take back control of the research process
Session Three Panel Discussion: Open Research Systems and Infrastructure
No full textJoin Sayeed Choudhury, Mahesh Karnani, Simon Bowie, and Evangeline Gowie along with panel chair Theo Andrew to discuss their talks and to think about the impacts of systems and infrastructure on the challenges of open research. 
The Thames Path 2040 (2022)
No full textIn South London\u27s Peckham neighborhood, artist Lex Fefegha confronts an unsettling reality: over a million Londoners live in flood plains, with 17% of the city at medium to high flood risk. Through \u27Thames Path 2040,\u27 he uses AI to transform familiar streets into evocative visions of possible futures, exploring how rising waters might reshape London\u27s communities
The Overlay (2022)
No full textIn Madrid\u27s Lavapiés neighborhood, artist Inés Cámara Leret wondered: at what exact point does human-made infrastructure blend with what we perceive as \u27nature\u27 and vice versa? This question led her to create \u27The Overlay,\u27 an artwork that uses AI to discover the hue where the natural and artificial merge – a critical take on Disneyland\u27s \u27go away green,\u27 the colour engineered to make theme park service infrastructure invisible
Uncanny Machines: Five Artists Probe AI\u27s Boundaries
No full textDesigned to provide transformative AI-fuelled experiences for audiences, and to present works that address key challenges in AI, the ‘Uncanny Machines’ commission explores how artists can push creative boundaries, how AI can be enriched or challenged by the Arts and the social implications of recent developments in AI