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Speaker bio
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa is an Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia, jointly appointed to the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a trained Sherpa anthropologist from Nepal. Her research, writing and pedagogy focuses on climate change and Indigeneity among Himalayan communities. She is currently involved in two collaborative projects. The first project, Transnational Sherpas, investigates what it means to be a Sherpa today. The second includes critical reflections on how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change can open up space for Indigenous peoples and local communities.
Abstract
This talk explores the case of Sherpa people as a transnational Indigenous community. It focuses on the Sherpas from the place also known as Nepal and their migration to what is also known as the United States. It begins with Sherpa migration history to examine transnational living and Indigeneity as every day realities of the people. To do so, it draws upon literature from Critical Indigenous Studies, Migration Studies, Anthropology, Geography, and History. The talk presents Indigeneity as an important concept to center realities of many who have been forced to migrate as a result of the current hegemonic, capitalist, and colonial systems including the nation-state framings in Asian and global contexts.
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