PhD defence by Rune Bolding Bennike

Title: Governing the Hills. Imperial Landscapes, National Territories, and Production of Place between Naya Nepal and Incredible India

Resumé: "In his dissertation, Rune Bennike asks what happens when an increasingly globalised production of places collides with a resilient national order of things in the Himalayan hills. He investigates movements for the establishment of a Limbuwan and Gorkhaland state on either side of the border between eastern Nepal and north-eastern India arguing that these collisions bring out old problems as well as new opportunities in relation to the aspiration for a larger say in local decision-making: While global connections can provide normative leverage to demands for increased local autonomy, the consequence of global connectivity might also be new imperial arrangements of government at distance. Through his engagement with this area, Rune argues that we need to rethink the spatiality of government in order to understand the contemporary conditions for government as well as local autonomy".

Assessment committee:
Associate Professor Noel Parker (chair), University of Copenhagen
Professor Srirupa Roy, Göttingen University, Tyskland
Professor Allaine Cerwonka, Central Eurepean University, Budapest, Ungarn

Time:
Friday, 24 May 2013, 14.00-16.30
Kindly note that the defence will start precisely at the announced time.

Venue:
Centre for Health and Society, Department of Political Science, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen K., room 4.2.26

The thesis can be purchased for DKK 150 at 'Akademisk Boghandel'.