Himalayan Urbanism: Questions of ecological, economic and ethnographic identities (The case of depopulation in Uttarakhand) KU Leuven
The Himalayas are undergoing drastic transformations. The increasing modernisation and economic reform in the Himalayan communities has resulted in a newly imposed urban-rural dichotomy. While traditional rural settlements struggles with regards to livelihoods, declining socio-cultural practices and eventual depopulation, contemporary urban areas are places of economic and industrial growth. Urbanity is a relatively new notion in the ...