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Mw. dr. C.H. (Tina) Harris

Faculteit der Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen
Programmagroep: Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas
Fotograaf: Bram Belloni
Bezoekadres
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
  • Kamernummer:B5.05
Postadres
  • Postbus 15509
    1001 NA Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    Biography

    Tina Harris received her Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2009 from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and is a member of the AISSR Moving Matters research group.

    Research Interests

    Her main research interests include aviation, infrastructures, globalization in Asia, and the movement of people and goods across borders. She has conducted field research in Tibet, Nepal, India, and the Netherlands, and has published articles on the pressures of controlling air traffic, borderland airports, and competing discourses over the reopening of a Sino-Indian mountain border. She is author of Geographical Diversions: Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions (UGa Press 2013), a book that examines how state power is both articulated and circumvented by cross-border traders in the Himalayas.

    Personal Website

    tinaharris.org Tina on Twitter

    Geographical Diversions

    http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/geographical_diversions 

    Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India. How might we make connections between seemingly mundane daily life and more abstract levels of global change? Geographical Diversions focuses on two generations of traders who exchange goods such as sheep wool, pang gdan aprons, and more recently, household appliances. Exploring how traders "make places," Harris examines the creation of geographies of trade that work against state ideas of what trade routes should look like. She argues that the tensions between the apparent fixity of national boundaries and the mobility of local individuals around such restrictions are precisely how routes and histories of trade are produced. The economic rise of China and India has received attention from the international media, but the effects of major new infrastructure at the intersecting borderlands of these nationstates—in places like Tibet, northern India, and Nepal—have rarely been covered. Geographical Diversions challenges globalization theories based on bounded conceptions of nation-states and offers a smaller-scale perspective that differs from many theories of macroscale economic change.
  • Research

    Current Research Projects

    I am working on a new research project on aviation that will investigate how people working in air traffic management, route planning, and operations sectors are dealing with the recent shifts in global air travel against the backdrop of increasing climate concerns. I also have a number of articles (for instance, "Air Pressure: Temporal Hierarchies in Nepali Aviation;" "Trading Places: New Economic Geographies of Trade Across Himalayan Borderlands;" "Himalayan Border Crossings: Reopenings and Restrictions") and a full-length book manuscript (Geographical Diversions) based on my research on contemporary trade and trade routes in Tibet.

  • Related Activities

    Networks and Organizations

    I am currently the co-chair of the Board of the International Institute for Asian Studies, and an academic coordinator of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN), which will hold its next conference in Seoul, Korea in June 2022.

    Asian Borderlands Research Network ABRN Facebook Page

    Upcoming and Recent Conferences, Invited Lectures, and Invited Workshops

    • “Aviation and Borders in the Himalayas” Transport Studies Unit, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, 13 February, 2020
    • “Manufacturing Aeromobilities: Infrastructures, Displacement, and the Extra-sectoral Costs of Air-Enabled Worlds” with Weiqiang Lin, Royal Geographical Society Annual Meeting, 27-29 August 2019
    • “Development Zones in Asia,” Aarhus University, 17-19 June, 2019
    • "Air Pressure: Time and Aviation in Nepal," UBC Himalaya Program, University of British Columbia, 12 October, 2018.
    • "What Can We Learn from Ethnographies of Infrastructure?," Global Challenges in Transport, Oxford Leadership Programme/Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, 7 September, 2018.
    • “Lag: Temporality in the Himalayan Borderlands,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 30 November-4 December, 2017.
    • “4D Bordering in the Himalayas,” Asian Borderlands Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, 12-14 December, 2016.
    • “Skirmish Season: Bordering Practices in the Himalayas,” Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University, New York, 28 January, 2016
    • "Borderland Airports, Cosmopolitan Belongings," As sociation of American Geographers Annual Conference, Chicago, April 21, 2015
    • "Himalayan Border Crossings" Invited Lecture, Development Studies Lecture Series, SOAS, October 15, 2013
    • Invited Keynote Lecture, "Tracing Connections – Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Multilocalities", Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universität Berlin, 20-21 June, 2013
    • "The Yak's Tail: On Contemporary Changes in Trade in the Himalayas", International Association for Tibetan Studies 13th Seminar, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, July 20-27, 2013.
    • "The Mobile and the Material in Sino-Indian Borderlands," American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 14-18, 2012
    • "Yak Tails, Rice Cookers, and Changing Corridors in Asian Borderlands" 3rd Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN), Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Oct 11-13, 2012.
    • "Haunting the Border and Flooding the Market: Trade and the Indo-Tibetan Interface," Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) Himalayan Studies Conference, St. Paul,Minnesota, Oct 28-30 2011 
    • Workshop on Informality and Borders, Comparative Research on Regional Integration and Social Cohesion Conference, University of Johannesburg, November 30-December 2, 2011 
    • "Nature, Capital, and Rule," Symposium on Environment, Society, and Development: Accumulation, Securitization and the Politics of Rule, NUI Galway, August 23, 2011
    • "'A Geographical Excuse' and the Lhasa-Kalimpong Trade Route," MIASU Lecture Series, University of Cambridge, March 1, 2011.
    • "'Zomia,' the Southeast Asian and Himalayan Massifs: Takes on Highland Transnational Spaces," Asian Borderlands Conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Nov 5-7, 2010
    • "Cartographic Anxiety: The Lhasa-Kalimpong Trade Route and the Production of Space," for a panel on "The Production of Space: Social and Environmental Change Amidst Development in Tibetan Areas," International Association of Tibetan Studies Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Aug 15-21, 2010
    • "Qualitative Research Methods in Anthropology," Ph.D. Seminar in Qualitative Research, Department of Mass Communications, Texas Tech University, April 9, 2010
    • "Dispossession, Geographical Blindspots, and the Quest for Coherence in the Indo-Sino-Nepal Borderlands," Panel on Axes of Dispossession: Conflict, Identity, and the Neoliberal Economy in South Asia, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Dec 2-6, 2009
    • Antipode Summer Institute for the Geographies of Justice II, University of Manchester/University of Leeds, May 17-22, 2009
    • "Geopolitics and Insecurity II: Encountering Productions of State Security" and "The 2008 Tibetan Uprising: Reflections One Year Later," Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27, 2009.

     

  • Teaching and Supervision

    Selected Courses

    Technologies and Infrastructures (BA Anthropology)

    Theory of Ethnographic Research/Fieldwork Seminar (MA Research Masters Social Sciences)

    Perceptions of Asia (BA Anthropology)

    Designing Fieldwork (MA Anthropology)

    Comparative History and Sociology (BA Anthropology)

    Mobility, Migration, Security (MA International Development Studies)

    Research Methods and Design (MA Contemporary Asian Studies)

    Thesis Seminar (MA Contemporary Asian Studies)

     

  • Publicaties

    2021

    2020

    2018

    • Harris, T. (2018). Cross-Border Commodities: Processual Histories, Commodity Chains, and the Yak Tail Trade. In A. Horstmann, M. Saxer, & A. Rippa (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands (pp. 106-113). (Routledge handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315688978-9 [details]

    2017

    2016

    2015

    2014

    • Harris, T. (2014). Tracing trade: contemporary transformations of space and place in the Himalayas. In H. Alff, & A. Benz (Eds.), Tracing connections: explorations of spaces and places in Asian contexts (pp. 41-52). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin. [details]
    • Harris, T. (2014). Yak tails, Santa Claus, and transnational trade in the Himalayas. The Tibet Journal, 39(1), 145-155. [details]

    2013

    2012

    2008

    2007

    • Harris, C. H. (2007). Towards a Geographical Anthropology of Trade in the Himalayas. In Michael Gervers, Uradyn Bulag, & Gillian Long (Eds.), Traders and Trade Routes of Central and Inner Asia, Then and Now (pp. 189-206). (Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia; No. 8). University of Toronto.

    2017

    2012

    2015

    2008

    2007

    • Harris, C. H., & Rapport, E. (2007). [Review of: Music of the Silk Road; The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan]. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 8(3), 275-277.

    Prijs

    • Harris, T. (2015). Shortlist - ICAS Book Prize, Best Book in the Social Sciences.

    Lidmaatschap

    • Harris, C. H. (2014). member of the IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies) Board, IIAS.
    • Harris, C. H. (2013). Editorial Board, Himalaya, Himalaya Journal.

    Mediaoptreden

    • Harris, T. (09-02-2021). Sustaining trade routes in the Himalayan borderlands. Sustaining trade routes in the Himalayan borderlands.

    Spreker

    • Harris, T. (invited speaker) (12-10-2018). Air Pressure: Time and Aviation in Nepal, University of British Columbia.
    • Harris, T. (invited speaker) (7-9-2018). What Can We Learn from Ethnographies of Infrastructure?, University of Oxford.
    • Harris, C. H. (invited speaker) (29-1-2016). Transnational Trade in the Himalayas, Columbia University, New York..
    • Harris, C. H. (invited speaker) (28-1-2016). Skirmish Season: Bordering Practices in the Himalayas, Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University, New York.
    • Harris, T. (invited speaker) (7-12-2015). Time, Space, and Transition in the Himalayan Borderlands, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Colloquium Series, Guwahati, Assam, India.
    • Harris, T. (invited speaker) (17-8-2015). Introductory Lecture on Asia, at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Den Haag.

    Andere

    • Harris, T. (other) (31-10-2020). Lecture Performance at Mediamatic (other).
    • Harris, T. (participant) (27-8-2019 - 29-8-2019). Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society. Manufacturing Aeromobilities: Infrastructures, Displacement, and the Extra-sectoral Costs of Air-Enabled Worlds” with Weiqiang Lin (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Harris, T. (participant) (13-8-2018 - 15-8-2018). Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference, Bishkek. Conference Organiser (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Harris, C. H. (organiser) (2016). Asian Borderlands Research Conference, Kathmandu, Kathmandu, Nepal (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Harris, C. H. (participant) (8-12-2014 - 10-12-2014). at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Organizer: Asian Borderlands Conference (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Schendel, H. W. (other) & Harris, C. H. (other) (2014). Book series editor: Asian Borderlands, Amsterdam University Press (other).
    • van Schendel, H. W. (organiser) & Harris, C. H. (organiser) (16-11-2013 - 18-11-2013). Conference 'Anomie in Asia', University of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan). Co-organiser (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Harris, C. H. (participant) (15-10-2013). Development Studies Lecture Series, SOAS, SOAS, London. Invited Lecture, "Himalayan Border Crossings" (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Harris, C. H. (participant) (20-6-2013). Crossing Borders Conference, Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universität Berlin. Invited Keynote Lecture: "Tracing Connections - Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Multilocalities" (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Harris, C. H. (participant) (6-4-2013). Tracing Transnational Trade in 20th Century Kalimpong, University of Toronto-Scarborough. Invited Lecture, "Lamas, Spies, Gentleman Scholars, and Trans-Himalayan Traders: The Meeting of Religion, Colonialism, Politics, and Economics in (…) (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Harris, C. H. (participant) (11-10-2012 - 13-10-2013). Organizer: 3rd Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network, Singapore (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

    2020

    2017

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