Dr Dinesh Paudel one of the co-founder and Senior Research Fellow of SIAS is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Sustainable Development Department at Appalachian State University in USA. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography at Dartmouth College where he taught courses on Environment and Development, Geographies of Protest and Revolution, and Gender and Development. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of Minnesota in 2012 where he studied the historical connections between international development programs and the rise of Maoist uprisings in Nepal. Broadly, he is interested in understanding how development discourses originate and travel, and how they articulate with economic, ecological and political processes at multiple scales. One of his current research projects focuses in exploring the inherent relationships and complex entanglements between the rising Asian economies, growing environmental degradations and rapidly expanding rebellious politics in South Asia. Some of his publications include the following:
Paudel, D (forthcoming) “Community Forestry and Sustainability in Nepal”, in Nightingale, A., T. Bohler and B. Campbell (eds), Environment and Sustainability in a Globalizing World, Routledge
Paudel, D. (2017) Prismatic Village: the margin at the centre in Nepal’s Maoist revolution, Critical Sociology, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0896920517708340
Epstein, K., J. DiCarlo, R. Marsh, B. Adhikari, D. Paudel, I. Ray, and I. E. Måren (2018) Recovery and adaptation after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: a smallholder household perspective. Ecology and Society 23(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09909-230129
Reck G. and Paudel D. (2017) “The rise of nationalist capitalism and the future of imperialism,” Human Geography, 10 (2), pp. 82-86
Paudel, D. (2016) Reinventing the Commons: Community Forestry as Accumulation Without Dispossession in Nepal, The Journal of Peasant Studies, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2015.1130700
Paudel, D. (2016) The Double Life of Development: Empowerment, USAID and the Maoist Uprising in Nepal, Development and Change, 47 (5) pp. 1025–1050.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dech.12262/full
Paudel, D (2016) Ethnic Peasantry and Identity Politics in Nepal: liberation from, or restitution of, elite interest, Asian Ethnicity, 17 (4) pp. 548-565
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2016.1179567
Fluri, J., Jackson, P. and Paudel, D (2015) A New Development Technology? South Asian Biometrics and the Promise of State Security and Economic Opportunity, Geography Compass, 9 (10) pp. 539-549
