Seminar: Global Infrastructure - If You Build It, Will They Come?
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Students, Faculty, Staff, and General Public
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“If You Build It, Will They Come? The Dubious Case of Pokhara International Airport in Nepal” with Galen Murton
The College of Liberal Arts, the South Asia Institute, and the Department of Anthropology host Professor Murton, a human geographer with broad research and teaching interests in the politics of international development. His ongoing research project examines the social and geopolitical implications of infrastructure development across the Himalayan borderlands of Highland Asia, primarily between Tibet and Nepal.
He also studies local experiences with international aid in post-disaster landscapes and the impacts of Chinese aid and work programs at different scales. More recently, Murton has been asking what’s the matter with infrastructure in America and is curious about the possibilities for infrastructural justice in post-industrial national contexts. Related to these projects and his classroom instruction, Murton likes to teach and research with students in mountain regions of Asia and the Americas.