Flip-Flop, A Journey Through Globalisation’s Backroads
Caroline Knowles’ Flip Flop presents a novel option for a long-demanded alternative approach to globalisation research. In the tradition of […]
Heather Hindman
Dr. Heather Hindman is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at the University of Texas in Austin. Her recently published book, Mediating the Global: Expatria’s Forms and Consequences in Kathmandu (Stanford University Press), explores the bureaucratic constrictures of employment policy on elite transnational laborers in Nepal, as well as their everyday perpetuation of similar forms of “best practices” regulation. She has published work on Nepal’s labor and governmental links with South Korea, as well as articles that are part of an extended project on young Nepalis’ engagement with entrepreneurship and rejections of politics during the recent period of long-term provisionality in the country.