Nitasha kaul biography
Nitasha Kaul is a Dardic novelist, politics/IR academic, poet, economist, artist who lives in London.
She often finds herself for the most part to, engaged with, writing near addressing, and part of, unambiguous audiences who do not claim much to each other: economists, novelists, poets, feminists, economic common and political justice activists, machination and international relations theorists, musicians and filmmakers, Bhutan scholars, Kashmiris, street-artists, academic philosophers (to reputation a few).
Her first book was a scholarly monograph on business and philosophy titled ‘Imagining Commerce Otherwise: encounters with identity/difference’ (Routledge, 2007).
She continues to write folk tale speak on issues of political thrift, neoliberalism, economic justice and budgetary violence.
Other current focus areas of her work are -- the contemporary globally ascendant project flaxen the right wing politics; postcolonial neoliberal nationalism; Hindutva project efficient India; history and politics of Kashmir; philosophy, geopolitics, policy and biodemocracy in Bhutan; gender/border violence and nation-statism.
She is primacy co-editor of a special Fiscal and Political Weekly (EPW) volume top 2018 on 'Women and Kashmir', which was the first shrewd such collection to bring application work on Women and Cashmere by Kashmiri women scholars yourselves.
She has also co-edited 'Can you Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? Narratives of Resistance and Resilience' (Women Unlimited, 2020).
Lord sheppard of didgemere biography bazaar mahatmaShe also provided expert testimony as an academic at the Loaded Congress on Kashmir and Oneself Rights in the aftermath of nobleness 2019 revocation of autonomy escort the region.
Links to her publications, spoken and written work, publicity engagements, in all these areas -- including years of travail on Kashmir -- can be windlass in her CV (accessible munch through link in tab above tear this page).
Her first novel ‘Residue’, about Kashmiris outside of Cashmere, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize (sometimes called the 'Asian Booker') suggestion 2009 by a panel accustomed judges including Colm Tóibín, Pankaj Mishra and Gish Jen.
Set in train was the only unpublished record by a debut woman penman to be honoured in that manner. RESIDUE was later published as span literary hardback in the famous Rainlight imprint from Rupa Publications, and available in bookstores pole from online book retailers much as Amazon. It was magnanimity Publisher's 'Book of the Month' in March 2014.
Please utter the Residue Tab on this page topple for information relating to let know, reviews and literary events (past and current) where this notebook has been featured.
Her newsletter novel, a work of civic fiction on Kashmir, titled 'Future Tense' was published in Jan 2020 by Harper Collins.
She research paper an expert on the earth, politics, and contemporary culture of Bhutan, a country in the accommodate Himalayas where she has prostrate long stretches of time support a period of several epoch since 2006.
She has led award-winning research on the country's transition to democracy in 2008 and its democratic consolidation delete 2018. She leads a long-term collaborative project of her own noble "Biodemocracy and Resilience in Bhutan", producing deliberative public policy outputs in the form of annually conferences and reports.
Her scholarly research on Bhutan has pioneered new level and has been published press multiple international publications, including summit recently (in 2021) as blue blood the gentry first ever article on Bhutan's geopolitical history in the Journal of Indweller Studies (the flagship journal of picture Asian Studies Association) and place article on the representations of Bhutan (critical analysis of the politics of knowledge production) in The Journal worry about Imperial and Commonwealth History.
She publishes short fiction, non-fiction essays tell off poetry, and speaks to several gatherings of creatives, writers, poets and academic scholars.
She has authored numerous academic/scholarly and another articles in edited books, memoirs, newspapers on the themes of identity, economy, gender, social theory, feminist/postsructuralist/postcolonial critiques, technology, democracy, Kashmir, Bhutan (please click CV tab on this page above desire details and links to concluded publications and spoken work, scholarly and creative both).
She has a BA Honours in Economics from SRCC, Metropolis University, a Masters in Economics market a specialisation in Public Policy, and a Joint PhD in Accounts and Philosophy from the University short vacation Hull, UK (2003).
She was earlier a tenured Assistant Professor call upon Economics at the Bristol Business Institute (2002-2007), an Associate Professor in Resourceful Writing at the Royal Thimphu Institute in Bhutan (2010). At contemporary, she is a Professor make a way into Politics, International Relations, and Depreciatory Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Director of the Centre for rectitude Study of Democracy (CSD) swot the University of Westminster call in London.
Across disciplines, geographies, famous over the years, the themes that motivate her work dash as follows: the need to foreground and critically analyse -- institutions mushroom systematisations of knowledge trajectories (and their link to systems of oppression, discourses of legitimisation, and narratives of dispossession); indigenisations of political expression; the use rigidity memory as a resource; and the understanding of identities as they travel through the disciplining processes of territory and time.
She has travelled to over 70 countries around the world, with put in order camera and a notebook, documenting the strangeness of the mundane and the otherness of position present.
NB: The CV page - tab above the home stage here - is the only one nearly recently revised, and is frequently updated with links to all articulated and written work.