Lab member Aditya Kiran Kakati, an early-postdoctoral mobility fellow at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and SOAS, London University recently published “Airy Infrastructures: Anxieties and Eastern Himalayan ‘Remoteness’ (1945–1962)” in Collection no. 012: Infrastructural Anxieties of the open-access journal Roadsides.
About the Article
The publication explores experiments with aerial technology in the post-WWII Sino-Indian Himalayan borderlands, spanning up to the Sino-Indian war in 1962. Aditya uses a “voluminous” approach to sovereignty to analyse why the postcolonial Indian state upheld colonial-era policies of light infrastructural connectivity, perpetuating the perception of certain regions as “remote.” This study provides a fascinating look into the intersections of infrastructure, geopolitics, and governance in one of the world’s most complex border areas.
Explore the article on Roadsides: Read it here