Indiana University Bloomington
Graduate Student, Anthropology
Thesis Title: Waiting for Disaster: Ecology, Politics, and Religion in Rural Tajikistan
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Dr. Nazif Shahrani
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About
I am a PhD student in the Anthropology Department at Indiana University. I have just returned from extensive fieldwork in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan. I worked in two rural mountain and one semi-urban plains community (as a comparison) looking at the politics of resource use as well as perceptions of environmental, social, and economic risks and the interplay among them. I also examine the leadership and structures of authority in the communities including the roles played by government, religious and informal (elders) as well as development actors and other external actors that impact the decision-making process at the local level. I am working on my dissertation now tentatively titled "Living with Uncertainty: Local Perceptions of Risk and Strategies for Coping in Post-Soviet Mountain Communities of Tajikistan"
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