What comes to mind when you think of the Himalaya? For Jonathan, it’s a whole lot of questions! This week’s guest Dr. Mona Chettri gives us a glimpse at life in the eastern Himalaya, including how political borders have shaped the region; what’s changing amidst rapid development; and what the future might hold for young residents. Mona Chettri is a Post-Doctoral Research fellow at the Australia-India Institute, University of Western Australia. She has worked extensively on urbanisation, ethnicity, environmental politics and development in the eastern Himalayan borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling and east Nepal. She is the author of <a href="https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Ethnicity_and_Democracy_in_the_Eastern_Himalayan_Borderland_Constructing_Democracy/7093865" target="_blank">Constructing Democracy: Ethnicity and Democracy in the eastern Himalaya</a> (Amsterdam University Press, 2017) and co-editor of <a href="https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726238/development-zones-in-asian-borderlands" target="_blank">Development Zones in Asian Borderlands</a> (Amsterdam University Press, 2021). Her current research focuses on the intersections between gender, labour, urbanisation and infrastructure in the Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalaya, India and Himalayan immigrant labour in Australia.  You can follow Dr. Chettri on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/monagtk/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a> @monagtk, on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/mona_chettri" target="_blank">@mona_chettri</a>, and on Facebook at mona.gtk. For more information on the eastern Himalaya, check out <a href="https://www.theconfluencecollective.com" target="_blank">The Confluence Collective</a> and <a href="http://www.sikkimproject.org" target="_blank">Sikkim Project</a>. Join the conversation, and find out what former guests are up to, by following us on<a href="https://www.instagram.com/curiouswithjvn/?hl=en" target="_blank"> Instagram</a> and<a href="https://twitter.com/curiouswithjvn?lang=en" target="_blank"> Twitter</a> @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at<a href="https://www.jonathanvanness.com/gettingcurious" target="_blank"> JonathanVanNess.com</a>. Love listening to Getting Curious? Now, you can also watch Getting Curious—on Netflix! Head to<a href="http://www.netflix.com/gettingcurious" target="_blank"> netflix.com/gettingcurious</a> to dive in. Jonathan is on<a href="https://www.instagram.com/jvn/" target="_blank"> Instagram</a> and<a href="https://twitter.com/jvn" target="_blank"> Twitter</a> @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on<a href="https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.vanness/" target="_blank"> Facebook</a>.Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our socials are run and curated by<a href="https://middleseat.co" target="_blank"> Middle Seat Digital</a>. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIN; for more, head to<a href="http://www.thequincat.com" target="_blank"> TheQuinCat.com</a>. Getting Curious merch is available on<a href="https://www.podswag.com/collections/getting-curious-with-jonathan-van-ness" target="_blank"> PodSwag.com</a>.

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