Dr Nitasha Kaul

University of Westminster

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start date: June 07, 2009
end date: August 19, 2009

Research School of Humanities
College of Arts and Social Sciences

Short biography:

Dr Nitasha Kaul is a widely-travelled writer, poet, and an academic at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster in London, UK. Her latest book is titled ‘Imagining Economics Otherwise: encounters with identity/difference’ (2007). Her next book is ‘Snapshots of a Changing Kingdom: Democracy and Identity in Bhutan’. She has visited Bhutan several times and was there during the entire general election campaign in 2008. Her comments and articles on Bhutan have been published in the Guardian, Times of India, Kulturaustausch, CSD Bulletin, Edinburgh Journal, Economic and Political Weekly. She has lectured on Bhutan at Stanford University, Harvard University, and University of California Berkeley, Bhutan Society of the UK, United Nations Association, Royal University of Bhutan, and London School of Economics and Political Science. A Bhutan expert, she has been interviewed about the country on film, Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) TV, radio, and in print. Details of her publications and expertise in other research areas (critical political economy, philosophy, feminism, diaspora, postcolonial theory) can be found online or at http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-3011

Current Research Projects:

Challenges of Democratisation in the Himalayan Region: Democracy and Identity in Bhutan