Mona Chettri

Mona Chettri is a researcher from Gangtok, Sikkim. She received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 2014. 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 Constructing Democracy: Ethnicity and Democracy in the eastern Himalaya (Amsterdam University Press, 2017) and co-editor of Development Zones in Asian Borderlands (Amsterdam University Press, 2021). She is also the series editor of the Eastern Himalaya Series, an academic publication platform for local research and researchers. Recently, she has initiated the Reading Himalaya an independent Research and Policy Consultancy.  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.