Publications

Books Published

Tamang, Sangay. 2024. “The Thirsty Hills: “Rain Clime” and Anthropogenic Drought in the Darjeeling Himalayas,” in Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounter, edited by Jelle J. P. Wouter and Dan Symer Yu, published as a part of a publishing workshop by Trans Himalayan Environmental Humanities Group. (Received Fieldwork grant from Himalayan University Consortium and Royal Thimpu College, Bhutan, for this research paper).

Tamang, Sangay. 2023. “Rearing the Rare”: History, Co-existence and Contestation of Wildlife Conservation in the Singalila National Park, Darjeeling, India”. In Animal-Human Interactions in Anthropocene Asia, edited by Victor Teo: Routledge.

Cintia Velázquez-Marroni, Jessica Urwin, Nicolo Paolo Ludovice, Bryan Umaru Kauma, Sangay Tamang, and Jayson Maurice Porter. “Future Directions in Environmental History”. In The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History, edited by Emily O'Gorman, William San Martín, Mark Carey, Sandra Swart. Routledge (December 2023): The Book was launched in the roundtable discussion at the Fourth World Congress of Environmental History, 19th to 23rd August 2024, Oulu, Finland.

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

Subba, Yashika and Tamang Sangay (2024). “Behind the Leaves: Climate Change and Women in Darjeeling’s Tea Garden”. II Polo (The Pole). Italian Polar Geographical Institute.

Tamang, Sangay (2022). Environmentalism in Darjeeling Hills: An Enquiry, in a special issue on Storying multi-species relationships, commoning and the state in the Himalayas (edited by Erik De Maaker and Dan Symer Yu) European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, Vol 58, 1-22.

Tamang, Sangay (2022). Gorkhas and their land (?) Reclaiming Land Through Ethnicity in Darjeeling Himalayas in the special issue on Multivocal Spaces: An Exploration of Everyday Life in Darjeeling (edited/leads by Dipti Tamang, Rinzi Lama, and Sarah Besky Himalayas, The journal for the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Vol 41, no. 1, 91-104.

Tamang, Sangay and Ngamjahao Kipgen (2022). “Land” as a Site of Contestation: Empire, Identity, and Belongingness in the Darjeeling Himalayas, Ethnicities (Sage: Impact Factor: 2.505). doi: 10.1177/14687968221101400

Tamang, Sangay and Ngamjahao, Kipgen (2019). Rethinking Hill Valley Binary: Methodological Nationalism and the trends of writing sociology in India, Sociological Bulletin. Vol 68, No. 3, 325-341.

Tamang Sangay and Hoineilhing Sitlhou. (2018). Identity, Contestation and Ethnic Revivalism among Nepalis in Darjeeling, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 53, Issue 1, 33- 39.

Tamang, Sangay, (2018). Becoming Twenty-First Century Tribes: Between Gorkha and tribal identity in Darjeeling Hills, Indian Anthropologist Vol 48, Issue 1, 61-77.

Collaborative publications from summer school and academy:

How activist should scientists be? THESys Discussion Paper No. 2021-1 published by Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/23739/THESysDP-2021-1-How_activist_should_scientists_be.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Report on the “Research Network Working Futures” and the Centre Marc Bloch Summer Academy Sustainable Work published on the WIKO website 2021: https://www.wiko-berlin.de/ext_uploads/tx_workshops/Summer_Academy_Sustainable_Work_2021_-_Report.pdf

Other Publications:

Tamang, Sangay. “Anthropocene in the Himalayas” Economic and Political Weekly (Book Review Section. 2023, Vol. 58, Issue 23, pp. 29-31))
Mona Chettri, ‘Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Constructing Democracy,’ Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. In Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 19(4), 2018: 552–555 (https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2018.1442710).

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

Tamang, Sangay. 2024. Presented the paper “Future Directions in Environmental History” at the Fourth World Congress of Environmental History roundtable discussion, 19th to 23rd August 2024, Oulu, Finland (Online)

Tamang, Sangay. 2023. Presented the paper “Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The politics of waste in Darjeeling Hills” in XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, June 25^th to July 1^st, Melbourne, Australia.

Tamang, Sangay. 2022. Cradle of Transformation: Environment, Development and Ethnicity in the Eastern Himalayas. In International Conference on Environmental Change and Socio-Cultural Transformations in India, IIT Roorkee (as part of 175 years of IIT Roorkee celebration), 22nd and 23rd September.

Tamang, Sangay. 2022. Participated and presented the paper titled “Water in Darjeeling Himalayas: More than Human Approach” in the Water Academy for Youth (WAY) under Global Water Partnership South Asia (GWP-SAS), 26^th September to 26^th November (Online).

Tamang, Sangay. 2021. Participated and presented the paper titled “Integrating Labour in Environmental Conservation: Reflection from Tea Garden and Forest History of Darjeeling Himalayas, India” in the Summer Academy on Sustainable Work organised by Research Network Working Futures and Centre Marc Bloch, Germany, May 26 to 29, 2021 (Online Mode).

Tamang, Sangay. 2019. Participated and presented a poster titled “Governing the Nature: Environmental Conflicts and community formation in the Eastern Himalayas ”in THESys Summer School on Transformative Human–Environment Research & Participatory Methods: From Co-Production to Co-Producing at Integrative Research Institute on Transformation of Human–Environment System, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 16 – 21 September.

Tamang, Sangay. 2019. Red Panda and the National Park: Dissentient, Discontent and the politics of conservation in the Singalila National Park, Academic Workshop on “Human-Animal Interactions in Anthropocene China and Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches”, University of Hong Kong, 4^th– 5^th December.

Tamang, Sangay. 2019. [Un]equal Sociology: Methodological Nationalism and the trends of Writing Sociology in India, Young Scholars International Conference on “Margins and Connections”, Special Centre for the study of North East India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 7 and 8 February.

Tamang, Sangay. 2018. Remembering the year 1955: Histories, Memories and Trade Union movement in Darjeeling Tea Landscape, Tea Plantation Economy India, Tata Institute of Social Science Guwahati Campus, 7–8 December. (Co-author Kumar Chettri).

Tamang, Sangay. 2018. Life in the Mountain Villages: Understanding the Concept of “borders” in the Singalila National Park, Young Scholar Workshop Borders and Regionalism in South Asia, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asian University, New Delhi, Association for Borderland Studies, 25^th August.

Tamang, Sangay. 2018. Historicizing the Himalayas: Methodological Nationalism and the trend of Writing Sociology in India, Subjugated Knowledges, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Conference, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1^st to 3^rd February

Tamang, Sangay. 2018. Rethinking State-Society Relationship in the Eastern Himalayas: Exploring the notion of Samaj in Darjeeling Hills. Graduate Seminar, North East Annual Conference, Tezpur University, Assam, 8-9 January.

Tamang, Sangay. 2018. Convey a Panel titled “Colonialism and its Encounter: Rethinking the history of Nepalis in the Brahmaputra Valley and beyond” and presented a paper titled Becoming Twenty-First Century Tribes: From Gorkha to Tribal Identity, in North East India Annual Conferences, Locating North East India: Human Mobility, Resource Flows and Spatial Linkages, Tezpur University, Assam, 10–12 January.

Tamang, Sangay. 2017. Understanding Gorkhaland: Mapping the genesis of “crisis” in Darjeeling Hills, Humanities and Social Sciences, In-House Seminar Series, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.

Tamang, Sangay. 2017. MULIKI AIN: An invisible burden for Nepalis in India. The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, 26– 28 July

Tamang, Sangay. 2017. Identity, Contestation and Ethnic Revivalism among the Nepali/Gorkhas in Darjeeling Hills. National Seminar on Nation, Community, and Citizenship in Contemporary India, organised by National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, 9th—10th January 2017 on the birth centenary of M.N. Srinivas.

Tamang, Sangay. 2016. Is ‘Recognition’ meaning Nationalism: Understanding Nepali nationalism outside Nepal. RAW.CON 6TH Annual Conference, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad: Understanding Nation: Issues and Comparative Ideas in Contemporary Context, 28-30 September.

Tamang, Sangay. 2015. State and Ethnicity: Politics of Hegemony and Alternative Contestation. National Seminar on State Politics in India: Emerging Issues and Challenges organized by the Department of Political Science, ST, Joseph’s College, Darjeeling, in collaboration with the Department of HSS, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, Assam

Tamang, Sangay. 2015. State and Tribal Development Board: Entangled formation over the Politics of ST status in Darjeeling hills, West Bengal. International Conference on Contesting ‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Identities of Caste, Tribe, Gender and Beyond, organized by the Department of History & Department of Anthropology Assam University (A Central University), Diphu Campus (AUDC).