Mona Chettri

researcher

Dr. Mona Chettri is a Post-Doctoral Research fellow at the Australia-India Institute, University of Western Australia. She is also the Editorial Board Member of European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR). 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). 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. 

Chettri, Mona. 2023. What really makes a Sikkimese? Himal Magazine. 

Chettri, Mona. 2022. Next-gen Precarity: Gender and Informal Labor in the Eastern Himalaya. Gender, Technology and Development 26 (1): 96–115. 

Chettri, Mona and Michael Eilenberg (Eds.). 2021. Development Zones in Asian Borderlands. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 

Chettri, Mona. 2020. From Shangri-La to de-facto SEZ: Land grabs from ‘below’ in Sikkim, India. Geoforum 109: 57–66.

Chettri, Mona and Duncan McDuie-Ra. 2020. Delinquent Borderlands: Disorder and Exception in the Eastern Himalaya. Journal of Borderlands Studies 35 (5): 709-723.

Chettri, M. 2018. The Rowdies of Darjeeling. In Middleton, Townsend Sara Shneiderman (Eds.) Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, politics, environments, pp. 135-153. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chettri, Mona. 2017. Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland. Amsterdam University Press.

Chettri, Mona. 2017. Ethnic Environmentalism in the Eastern Himalaya. Economic & Political Weekly 52 (46). 

Chettri, Mona. 2017. Chungthang: An Emerging Urban Landscape in Sikkim. IIAS Newsletter 77: 36–37.

Chettri, Mona. 2015. Engaging the State: Ethnic Patronage and Cultural Politics in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 38 (4): 558–573.

Chettri, Mona. 2013. Choosing the Gorkha: at the crossroads of class and ethnicity in the Darjeeling hills. Asian Ethnicity 14 (3): 293–308.

Chettri, Mona. 2013. Ethnic politics in the Nepali public sphere: three cases from the eastern Himalaya (Doctoral dissertation, SOAS, University of London).

McDuie-Ra, Duncan and Mona Chettri. 2020. Concreting the frontier: Modernity and its entanglements in Sikkim, India. Political Geography, 76, 102089.

McDuie‐Ra, Duncan and Mona Chettri. 2018. Himalayan Boom Town: Rural–Urban Transformations in Namchi, Sikkim. Development and Change, 49(6), 1471-1494.