Tashi Ghale

Tashi Tsering Ghale is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at Washington University in Saint Louis, USA. His current Ph.D. research broadens Indigenous methodology and analyzes the intricate relationship of infrastructures, caste, & indigeneity configured in the imperial, colonial & neoliberal forces in the global South, i.e. Bentsang and Bharbhong, Dolpo (Nepal). His PhD fieldwork secured the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. Continuing his collective values, Tashi is also the co-founder of the Haatemalo Collective, one of Nepal's anti-caste organizations, imagining alternative pathways of liberation. Originally from Nepal, Tashi comes from the interconnected heritages of Dolpo and Mustang Indigenous Nations. He's also known as a journalist, an Indigenous activist, a documentary filmmaker, and a photographer. His photo from Dolpo participating in the World Photo Competition was recently awarded the McDonnell Academy prize.

 

Publications:

 

Tewa, Tashi. (2024). “Neo-Brahminical Knowledge Production: Upper Caste Scholars’ Books on Dolpo”. (soon to be published as a book chapter)

 

Dolpo-Ghale, Tashi Tsering. 2020. “Indigenous Peoples Movement and the Politics of Minority.” In Chhantyal, Gobinda & Rai, Tunga B. ed. 2020. Politics of Resistance: Indigenous Peoples and the Nepali State. Kathmandu: Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, pp. 159-184.

 

Ghale, Tashi. (2018). "Himalayan Indigenous Peoples in Local Election after 20 years: The Historical Gendered Perspective from Dolpo" In Calla, Pamela & Elsa Stamatapoulou (2018) (eds). Walking and Learning with Indigenous Peoples. US: Columbia University.  https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8RF7BBM/download

 

Dolpo, Tashi Tewa (2017, May) ‘Yangzom Tsering’s Life Story’. Manjushree Thapa (ed.) (2017). LA.LIT: A Literary Magazine, Volume 8. May 2017.

 

Dolpo-Ghale, Tashi Tsering (2016) "New Constitution and Indigenous Peoples of Nepal", In 'Constitution of Nepal: Evolution, Development & Debates' (2016). India: GB Books.

 

Dolpo, Tashi Tewa (December, 2016) ‘The Black Day: Yarsagunbu, the State, and the Struggle for Justice’. In IK: Other Ways of Knowing, Vol. 2, pp. 33-44.

 

Ghale, Tashi T. et. al. (2016). “Nepal: A Country of Minorities.” In The South Asia Collective. South Asia: State of Minorities Report 2016. India: BFC.  

 

'Dolpo' Ghale, Tashi Tsering (2015) 'Justice Denied to the IPs: an Analysis of Violence in Dolpo', In Journal of Indigenous Nationalities, Vol. 14, Number 5, pp. 144-169.

 

‘Dolpo’ Ghale, Tashi Tsering (2014) ‘Nepal’s Exclusionary Democracy’ In Journal of Indigenous Nationalities, Vol. 13, Number 5, pp. 153-177.

 

Dolpo-Ghale, Tashi Tsering. (June, 2017) ‘Hutt, Michael and Pratyoush Onta, eds. 2017. Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal’ In Studies in Nepali History and Society, Volume 22 Number 1, June 2017, pp. 32-36.

 

Dolpo, Tashi Ghale. 2015. “Interactions between Customary Institutions and Local Elections in Dolpo”. The Conference Proceedings, 2015. https://soscbaha.org/publication/conference-proceedings-2015/attachment/conference-proceedings-2015/