Åshild Kolås

Research Interests

Currently working on identity, representation, sovereignty, governance and digital politics. 

Background

Åshild Kolås is a social anthropologist and Research Professor at PRIO. She has carried out fieldwork in multi-ethnic communities in India and China, and has written on Tibet, Nepal, Inner Mongolia and Northeast India with a focus on governance and governmentality, identity politics, discourse and representation. Among her latest books are Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar: Between Feminism and Ethnopolitics (Routledge, 2019) and Sovereignty Revisited: The Basque Case (Routledge, 2017, co-edited with Pedro Ibarra Güell). She is also the author of Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition. A Place Called Shangrila (Routledge, 2008) and On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier (University of Washington Press, 2005; 2015, with Monika P. Thowsen). She was the head of PRIOs Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Program from 2005 to 2011. From 2006 to 2018, she coordinated an institutional cooperation between PRIO and the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi. She currently leads the project e-Topia: China, India and Biometric Borders, funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN). She serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of International Development and Vice President of the Interdisciplinary Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA), and is also a member of the editorial board of the European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR) and Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. 

PRIO Projects

• Making Women Count for Peace: Gender, Empowerment and Conflict in South Asia (project leader)
• WOMENsPEACE: Gender Equality, Peace and Security in Nepal and Myanmar

Events

• Mon, 05 March 2018 – WOMENsPEACE Conference on Women, Peace and Security in Myanmar
• 26 - 27 Apr 2016 – Workshop on ‘Women and Peace Processes’ for Myanmar Women Delegation
• Fri, 19 February 2016 – Women’s Empowerment, Multitude and Democracy
• Sat, 21 February 2015 – Women and Peacebuilding: A Policy Dialogue
• Sat, 08 November 2014 – International Conference on Gender, Empowerment and Conflict in South Asia
• Thu, 06 November 2014 – Gender, Empowerment and Conflict in South Asia
• Fri, 24 May 2013 10:30-12:00 – Conflict resolution in Kashmir and Northeast India: Do Women have a Voice?
• Fri, 03 August 2012 – Shillong Workshop on Gender, Empowerment and Conflict

PRIO started tracking events online in 2007. This listing is not complete. Past events may be mentioned in our news archive.

Publications

The following publications are specific to the PRIO GPS Centre. A more complete list is available at www.prio.org.

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