robbiebarnett.bsky.social
Professor & Senior Research Associate, SOAS University of London; Affiliate Lecturer, Kings College London; Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia 1998-2018
👤 Joined on 17 October 2024
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@robbiebarnett.bsky.socialPetley first wrote about the landslide on 26 August, the day the debris flow struck, to explain what happened (and what didn't). eos.org/thelandslide...
Show PostHave you been keeping up with @davepetley.bsky.social's coverage of the debris flow in Nepal and Tibet over in our Landslide Blog? Here's a roundup. ⬇️
Show PostWhile you're making pumpkin pies and cranberry sauce, why not learn about how China has annexed Bhutan's territory, without a single shot fired? Check out our latest #Borderlands podcast episode with Japneet Kaur, @jleibold.bsky.social and @robbiebarnett.bsky.social
Show Post@robbiebarnett.bsky.social point on #Kyirong: became the main land crossing only after the 2015 earthquake shut Zhangmu. Trade concentrated into one narrow valley & settlement followed the logistics up the gorge. The risk exposure was built by a prior disaster www.thinkingtaiwan.net/article/100459
Show PostFieldwork in #Tibet is all but closed to outsiders. @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's The Quiet State asks what research looks like now: open-source reading of the state's own paperwork, & a frank account of what that method can't show. Just published, #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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