Karine Gagné is an anthropologist engaged in ethnographic research primarily focused on the Himalayas. Her work examines critical issues such as climate change, ethics of care, human-animal relationships, state formation, citizenship, and climate knowledge. Her current research on climate change explores how communities’ capacity to respond to environmental challenges intersects with their recognition and inclusion by the state, as well as with the production of climate knowledge. Her research on human-animal relationships investigates how state production affect conservation efforts and human-animal relationships. She also examines the colonial legacies embedded within wildlife photography. She is the author of “Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas” (University of Washington Press, 2019), which was awarded the James Fisher Prize by the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.

Research

• Climate change
• Himalayas
• Anthropology
• Human-animal relationships
• Conservation