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Jelle J P Wouters is the Chair of the Himalayan Centre for Environmental Humanities at Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. He holds an MPhil (Distinction) in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Anthropology from the North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong, India. Prior to joining Royal Thimphu College, he taught at Sikkim Central University and was a visiting faculty at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tubingen, Germany. He is the author and editor of 11 books. These include Himalayan Climes and Multispecies Encounters (Routledge, 2024), The Routledge Companion to Northeast India (Routledge, 2023), Vernacular Politics in Northeast India (Oxford University Press, 2023), The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia (Routledge, 2022), Subaltern Studies 2.0: Being against the Anthropocene (Chicago University Press, 2022), and In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency (Oxford University Press, 2018).