RESEARCH
INDIGENEITY
INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE | ANTHROPOLOGY OF SHERPA
SPECIAL ISSUE
Guest editor with Charlotte Eubanks. 2018. Special Issue on “Indigeneity” for Verge: Studies in Global Asias 4 (2). University of Minnesota Press.
INDIGENOUS EXPERIENCE
Sherpa, P. Y., Chakraborty, R., & Carrara, A. (2024). 10 Indigeneity. Introducing Human Geographies, 129.
Eubanks, C., & Sherpa, P. Y. (2018). We Are (Are We?) All Indigenous Here, and Other Claims about Space, Place, and Belonging in Asia. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 4(2), vi-xiv.
Sherpa, P. Y. (2018). Introduction: Continuing Community Collaborations and the Transient Digital. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 4(2), 54-56.
Sherpa, P. Y. (2009). Indigenous movements: identification of indigenous concerns in Nepal. MA thesis.(Washington State University).
PUBLIC
Sherpa, P.Y. (2023). “Questioning Indigeneity,” The Mail, The New Yorker, March 13, 2023.
ANTHROPOLOGY OF SHERPA
Sherpa, P. Y. (2022). Ethnographies of the Sherpas in the High Himalaya: Themes, trajectories, and beyond. In Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia (pp. 182-194). Routledge.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2019). Preserving Sherpa Language and Culture in New York. Book 2.0 9(1).
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2019). "Indigenous Sherpa Religion," in Marine Carrin, Michel Boivin, Gerard Toffin, Paul Hockings, Raphael Rousseleau, Tanka Subba and Harald Lambs-Tyche (eds.), Brill's Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous People of South Asia Online.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2017). "Community and Resilience among Sherpas in the Post-Earthquake Everest Region," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 37 : No. 2 , Article 13.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2017). "Review of Sherpa: Trouble on Everest by Jennifer Peedom,"HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 37 : No. 1 , Article 32.
PUBLIC
September 2021 “Mountain As Metaphor: A Future of Multiple Worldviews” in Alpinist 75.
December 29, 2017 The New York Times "Letter to the Editor" about the article "Deliverance from 27,000 feet"
September 2017 "Explaining Ethnography in the Field: A Conversation Between Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Carole McGranahan" for Savage Minds [Anthrodendum].
May 2017 "Looking in the Mirror (Part 1, 2, and 3)" for Savage Minds [Anthrodendum].
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2007) “Identification of New Tourism Product, Solukhumbu.” Pro-Poor Rural Tourism Initiatives and its Sustainability in Nepal. TRPAP-UNDP, Nepal
MEDIA
March 2020 "The Mounting Risks of Summiting Mount Everest." Top of Mind with Julie Rose on BYU Radio.
May 2019 "Sherpas on Everest: 'This is a Sacred Mountain. We Need to Respect It." The Daily Beast.
April 2019 "The Story about Dead Bodies on Everest that Got 3m Hits." Over to You on BBC World Service.
May 2014 "Everest on Edge." The Stream on Al Jazeera English discuss the 2014 spring disaster on Mt. Everest.
April 2014 "When You Call Someone a Sherpa, What Does that Mean?" PRI's The World.
April 2014 "Deaths on Everest Put Spotlight on Sherpa Labor," interview by Rob Verger for Newsweek.
April 2014 "Everest Shrugged: Why the deadliest day on the world’s tallest mountain won’t change the lives of Nepal’s sherpas," interview by Kyle Knight for Foreign Policy.
HUMAN DIMENSION OF CLIMATE CHANGE
ADAPTATION TO JUSTICE | INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES
SPECIAL REPORT
Contributing Author, Chapter 17 “Decision Making Options for Managing Risk” of the IPCC WGII Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).
Contributing Author, Chapter 2 “High Mountain Areas” of the IPCC Special Report on the Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).
CLIMATE ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE JUSTICE
Sharon Stein, Cash Ahenakew, Will Valley, Pasang Y. Sherpa, Eva Crowson, Tabitha Robin, Wilson Mendes, and Steve Evans. 2024. Toward more ethical engagements between Western and Indigenous sciences. FACETS. 9: 1-14.
Chakraborty, R., Rampini, C., & Sherpa, P.Y. (2023) Mountains of Inequality:encountering the politics of climate adaptation across the Himalaya. Ecology & Society. 28 (4).
Johnson, Leigh and Mikulewicz, Michael and Bigger, Patrick and Chakraborty, Ritodhi and Cunniff, Abby and Griffin, P. Joshua and Guermond, Vincent and Lambrou, Nicole and Mills-Novoa, Megan and Neimark, Benjamin and Nelson, Sara and Rampini, Costanza and Sherpa, Pasang Yangjee and Simon, Gregory, Intervention: The Invisible Labor of Climate Change Adaptation (November 10, 2022).
Chakraborty, R., & Sherpa, P. Y. (2021). From climate adaptation to climate justice: Critical reflections on the IPCC and Himalayan climate knowledges. Climatic Change. 167(3): 1-14.
Chakraborty, R., Gergan, M. D., Sherpa, P. Y., & Rampini, C. (2021). A plural climate studies framework for the Himalayas. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 51: 42-54.
PUBLIC
May 2019 "Photographing Transformation and Ethnographic Predicaments in Nepal's Himalaya" for Glacier Hub.
May 2015 "Nepali Villagers Trapped Under Threat of Glacier Floods" for Glacier Hub.
September 2014 "Flooded with Memories in Nepal" for Glacier Hub.
MEDIA
September 2019 "Human Dimensions of Climate Change in the Himalaya: An interview with Anthropologist Pasang Yangjee Sherpa" for Alpinist.
September 2019 "More than symbols: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa on cultural invisibility," article (part of a series the experiences of Himalayan Sherpas adapting to a warmer world) by Natasha Vizcarra for Landscape News.
August 2018 Heart of Conservation: Stories from the Wild Podcast with Lalitha Krishnan in Mussoorie, India.
October 2017 Alpinist Podcast on "Mountaineering and Climate Change." Associate Editor Paula Wright discusses climate change impacts on mountain environments with climbers and researchers, including Mark Carey, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Alison Criscitiello.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Sherpa, P. Y., & Puschiasis, O. (2023). A Reflexive Approach to Climate Change Engagement with Sherpas from Khumbu and Pharak in Northeastern Nepal (Mount Everest Region). In Anthropology and Climate Change (pp. 224-241). Routledge.
Sherpa, P. Y. (2021). Nepal’s climate-change cultural world. The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate: Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate. Ed. Paul Sillitoe. Berghahn Books.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2015), "Institutional Climate Change Adaptation Efforts among the Sherpas of the Mount Everest Region, Nepal," in Donald C. Wood (ed.) Climate Change, Culture, and Economics: Anthropological Investigations (Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 35) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.1 – 23
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2014). Climate change, Perceptions, and Social Heterogeneity in Pharak, Mount Everest Region of Nepal. Human Organization, 73(2), 153-161.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2014) Climate Change Impacts among Sherpas: An Anthropological Study in the Everest Region, Nepal. Resources Himalaya Foundation, Kathmandu. Habitat Himalaya, 18(1).
Sherpa, P. Y. (2012). Sherpa perceptions of climate change and institutional responses in the Everest region of Nepal. PHD Diss. (Washington State University).
PUBLIC
March 3, 2014 "Engaged Anthropology Grant: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa" for The Wenner-Gren Blog.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2014) "Investing in Youths to Connect Communities." In Himalayan Trail 2014. Kathmandu: Mountain Spirit.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2013) "Understanding Climate Change in the Everest Region." In Annual Publication of Mountain Trail 2013. Kathmandu: Mountain Spirit.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2013) "Well-Intentioned Efforts and Unintended Consequences: A Case from Pharak." In Mountain Trail 2013, Quarterly Newsletter. Kathmandu: Mountain Spirit.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2012) "Examining the Responses to the Effects of Climate Change from an Exclusionary/ Inclusionary Perspective in Pharak (Everest Region) of Nepal." In Research Reports of Research Fellows. Social Inclusion Research Fund, Nepal.
Reviews
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2020) "Review of Life in Himalaya: An Ecosystem at Risk by Maharaj Pandit," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 39: No. 2.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2019) "Review of Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas by Karine Gagne," The Journal of Asian Studies, 78 (4), 960-961.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2018) "Review of Sustainable Mountain Development: Getting the Facts Right by Jack D. Ives," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 38 : No. 2 , Article 31.
Sherpa, Pasang Y. (2014) "Review of 'Climate Change Modeling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Volume 11)' edited by Armando Lamadrid and Ilan Kelman," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 34 : No. 2 , Article 23.