Survivors of Neglect in a Narrowing World

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2026.12363

Keywords:

Cockroach Janta Party, mythopolitics, youth protest, Everest labor, Himalayan studies, HIMALAYA 45(1)

Abstract

This editorial for HIMALAYA Volume 45, Issue 1, opens from a May 2026 symposium in Tromsø on caste, indigeneity, and ecological futures, and from the Cockroach Janta Party that emerged in India days later after the Chief Justice was reported to have called unemployed young people "cockroaches" and "parasites of society." Read alongside the movements in Bangladesh (2024) and Nepal (2025), it asks who is counted as productive and who as a burden, and introduces the issue's contributions on Everest expedition laborers, road workers in Ladakh, population churn and educational migration in highland Nepal, Angami pottery, and the Mary Mother of God Church in Kalimpong, together with five book reviews.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

  • Michael T. Heneise, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø

    Michael T. Heneise is Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Archaeology, History and Religious Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, and Editor-in-Chief of HIMALAYA. A social anthropologist of the Naga uplands and eastern Himalayan borderlands, his research explores dreams, cosmopolitics, human–animal relations, and Indigenous ecological knowledge. He leads Ekologos, an international collaborative project on Indigenous knowledge and environmental change, and is President and co-founder of the Highland Institute in Kohima. In 2025, he was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Downloads

Published

11-Sep-2026

Issue

Vol. 45 No. 1 (2026)

Section

Editorial

License

Copyright (c) 2026 Michael T. Heneise

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Survivors of Neglect in a Narrowing World. (2026). HIMALAYA, 45(1), 2–4. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2026.12363