Representing Bhutan: A Critical Analysis of the Politics of Knowledge Production

Historical knowledge production about Bhutan by outsiders has generally relied upon the dominant lens of understanding place and people through accounts that combine narratives travel strategy. In this article, I interrogate complexly layered itinerary such to demonstrate how their imperial ethos either been ignored or underplayed. critically analyse systematicity, selectivity, positionality in knowledge-making on Bhutan. find endeavour tends be projected as casual unintentional, innocent its biases, unaware calculations, oblivious it prioritises own interests at expense native Others worldviews. Thus, sourcing is linked histories power region marked asymmetries terms whose views were heard reproduced over time. Understanding politics – constructed a peripheral non-Western world, having subjected multiple overlapping forces potential inform, informed by, other similar understudied areas.