Byrne Sarah
PhD Student
Political Geography
Department of Geography
University of Zurich - Irchel
Winterthurerstr. 190
CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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Sarah Byrne joined the Geography Department in January 2010 as a Phd student. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Sarah wrote her Masters thesis on forest governance in Orissa in the context of the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas Act. Sarah previously worked with Intercooperation (Swiss Foundation for Development and International Cooperation), most recently as Governance Advisor in the Nepal Swiss Community Forestry Project. She also worked previously as a Researcher at the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg. Sarah has field experience with development cooperation projects related to local governance in Nepal, India, Albania, Kosovo and Serbia.
Research Interests
Sarah’s Phd research looks into the question of how people make choices about their livelihood strategies in contexts in which the configuration of power at the local level is composed of different conflicting logics of governing. This question will be explored in the context of Mid-Western Nepal (both hill and Terai areas) during and after the Maoist conflict. More broadly, Sarah’s research interests include locality and identity, the spatiality of governance, and the relationship between these and public policies such as decentralisation.