Xavier Houdoy

South Asia Program Editor

Xavier Houdoy is Research Scholar at Noria’s South Asia Program (SAProg) and founder of its Cartographic department. A PhD candidate at the French Institute of Political Geography (Paris 8 University), his thesis deals with contemporary state dynamics in India’s North-East region, while his wider research interests question the use of space as a dimension of social and political power competition.

Publications on Noria

Mapping the 2019 Sudan Protests
Libya’s Territorial and Institutional Division
No More Opium for the Masses
Actors and Territories in Northern Iraq
The Dynamics of Peace Process in Tajikistan
Competing Actors and Fragmented Territories in Iraq and Syria
Iraq from the Ground
Land Grabbing and Peace Negotiations in Colombia
Sectarian Strategies, National Settings and the War Economy in Syria and Iraq
National Territory Crumbling

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