Roderick Wijunamai is PhD Student in the Department of Anthropology, Cornell University. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Highland Insititite, Kohima (Nagaland). Prior to commencing his PhD, Roderick was Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at Royal Thimphu College, Bhutan. Roderick’s research focuses on ecological changes and food systems in the Indo–Myanmar borderlands. Some of his authored and coauthored essays have appeared in The India Forum, The Caravan, The Diplomat, Scroll.in and Himal Southasian.