Political Change And Public Culture In Post 1990 Nepal

Author : Michael Hutt,Pratyoush Onta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316996287

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Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal by Michael Hutt,Pratyoush Onta Pdf

This book explores various domains of the Nepali public sphere in which ideas about democracy and citizenship have been debated and contested since 1990. It investigates the ways in which the public meaning of the major political and sociocultural changes that occurred in Nepal between 1990 and 2013 was constructed, conveyed and consumed. These changes took place against the backdrop of an enormous growth in literacy, the proliferation of print and broadcast media, the emergence of a public discourse on human rights, and the vigorous reassertion of linguistic, ethnic and regional identities. Scholars from a range of different disciplinary locations delve into debates on rumours, ethnicity and identity, activism and gender to provide empirically grounded histories of the nation during one of its most important political transitions.

Author : Krishna Bista,Shyam Sharma,Rosalind Latiner Raby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351139199

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Higher Education in Nepal by Krishna Bista,Shyam Sharma,Rosalind Latiner Raby Pdf

This book presents a showcase of discussions and critical perspectives about Nepalese higher education. Its chapters cover topics such as the impacts of local sociopolitical changes and global forces on public and private education, emerging online and distance education, administrative and intellectual leadership, quality assessment, graduate employability, global mobility of students, and the contributions of global diaspora of Nepalese scholars. The central questions of the book are: What are some of the local and global academic interactions in Nepalese higher education and what are the current challenges and pathways for advancements and improvements? How can Nepalese higher education absorb twenty-first century values of quality education as external forces, while adapting new developments to local needs? How can scholars interested in Nepalese, South Asian, and international higher education create opportunities for scholarship and professional collaboration around research on higher education in this region of South Asia? What issues and perspectives can research and scholarship about Nepal’s higher education offer to international discourse in higher education? The book offers information and resources to international educators interested in the dynamics of Nepalese and, by implication, South Asian higher education by introducing key challenges in policy and programs, innovative changes in curricula, effective approaches in technology application, and strategies for future integration of global reforms in education.

Author : Simon Chesterman,Hisashi Owada,Ben Saul
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198793854

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The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Asia and the Pacific by Simon Chesterman,Hisashi Owada,Ben Saul Pdf

The growing economic and political significance of Asia has exposed a tension in the modern international order. Despite expanding power and influence, Asian states have played a minimal role in creating the norms and institutions of international law; today they are the least likely to be parties to international agreements or to be represented in international organizations. That is changing. There is widespread scholarly and practitioner interest in international law at present in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as developments in the practice of states. The change has been driven by threats as well as opportunities. Transnational issues such as climate change and occasional flashpoints like the the territorial disputes of the South China and the East China Seas pose challenges while economic integration and the proliferation of specialized branches of law and dispute settlement mechanisms have also encouraged greater domestic implementation of international norms across Asia. These evolutions join the long-standing interest in parts of Asia (notably South Asia) in post-colonial theory and the history of international law. The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Asia and the Pacific brings together pre-eminent and emerging specialists to analyse the approach to and influence of key states of the region, as well as whether truly 'Asian' trends can be identified and what this might mean for international order.

Author : Debajyoti Biswas,Panos Eliopoulos,John C. Ryan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000811445

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Global Perspectives on Nationalism by Debajyoti Biswas,Panos Eliopoulos,John C. Ryan Pdf

Global Perspectives on Nationalism takes an interdisciplinary approach informed by recent theorisations of nationalism to examine perennial questions on the topic. The idea of nationalism centres on questions of ethnicity, culture, religion, language, and access to resources. What determines consciousness of nationalism? How is nationalism manifested, shaped, or countered through literary and cultural productions? The contributors highlight topical areas in studies of nationalism including ecology, natural resources, sustainability, globalisation, the Anthropocene, postcolonialism, indigeneity, folklore, popular culture, and queer theory. They develop innovative perspectives on nationalism through in-depth analyses of the theoretical, political, literary, linguistic, cultural, and ecological dimensions of nationalism in Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Poland, Scotland, Turkey, the United States, and elsewhere. This volume underscores the importance of generative dialogue between disciplines in assessing the implications of nationalism for everyday life through five thematic sections: (I) Ethnicity, Ideology, and Narration; (II) Religion, Identity, and Heritage; (III) Linguistics, Tradition, and Modernism; (IV) Music, Lyricism, and Poetics; and (V) Ecology, Environment, and Non-Human Lives. This book will be of particular value to students and researchers in philosophy, literary studies, and political theory with interests spanning ecology, ethnicity, folklore, gender, heritage, identity, linguistics, nationalism, nationhood, religion, and sexuality.

Author : Michael Hutt
Publisher : School of Oriental & African Studies University of London
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111957531

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Nepal in the Nineties by Michael Hutt Pdf

The historic events that took place in Nepal in the spring of 1990 have yet to be forgotton. A broad-based democracy movement succeeded in removing the 28-year-old Panchayat system after a campaign that lasted only six weeks. Five months later a new constitution was promulgated and, just over a year after the ending of the agitation, the Nepali Congress party secured a majority in the general election. This study contains eight essays by Western academics that reflect on the changes that occurred in the kingdom as the decade began and on the circumstances that produced these changes. As the events of 1990 pass into history, this book looks back in an attempt to understand them, and to draw lessons for the future of Nepal.

Author : Mallika Shakya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107191266

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Death of an Industry by Mallika Shakya Pdf

This book is about the death of the garment industry in Nepal and the Maoist-led labour uprising that followed.

Author : Ellen Parnavelas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781784974572

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House of Snow by Ellen Parnavelas Pdf

A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people. 'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better than House of Snow' Daily Telegraph 'One of the finest books I have read this year' Nudge Books 'A well-curated sliver of works that highlight the richness and variety of Nepal's literary contribution' Kathmandu Post In 2015, Sagarmatha frowned. Tectonic plates moved. A deadly earthquake devastated Nepal. In the wake of disaster, House of Snow brings together over 50 excerpts of fiction and non-fiction celebrating the breathtaking landscapes and rich cultural heritage of this fascinating country. Here are explorers and mountaineers, poets and political journalists, national treasures and international celebrities. Featuring a diverse cast of writers such as Michael Palin and Jon Krakauer, Lakshmiprasad Devko?a and Lil Bahadur Chettri – all hand-picked by well-known authors and scholars of Nepali literature including Samrat Upadhyay, Michael Hutt, Isabella Tree and Thomas Bell. House of Snow is the biggest, most comprehensive and most beautiful collection of writing about Nepal in print.

Author : Michael Hutt,Mark Liechty,Stefanie Lotter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108834056

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Epicentre to Aftermath by Michael Hutt,Mark Liechty,Stefanie Lotter Pdf

Analyses the impact of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes and the need to understand disasters in their cultural and political context.

Author : Michanne Steenbergen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000544336

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Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration by Michanne Steenbergen Pdf

Female Ex-Combatants, Empowerment, and Reintegration investigates the role of United Nations-led Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) programs in undermining female ex-combatants’ empowerment. The participation of female combatants in conflict has increasingly been recognized in feminist literatures and in policies and programs concerned with reintegrating ex-combatants and building peace. This has illustrated that female ex-combatants often experience "empowerment" through their role as combatant; however, this empowerment is often lost upon reintegration. UN-led DDR plays an important role in the broader peacebuilding process, as it is one of the largest interventions and directly aims to reintegrate ex-combatants into civilian life. This book draws on extensive field research and interviews with female ex-combatants and DDR officials in Liberia and Nepal to develop a nuanced and comprehensive picture of female ex-combatants’ empowerment and how this is undermined by DDR. Through reconceptualized frameworks of empowerment and an emancipatory peace, the book explores the pivotal role that DDR programs play in undermining female ex-combatants’ empowerment. The author argues that this is detrimental to peacebuilding, because DDR officials and documentation narrate female ex-combatants in limited and gendered ways, which reproduces gendered inequalities and define how female ex-combatants should behave. This book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners working on gender, conflict, peace, security, and development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2019315750

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The Politics of Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monica Mottin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108416115

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Rehearsing for Life by Monica Mottin Pdf

This work presents an account of what it means to perform theatre and live by theatre, grounded in ethnographic research.

Author : Sallie Han,Cecília Tomori
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000455984

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The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction by Sallie Han,Cecília Tomori Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction is a comprehensive overview of the topics, approaches, and trajectories in the anthropological study of human reproduction. The book brings together work from across the discipline of anthropology, with contributions by established and emerging scholars in archaeological, biological, linguistic, and sociocultural anthropology. Across these areas of research, consideration is given to the contexts, conditions, and contingencies that mark and shape the experiences of reproduction as always gendered, classed, and racialized. Over 39 chapters, a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including: Reproductive governance, stratification, justice, and freedom. Fertility and infertility. Technologies and imaginations. Queering reproduction. Pregnancy, childbirth, and reproductive loss. Postpartum and infant care. Care, kinship, and alloparenting. This is a valuable reference for scholars and upper-level students in anthropology and related disciplines associated with reproduction, including sociology, gender studies, science and technology studies, human development and family studies, global health, public health, medicine, medical humanities, and midwifery and nursing.

Author : Vicky Johnson,Andy West
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317398677

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Children’s Participation in Global Contexts by Vicky Johnson,Andy West Pdf

Children's and young people’s right to participate has been increasingly acknowledged and taken up internationally, as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet much of this has focused on collecting children’s voices, rather than achieving change, and has met its limits. This book provides an analysis of children’s participation in formal, collective and action research processes in six different international settings. It offers a deeper understanding of what helps and facilitates children's and young people’s participation through research, evaluation and decision-making to go beyond voice and effect change. This analysis is set in the context of historical and current discourses of participation, the sociology of childhood, contemporary anthropology, children’s geography and international development. Themes addressed include time and processes in children’s participation, shifting and multiple identities of children, political and cultural contexts, places and spaces children inhabit, skills and capacities of adults, accountability and power. The analysis promotes an approach to children’s participation as relational and collaborative, and will contribute to answering some of the questions facing practitioners and researchers embarking on participatory enquiry with children and young people. This is an invaluable book for practitioners and for scholars, postgraduates in anthropology, sociology, human geography, childhood studies, development studies, social policy, social work, community work, education, youth work and those with an interest in citizenship, children’s rights and human rights. Researchers and practitioners in UN, government and non-government services will also find it applicable to engaging with children and young people.

Author : Mahendra Lawoti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Democratization
ISBN : 8178297647

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Contentious Politics and Democratization in Nepal by Mahendra Lawoti Pdf

After the restoration of democracy in 1990, Nepal witnessed collective political struggles-identity and gender movements, public protests and strikes, and the Maoist rebellion.This volume examines the causes, consequences and effectiveness of such

Author : Ole Borre,Sushil R. Panday,Chitra K. Tiwari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040700497

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Nepalese Political Behaviour by Ole Borre,Sushil R. Panday,Chitra K. Tiwari Pdf

This work contains the first comprehensive study of Nepalese voters. It is based on hour-long interviews with 1000 Nepalese voters spread over the Himalayan kingdom. The survey was conducted immediately after the general election in May 1991, the first election to take place under the multiparty system which was introduced after the mass uprising in April 1990. This study registers the political attitudes prevailing in Nepalese society, the voters' perceptions of political problems, their evaluations of party differences, their participation in the election campaign and eventual partisan choice.