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Nepalese youth have been aimed at integrating them as useful assets in the service of Nepalese political institutions, such as political student unions, but in this paper, based on fieldwork and interview ... University 1 Culture in Republican Nepal. HIMALAYA 39(2) 2 O'Neill , Tom; Poudel, Bijaya Raj; and Maharjan, Nabin. 2020. Youth Political Engagement and Democratic Available at: https
have the institutional capacity to fulfill their demands? During my research in Nepal of student activists’ political participation—their protesting the king’s dismissal of elected parliament in the ... their parties in the constituent assembly elections in 2008—I learned of the euphoric infectiousness that comes from successful political movements. I know how young activists derive a sense of importance
- Nomadic pastoralists and the traditional political economy-a Rejoinder by Melvyn C. Goldstein (Case Western Reserve University) rejoinder to Cox. Romanticizing traditional Tibetan society and revising ... its history in accordance with contemporary political expedience is growing as the political contest between the Dalai Lama and China over the status of contemporary Tibet intensifies. Cox's response to
political potency of Tibetan pop music and dunglen is far more double-edged, coopted and complex. Drawing on ethnography, I describe how state institutions and largely Tibetan cultural workers have in fact ... these expressions are linked to particular political demands. As I explore, a number of reasons can be identified as to why the state does not censor Tibetan pop music and dunglen more harshly, and
between the 1\<[aoist movem ent and past hi sto ri es of political violence in rural Nepal. I ex plore ho w a 1984 p olice ma ssac re of villa ge rs in Piska r, Sindhup a lcok , fostered lo ca l p olitica l ... pal trea ted it eith er as an inco mprehen sible , a nom a lou s rupture in a gen erally p eaceful politi ca l field, or as a case of political party s plit s gon e aw r y. I argu e in stea d th at th
, therefore, were ethnic Tibetans living in W. China under a totally different political system from that extant in Tibet "proper".1 In essence, the Tibetan populations in Kansu were analogous to the ethnic ... Tibetan populations of Ladakh (India), Nepal, Sikkim ar:.d Bhutan. We would, of course, not expect that the political organization of peasants in Lhasa, Tibet would be the same as those in Leh, Ladakh or
The paper looks at the development philosophy behind the establishment of the Lukzum Samdrupling, the first Tibetan refugee settlement in India and how it was received by the refugees. After ... and 1960’s with an emphasis on Tibet, the paper explores the central concepts of Indian development philosophy at that time, such as cooperative, scientific farming and modern family planning, and how
philosophy emphasizes sustainable development, cultural preservation, environmental conservation, and good governance over the long-favored global metric of success: Gross Domestic Product. Bhutan’s historic ... transition to democracy are changing the ecological and socio-political landscape, requiring the adaptation of conservation strategy. This paper draws on historic and policy analysis, ethnographic observation
theft became a vehicle for reifying certain Kashmiri Muslim social and political sentiments. The incident also catapulted the issue of Kashmir’s political accession, which emerged in 1947 at the time of
turbulent twenty years of Kathmandu’s history and outlines the political crises, human settlements and resettlements, and global reaches of river restoration discourses. She orients and frames this journey by ... identifying three narratives of urban ecology. Rademacher traces out the political and environmental transformations that together impact and create the degraded reaches of the Bagmati and Bishnumati rivers
‘exodus.’ While the Pandits have lived since then in Jammu, New Delhi and elsewhere, remaking their lives that were disrupted in displacement, they inhabit a complex political location. Pandit political ... sentiments of anger are expressed, that are seemingly Ankur Data minor and ordinary, but which provide a way to understand anger and rage in shaping everyday social and political life. I will then discuss
Recommended Citation - River Dialogues: Hindu Faith and the Political Ecology of Dams on the Sacred Ganga. Georgina Drew. Critical Green Engagements. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017. 258 pages ... cases such as the Ganga, where resources are revered, political ecology alone is insufficient for understanding and assessing resource conflict. ?Political ecology is useful because it focuses on the
the turbulent politics of the Himalayas today, belonging’s lack appears as much a political force as its presence. Crucially, belonging and non-belonging are best considered in tandem. After all, not ... and the acrimonious struggles for a “new Nepal,” the interplays of belonging and non-belonging breed exceptionally volatile, often violent, political forms. Belonging —understood as an affective and
research project wherein we combined our expertise and feminist commitments to explore the current political transition in Nepal. The project conceptualized market formation and resource governance to be ... Political Transformations: Collaborative Feminist Scholarship in Nepal Andrea J. Nightingale Katharine N. Rankin Feminist theory has expanded the sphere within which politics is assumed to occur and thus can
meltdown of the reactor core, a vast emission of radionuclides, and early deaths of only 31 persons. Its enormous political, economic, social and psychological impact was mainly due to deeply rooted fear of ... and risk philosophy. One of them is demonstration that counted per electricity units produced, early Chernobyl fatalities amounted to 0.86 death/GWeyear), and they were 47 times lower than from
emergence of an ideology of secularism and secular democracy. I consider secularization in the exile polity to be occurring in two respects. The first is in the form of differentiation between the political ... institutions, which culminated in the Dalai Lama’s complete devolution of his political powers to the elected government in 2011. The second is in the sense of the transfer and transition of political legitimacy
This article examines the political subjectivities of the first generation of post-Partition Kashmiri Muslims and presents their life narratives, both written and oral, as an important vantage point ... autonomy and the promises of a plebiscite, as well as intense political repression. Two, they were enlisted in the project of state reform and nation building, and thus, effectively participated in those
analyze how policy makers construct Nepal’s position in the global arena, in relation to the issue of climate change. In the second part, I draw from political ecology and anthropological understandings of ... Nepal’s pursue more radical socio-political and cultural position in the global arena, in relation to the change as efective adaptation measures. issue of climate change. In the second part, I Keywords
landscape fraught with anxieties over religious identities as tensions prevail between a Buddhist and a Muslim population. Consideration for the political effects of ethical discourses about dogs in Ladakh ... as a contentious political question. In the public sphere, some interpret matters related to dogs as a problem of human territoriality, while others foreground animal care as a virtue of Tibetan
