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Youth Political Engagement and Democratic Culture in Republican Nepal

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

There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation

spellout . Dordrecht: Springer. Baker , Mark. 1988 . Incorporation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bale , Alan. 2008 . A universal scale of comparison . Linguistics and Philosophy 31 : 1 - 55 . https ... : Indefiniteness and islands . Linguistics and Philosophy 43 : 427 - 472 . Chierchia , Gennaro. 1998 . Reference to kinds across language . Natural Language Semantics 6 ( 4 ): 339 - 405 . Chomsky , Noam. 1957

The Young Political Generation Today, Five Years Later

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 to Cox

- 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

The Political Potency of Tibetan Identity in Pop Music and Dunglen

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

Violent Histories and Political Consciousness: Reflections on Nepal's Maoist Movement from Piskar Village

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

Pollution Abatement and Lobbying in a Cournot Game: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach

literature focuses on the political economy of environmental regulation and usually does not take into account the market power of firms. When it does, it involves a social planner approach in the ... & Goto, 2014) , the effect of regulation on foreign investment or firms’ location choices (Elliott & Zhou, 2013) . Notably, this literature typically lacks the political economics side of the story, as

On the Political Organization of Nomadic Pastoralists in Western Tibet: A Rejoinder to Cox

, 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

Tibetan Refugees As Objects Of Development. Indian Development Philosophy And Refugee Resistance In The Establishment Of Lukzung Samdrupling, The First Tibetan Refugee Settlement In India

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

Waking the Watchdog: Needs, Opportunities, and Challenges of Environmental Advocacy in Modern Bhutan

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

Turkish Stock Market from Pandemic to Russian Invasion, Evidence from Developed Machine Learning Algorithm

affected negatively almost all stock markets all over the world, but the effects are heterogeneous across countries according to their economic-political relationship or neighbourhood, etc. Due to that, the ... Quantitative Methods, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan , 20122 Milan , Italy In recent time, the two significant events; Coronavirus epidemic and Russian invasion are effecting

The Social and Political Life of a Relic: The Episode of the Moi-e-Muqaddas Theft in Kashmir, 1963-1964

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

Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu by Anne M. Rademacher; Reviewed by Kelly D. Alley

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

The Dull Pain of Simmering Anger: Affective and Emotional Experiences among Displaced Kashmiri Pandits

‘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

Consumption Modelling Using Categorisation-Enhanced Mental Accounting

of Economics and Statistics , 83 ( 1 ), 252 - 272 . Caballero , RJ. ( 1993 ). Durable goods: An explanation for their slow adjustment . Journal of Political Economy , 101 ( 2 ), 351 - 384 . https ... expectations about future income . Journal of Political Economy , 89 ( 5 ), 974 - 1009 . https://doi.org/10.1086/261016 Hansen , LP & Singleton, KJ. ( 1983 ). Stochastic consumption, risk aversion, and the

Review of River Dialogues: Hindu Faith and the Political Ecology of Dams on the Sacred Ganga by Georgina Drew

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

Gender and Green Governance: The Political Economy of Women’s Presence in Community Forestry and Beyond by Bina Agarwal; Reviewed by Bimbika Sijapati Basnett

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

Political Transformations: collaborative feminist scholarship in Nepal

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

Constructing the Secular: The Changing Relationship Between Religion and Politics in the Tibetan Exile Community

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