Conference Year: 2018

The paper is written against the backdrop of two key trends in road development in Nepal. First, government and donor agencies have, since the inception of the modern development era, invested extensively in building ‘strategic roads’, or highways. Since the 1970s, under the auspices of regional planning, most of this investment has concentrated on North-South …

Rural Roads Matters: Debate and Practice of Road Building in the Eastern Plains of Nepal Read More »

Conflict is normally disruptive for efficient delivery of public services such as health and education and therefore has a long term consequences on human capital formation. We investigate whether the disruptive hypotheses holds true in the particular conflict setting of Nepal. Nepal experienced ten years of civil conflict (1996 to 2006) between the State and …

Other Side of the Civil Conflict in Nepal: An Empirical Exploration into Health and Well-Being Read More »

This paper aims to explore contested and complex post-war transition processes following the end of Maoist insurgency in 2006, taking the case study of Bardiya. As a district with the highest number of enforced disappearance of civilians, predominantly belonging to Tharu ethnic community, by the state security forces during the Maoist conflict period, Bardiya continues …

Post War Reconstruction, Transitional Justice and the Politics of Everyday Life: Case Study of Bardiya Read More »

Drawing upon fieldwork from a two year research project entitled ‘Borderlands, brokers and peacebuilding’ this paper examines Nepal’s post war transition focusing on shifting centre-periphery relations, with particular reference to a provincial town, Rajbiraj in the southern Tarai borderlands. The paper aims to develop a ‘borderland biography’, as this provides an interesting lens and vantage …

Political Mobilisation and Borderland Brokers in Nepal’s Tarai Read More »

Using Foucault’s conception of discourse (as “ensemble of rules” producing “truths” or “effects of truths”) as a theoretical framework, this paper explores the dominant discourse on female labor migration in the larger Nepalese society and its impact on women workers. Using data from interviews and newspaper archive, the paper specifically examines how women’s migration for …

Social Perception, Media Representation, and the Policies of Female Labor Migration in Nepal Read More »