Conference Year: 2019

Migration of Nepali women nationally as well as transnationally for paid labour work and particularly for care work is increasing rapidly. Among the other reasons, this is broadly linked to social transformation taking place both at the source and the destination. Studies on care work migration show that the foreign migration and associated remittance flow …

Beyond Empowerment and Exploitation: Care Chain of Transnational Migratory Nepali Women Read More »

Dhorpatan cluster is comprised of Dhorpatan hunting reserve in Baglung district, Madane protected forest area primarily in Gulmi and Okharkot-Gaumukhi heritage trail in Pyuthan initiatives which are connected local region geographically in parts of these three districts and the primary purpose of the cluster is to enhance local ecology and economy.  From the perspective of …

Issues in the Development of Community-Led Tourism in Nepal–the Example of Dhorpatan Read More »

Our realm of everyday life is constituted by both human and non-human beings. However, social science has generally failed to delve into the ways in which non-human beings participate and actively construct our daily life, especially from their own perspectives. My research explores the ways marginalized groups (in this scenario stray dogs) conduct their daily …

Centering Himalayan Stray Dogs: Reframing the Narrative of Non-Human Being Subjectivity and Agency Read More »

Key Words: Transdisciplinarity, child and youth studies and child rights Globally, humans are facing numerous socio-economic, cultural and environmental problems while being threatened by ever more complicated and complex issues. In such contexts, disciplinarily-focused research and pedagogies often constrain our ability to move beyond institutional and bureaucratic mind-sets and create change in complex local systems …

The UNCRC and Global Childhoods: Transdisciplinary Reflections from Nepal Read More »

Disasters have differential impacts on communities and groups depending on their socio economic status as well as geographical locations which are vulnerable not just to climate and natural disasters but difficult terrain and access to resources (Drolet et al. 2015). Globally there is an increasing recognition that children as one of the most vulnerable groups …

Why Children Matter: Vulnerabilities and Needs of Children in Disasters Read More »

The Muslim migration into the hills of Darjeeling forms a formidable part of the imperial administrators and the colonial project of building a sanatorium in the form of a hill station. Though the objective of the hill station was to sanitize the white population from the natives at large, the whites could not imagine a …

Enduring Islam and ‘Muslimness’ in Trans- Himalayas: Some Reflections from the Case of the Gorkha Muslims and Tibetan Muslims in the Eastern Himalayan Town of Darjeeling, India Read More »

In upper Mustang, Nepal, lying beyond the Nepal Himalayas, summers are short with a single agricultural harvest and winters are harsh with much of the land covered in snow. Loba, inhabitants of the region, used to engage in trade in salt and wools from Tibet and food grains from the south until early 1960s. Historically, …

Summer Farmers, Winter Traders: Loba’s Adaptation through Changing Socio-Political Times Read More »

This paper aims to understand the consequences of social media mainly Facebook on the authority of traditional journalists /media organizations. In a review (Lewis and Molyneux 2018) on the studies about journalism and social media, writers pointed out that many scholars assumed that social media matter the most for journalists. The reviewers also maintained that …

From Media Accountability to Violence: Audience Participation and Opposition in the Proposed LED Bulb Procurement Episode on Social Media Read More »

Sexual assaults and drug facilitated sexual assaults (DFSA) are becoming a serious problem in Nepal. Sexual assaults on vulnerable people such as the children, elderly and people with disability are becoming more common as evident from frequent crime reports published in Nepali newspapers. The increasing cases of sexual assaults in the country and the public …

Understanding the Nature of Sexual Assault Cases in Nepal Through a Forensic Lens Read More »

The Second People’s Movement, the nearing end of the 1996-2006 internal conflict and the prospect  of the Constituent Assembly election created  hope and expectation  for real change in Nepal. Through its promising text,  the  2006 Comprehensive Peace  Accord of Nepal (CPA)  contributed to these  hopes, suggesting  that   inclusive  and  substantive   socio-economic  transformation  could  be  within …

Translating Hybridity and Change: The 2006 Comprehensive Peace Accord of Nepal Read More »