Conference Year: 2021

Military sensibilities inherited from the Colonial to the post-colonial state in India have vociferously engaged with regimentation and control. ‘Queerness’ has been made invisible by Masculinities. Whereby patriarchally driven images of the ‘self’, are injected in the ideas of ‘sacred and profane’ of the communities cosmology.  In the context of the Militarized Masculinities of Gorkha, …

Ambiguous Sexualities and Pink Migrations: In the Realm of the Politics of Sexualities, Regimentation and Control among Gorkhas in North-Eastern India Read More »

Toilets are an integral, yet, often neglected part of buildings and structures. While toilets demonstrate sanitation practices of an organization, it is not the only thing that could be studied through observation of toilets. Along with sanitation practices, gender relations, social inclusion and monitoring and surveillance system could also be observed through toilets and this …

Toilet as the Mainland of Institution: A Study of Toilets in Tribhuvan University Read More »

Indigenous peoples’ rights are one of the most dominant issues of ethnic social movements in Nepal after the political transformation of 1990. This research paper explains how indigenous peoples mobilize their organizations for constitutional reform to secure their rights recognized by the UN treaties and other mechanisms. The first democratic constitution of Nepal of 1990 …

Activism of Ethnic Social Movements for Constitutional Reform: An Analysis of Tamang’s Movement in Nepal Read More »

Border making in the Himalayas by colonial and post-colonial nation-states have been a fraught affair leaving behind it broken communities, destroyed livelihoods and often communal and geo-political conflagrations. Our paper looks at an outlier to this general case, studying the village of Hurling in the Spiti division of Himachal Pradesh to understand how and why …

Losing a Home, Finding a Nation: The Curious History of Hurling Village in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh Read More »

Twenty first century urbanism has been evolving in Nepal in new dimensions. Material possession and consumption has been one of the most highlighting features associated with urbanism in Nepal in the recent times. People tend to relate urban identity or urbanity to the possession of various materials. Urban dwellers’ attachment to various kinds of materials …

The Quest of Urban Materiality in an Urban Neighborhood: A Case of Butwal, Nepal Read More »