The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya – Kathmandu, Nepal

Conference Year: 2022

Inclusion and Governance in Education Committees of Local Governments

In the last two decades, initiatives have been taken to decentralise the education sector of Nepal through several acts and regulations (GoN 2017, 2). The Constitution of Nepal 2015 and the Local Government Operation Act 2017 have conferred powers and functions relating to the overall management and functioning of the school education sector to the …

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Urban Married Women in Service Sectors of Darjeeling Hills: Gender Dynamics in Their Everyday Family Lives

The socialization of gender values begins from the family and ideas of what is expected of men and women by the society are significantly developed within it. These values thus shapes gender relations, consequently, perpetuating gendered power dynamics in different forms. One factor that can be assumed to impact these power dynamics in the family …

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Intersectional Perspective on Menstrual Practises in Nepal: Lessons from ‘Dignity Without Danger’ Research Project

This paper is based on research carried out between 2019 and 2021 under a British Academy-funded Global Challenge Research Fund project entitled ‘Dignity Without Danger’. This qualitative study included 160 interviews and 16 focus group discussions among different castes and ethnic groups – Brahmin, Chhetri, Dalits, Newar, Magars, Gurungs, Sherpa, Rai, Limbu, Tharu and Muslim …

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Bargaining with Patriarchy – Woman Quest for Power and Security within the Patriarchal Families

Families in Nepal are not only patrilocal and patrilineal but deeply patriarchal where property rights, lineage and social power resides within male member of the family. Social and legal institutions of Nepal is deeply influenced by patriarchal Hindu ideology where women are portrayed as subservient being, playing secondary role to the men in their families. …

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Nepal’s National Security Council and National Security Policy: Internal and Geopolitical Sensitivities

As a sovereign and independent Himalayan nation, Nepal, holds a special geographical location in South Asia. The country borders the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of China in the North and, on the east, south and west, shares an open border with five India states, namely Sikkim and West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Nepal’s …

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Implied Gender and Cultural Nuances in Young Children’s Responses to Textbook Images

This research explores the initial school going children’s approaches to the textbook images and their gender attitude.  A total six participants studying in Grade One in one of the private schools of Kailali District, Far Western Province participated in this research. Keeping the young age of children in mind, the data was collected using activity-based …

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COVID-19, Nepal’s Political Economy and Rural Agricultural Households: Examining the Impacts and the Inter-Linkages

Nepal has faced repeated shocks. After Nepal formally came out of the conflict in 2006, the fragile peace process lasted for almost a decade, with the country, however, unable to pass a constitution. Then a devastating earthquake hit in 2015, and though Nepal was able to pass a constitution hurriedly, it was contested by disaffected …

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Moving Out from Nepal

As opposed to the most common used form of ethnographic study of travelling to a foreign place and studying the people of that place, this paper draws on from the experience of a social science student interacting, engaging, studying, observing, and speculating about the society she has grown up in. The speculations and observations that …

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Detritus: On the Decay and Afterlives of Abandoned Tea Plantations in Darjeeling, West Bengal

Tea plantations across Darjeeling, West Bengal are being abandoned by their owners, leaving workers to live amidst “capitalist ruins” (Tsing 2017). This paper explores afterlives of abandoned plantations in Darjeeling as an ongoing praxis of “becoming with” tea bushes amidst postcolonial and post-industrial ruination (Haraway 2008). This paper situates itself amidst tea plantations living remains. …

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