This book examines China's relations with its weak peripheral states through the theoretical
lens of structural power and structural violence. China's foreign policy concepts toward its …

This is the first book to cover existing debates on decolonising and developmental social
work whilst equipping readers with the understanding of how to translate the idea of …

Recent studies on 'the multilingual turn'(Conteh & Meier, 2014; May, 2014) reveal both the
theoretical and pedagogical inadequacy of monolingual ideologies and instructional …

Migration has been a basic fact of Nepali life for centuries. Over the last thirty years,
migration from Nepal has increased diaspora communities across the world. In these …

Nepal's multicultural society is hierarchical and divided along the lines of caste, ethnicity and
language and its school system, including curriculum and pedagogy, is influenced greatly by …

The conflict in Nepal (1996–2006) resulted in an estimated 15,000 deaths, 1,300
disappearances, along with other serious human rights and humanitarian law violations …

Over the last decade, Nepal has been through a surprising series of major political
upheavals: ending an armed rebellion, seeing democracy disrupted and restored, going …

The shift to adopting holistic approaches in transitional justice indicates an intention to pay
(greater) attention to politics in transitional justice. However, transitional justice actors …

Since the late 1990s, river basin planning has become a central idea in water resources
management and a mainstream approach supported by international donors through their …

This paper investigates the spatial dimension of power relations and the shaping of local
alliances through a hydropower development project in Nepal. It provides a grass-roots …