Himalayan border citizens: Sovereignty and mobility in the Nepal–Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) of China border zone

SB Shneiderman - Political Geography, 2013 - Elsevier
For over half a century, a border zone mandated by bilateral treaty has existed along the full
length of the international border between Nepal and China's Tibetan Autonomous Region …

Nepal's Ongoing Political Transformation: A review of post-2006 literature on conflict, the state, identities, and environments

S Shneiderman, L Wagner, J Rinck… - Modern Asian …, 2016 - cambridge.org
This review article provides a reading guide to scholarly literature published in English
about Nepal's political transformation since 2006, when Nepal's decade-long civil conflict …

Neoliberalism, linguistic commodification, and ethnolinguistic identity in multilingual Nepal

BK Sharma, P Phyak - Language in Society, 2017 - cambridge.org
This article examines the consequences of neoliberalism in two separate domains of
multilingual language use in the context of Nepal: language education and tourism. We …

Language education policy and inequalities of multilingualism in Nepal: Ideologies, histories and updates

P Phyak, LP Ojha - … handbook of language education policy in …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter analyzes historical trajectories of Nepal's language education policies, with a
focus on space, status and ideologies of different languages. It deals with an overview of …

New Identity Politics and the 2012 Collapse of Nepal's Constituent Assembly: When the dominant becomes 'other'

KP Adhikari, DN Gellner - Modern Asian Studies, 2016 - cambridge.org
This article explores the politicization of ethnicity in Nepal since 1990. In particular it looks at
how ideas of indigeneity have become increasingly powerful, leading to Nepal becoming …

Restructuring states, restructuring ethnicity: looking across disciplinary boundaries at federal futures in India and Nepal

S Shneiderman, L Tillin - Modern Asian Studies, 2015 - cambridge.org
India and federalizing Nepal represent distinct types of federal polity: their origins lie not in
the unification of previously autonomous states, but in the devolution of power by a …

[HTML][HTML] Political geographies of urban demarcation: Learning from Nepal's state-restructuring process

J Agergaard, BP Subedi, D Brøgger - Political Geography, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper we use the case of Nepal to advance political geographic analyses of how,
during moments of rupture, territory act as an important political technology in state …

Citizens of a hydropower nation: Territory and agency at the frontiers of hydropower development in Nepal

A Lord - Economic Anthropology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This article interrogates Nepal's ongoing and intensifying attempt to become a “hydropower
nation” by focusing ethnographic attention on new kinds of subjectivity, identity, and agency …

[HTML][HTML] Dalit identity in urban Pokhara, Nepal

B Pariyar, JC Lovett - Geoforum, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Urban migration by Nepalese Dalits has not only provided them with social,
economic and educational opportunities, but also the possibility of escaping traditional caste …

Pathways to institutional legitimacy in postconflict societies: perceptions of process and performance in Nepal

K Fisk, A Cherney - Governance, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Rebuilding institutional legitimacy is considered essential for stability in postconflict
societies, yet the factors that influence citizen perceptions of legitimacy in this context remain …