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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2016

SARA SHNEIDERMAN ,
LUKE WAGNER ,
JACOB RINCK ,
AMY L. JOHNSON  and
AUSTIN LORD
SARA SHNEIDERMAN
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada Email: [email protected]
LUKE WAGNER
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Yale University, United States of America Email: [email protected]
JACOB RINCK
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Yale University, United States of America Email: [email protected]
AMY L. JOHNSON
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, United States of America Email: [email protected]
AUSTIN LORD
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, United States of America Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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 between Maoist and state forces formally ended. The article is structured around four major themes: (1) the Maoist insurgency or ‘People's War’; (2) state formation and transformation; (3) identity politics; and (4) territorial and ecological consciousness. We also address the dynamics of migration and mobility in relation to all of these themes. Ultimately, we consider the Maoist movement as one element in a much broader process of transformation, which with the benefit of hindsight we can situate in relation to several other contemporaneous trajectories, including: democratization, identity-based mobilization, constitutional nationalism, international intervention, territorial restructuring, migration and the remittance economy, and the emergence of ecological and other new forms of consciousness. By looking across the disciplines at scholarship published on all of these themes, we aim to connect the dots between long-standing disciplinary traditions of scholarship on Nepal and more recent approaches to understanding the country's transformation.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 6 , November 2016 , pp. 2041 - 2114
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We thank Yale University's Department of Anthropology for hosting the year-long graduate seminar in 2013–2014 out of which this article emerged, and K. Sivaramakrishnan for nurturing the idea behind it. Within our five-author collective, we acknowledge the following organizations that supported elements of our individual scholarship during the review and writing period: the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship; the Fulbright Commission in Nepal; the National Science Foundation; the Wenner-Gren Foundation; the Department of Anthropology, the Institute of Asian Research, and the Hampton Research Fund at the University of British Columbia; and the following units at Yale University: Department of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, South Asian Studies Council, and Yale Himalaya Initiative. We thank the many friends and colleagues who have shaped our thinking and writing over time, and the family members who have supported our work. We cannot name everyone individually, but recognize the many important conversations that took place in Nepal at the Carter Center, the Cornell Nepal Study Program, Martin Chautari, Social Science Baha, the Central Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at Tribhuvan University, and Patipa Palace. We are grateful to our four anonymous reviewers, whose recommendations significantly improved this article. Finally, we thank the editors of Modern Asian Studies, especially Norbert Peabody, for their interest, patience, and guidance.

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