Recent Publications
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Multiplex Kathmandu: Local Identities, Global Aspirations, by Jinni Pradhan
Pradhan, Jinni. 2016. Multiplex Kathmandu: Local Identities, Global Aspirations. University of California, Davis, CA. Abstract: This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the transnational contemporary cinema culture in the South Asian country of Nepal, where Kollywood (Nepali Cinema), Bollywood, and Hollywood share in a shifting (and sometimes contentious) relationship. Concerned with decentering Western paradigms within […]
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Understanding Air Pollution and Human Health Burden Associated in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, by Anobha Gurung
Gurung, Anobha. 2016. Understanding Air Pollution and Human Health Burden Associated in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Yale University, New Haven, CT. Abstract: Air pollution is linked to various adverse health effects with the majority of evidence based in North America and Europe. Nepal is one of the many countries where little such research has been conducted, […]
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Cloudbursts in the Nepal Himalayas: Interaction between the Indian monsoon and extratropics, by Archana Shrestha
Shrestha, Archana. 2016. Cloudbursts in the Nepal Himalayas: Interaction between the Indian monsoon and extratropics. University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI. Abstract: “Cloudbursts” are the most intense rainstorms in the Himalayan Region during the monsoon season. This study investigated the synoptic conditions and possible upper-level tropical–extratropical interaction during the cloudbursts in the Nepal Himalayas using composite analysis […]
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Knowledge, nature, and nationalism: The Upper Karnali Dam in Nepal, by Christopher Butler
Butler, Christopher. 2016. Knowledge, nature, and nationalism: The Upper Karnali Dam in Nepal. University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. Abstract: This dissertation is a critical examination of the activity and politics surrounding the Upper Karnali Hydroelectricity Project (UKH) in western Nepal. Though Nepal has 6,000 rivers, the rural parts of the country are largely without […]
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Himalayan Mobilities: An Exploration of the Impacts of Expanding Rural Road networks on Social and Ecological Systems in the Nepalese Himalaya, by Robert E. Beazley and James P. Lassoie
“The goals of this book are to update information on the effects of rural road development, both in Nepal and globally, explain the environmental, socioeconomic, and sociocultural impacts of expanding rural road networks in the Nepalese Himalaya, and to promote further studies on rural road development throughout the world based on studies and investigations performed […]
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Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal, by Anna Stirr
“An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love and intimacy are linked to changing conceptions of political solidarity and forms of belonging, through the lens of Nepali dohori song. The book describes dohori: improvised, dialogic singing, in which a witty repartee of exchanges is based on […]
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Rituals of Ethnicity Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India by Sara Shneiderman
“Rituals of Ethnicity is a transnational study of the relationships between mobility, ethnicity, and ritual action. Through an ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones of Nepal, India, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China, Shneiderman offers a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities today despite […]
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Precarity and Possibility at the Margins: Hazards, Infrastructure, and Indigenous Politics in Sikkim, India, by Mabel Denzin Gergan
Gergan, Mabel Denzin. 2016. Precarity and Possibility at the Margins: Hazards, Infrastructure, and Indigenous Politics in Sikkim, India. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Abstract: This research examines the politics of anti-dam activism after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Sikkim, India. A climate change hotspot, the Indian Himalayan region is witnessing a surge in […]
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On the Road to Better Health? Impacts of New Market Access on Food Security, Nutrition, and Well-Being in Nepal, Himalaya, by Michelle Grocke
Grocke, Michelle. 2016. On the Road to Better Health? Impacts of New Market Access on Food Security, Nutrition, and Well-Being in Nepal, Himalaya. University of Montana, Missoula, MT. https://usu.academia.edu/MichelleGrocke. Abstract: The first road to be built into Humla, Nepal has connected this once-remote Himalayan region to a market in China. This dissertation research assesses the […]
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Sherpa Intercultural Experiences in Himalayan Mountaineering: A Pragmatic Phenomenological Perspective, by Young Hoon Oh
Oh, Young Hoon. 2016. Sherpa Intercultural Experiences in Himalayan Mountaineering: A Pragmatic Phenomenological Perspective. University of California, Riverside, CA. http://www.academia.edu/29822613/_Doctoral_Dissertation_Sherpa_Intercultural_Experiences_in_Himalayan_Mountaineering_A_Pragmatic_Phenomenological_Perspective. Abstract: Sherpas occupy the key position in contemporary Himalayan mountaineering and related tourism industries across the Himalayan chain. Once engaged merely in carrying loads, they now guide clients and organize expeditions. The transformation has left many foreign […]