Recent Publications
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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 […]
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The Spectacle of Power, by Genevieve Lakier
Lakier, Genevieve. 2014. The spectacle of power: Coercive protest and the problem of democracy in Nepal. University of Chicago, IL. Abstract: This dissertation examines how political actors in contemporary Nepal negotiate their relationship to the state and to other members of the political community by performing their power publicly, specifically, by organizing coercive protests such as bandhs […]
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Four Ana and One Modern Home, by Andrew Nelson
Nelson, Andrew. 2013. Four Ana and One Modern House: A Spatial Ethnography of Kathmandu’s Urbanizing Periphery. University of Virginia, Charlotesville, VA. http://gradworks.umi.com/35/73/3573518.html. Abstract: This dissertation concerns the relationship between the rapid transformation of Kathmandu Valley’s urban periphery and the social relations of post-insurgency Nepal. Starting in the 1970s, and rapidly increasing since the 2000s, land outside […]