Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal is an accessible contemporary political economic analysis of social change in Nepal. It considers whether and how Nepal's political economy might have been transformed since the 1950s while situating these changes in Nepal's modern history and its location in the global economic system. It assembles and builds on the scholarship on Nepal from a multidisciplinary and synoptic perspective. Focusing on local discourses, experiences and expectations of transformations, it draws our attention to how powerful historical processes are experienced and negotiated in Nepal and assess how these may, at the same time, produce ideas of equality, human rights and citizenship while also generating new forms of precarity.
Autorentext
Jeevan R. Sharma is a Senior Lecturer in South Asia and International Development at the University of Edinburgh.
Klappentext
Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal is an accessible contemporary political economic analysis of social change in Nepal. It considers whether and how Nepal's political economy might have been transformed since the 1950s while situating these changes in Nepal's modern history and its location in the global economic system. It assembles and builds on the scholarship on Nepal from a multidisciplinary and synoptic perspective. Focusing on local
discourses, experiences and expectations of transformations, it draws our attention to how powerful historical processes are experienced and negotiated in Nepal and assess how these may, at the same time, produce ideas of equality, human rights and citizenship while also generating new forms of precarity.
Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction: Framing Nepal's Social Transformation
Chapter 2: From Subjects to Citizens: Maoist Insurgency and Local Perceptions of Social Change
Chapter 3: Peasantry, Mobility and the Changing Face of Rural Nepal
Chapter 4: Mobility and Educational and Occupational Futures
Chapter 5: Development and Patronage Politics
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Precarity and Paradox in Once-remote Locations