Making New Nepal : From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics

Snellinger, Amanda Thà rà se; Yang, Anand A. (EDT); Sivaramakrishnan, K. (EDT); Kaimal, Padma (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0295743085 / ISBN 13: 9780295743080

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2018

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Titel: Making New Nepal : From Student Activism to ...

Verlag: University of Washington Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 2018

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: New

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One of the most important political transitions to occur in South Asia in recent decades was the ouster of Nepal's monarchy in 2006 and the institution of a democratic secular republic in 2008. Based on extensive ethnographic research between 2003 and 2015, Making New Nepal provides a snapshot of an activist generation's political coming-of-age during a decade of civil war and ongoing democratic street protests.

Amanda Snellinger illustrates this generation's entrée into politics through the stories of five young revolutionary activists as they shift to working within the newly established party system. She explores youth in Nepali national politics as a social mechanism for political reproduction and change, demonstrating the dynamic nature of democracy as a radical ongoing process.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Amanda Thérèse Snellinger is an affiliate scholar and lecturer in South Asian studies at the University of Washington. She received her PhD in anthropology in 2010 from Cornell University. This is her first book.

Anand A. Yang is professor of international studies and history at the University of Washington. He is coeditor of Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (Hawai'i, 2005), coeditor of Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World (Oxford, 2017), and author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (California, 2021).

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.

Padma Kaimal is Batza Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. She is the author of Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Association for Asian Studies, 2013) and Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (Washington, 2021).