4/5/2020 SSB Newsletter | February 2020 | Vol 2, No 3

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February 2020 | Vol 2, No 3

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Nanda R. and Pamela L. Shrestha Lecture Series: Honouring Nepal Scholars - 2 Dipak Gyawali on Toni Hagen The Journey from Development Expertise to Social Relevance 3 pm | 12 February 2020 (Wednesday) | Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka Dipak Gyawali is currently Pragya (Academician) of the of Science and Technology (NAST), and guest senior research scholar with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. Read more

The Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture 2020 Ranabir Samaddar on ‘The Urban Turn’ 4 pm | 20 February 2020 (Thursday) | Hotel Shanker, Lazimpat Ranabir Samaddar is currently the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India. Read more

BNAC PhD Dissertation Prize Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC) invites applications for its ‘PhD Dissertation Prize’ for 2020. Application deadline: 29 February 2020 Read more

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Journals

Dhaulagiri Journal of Journal of Political Social Inquiry Sociology and Science Journal of Social Science Anthropology Vol 19, 2019 Research Vol 13, 2019 Read more Vol 1, No 1, 2019 Read more Read more

Books

Agricultural Bhagyabad ra Bikas B.P. Koiralako Diary Transformation in Nepal Aadhunikikaran Hetu Nepalko (2008-2013) Trends, Prospects and Jamarko (in Nepali) Policy Options (in Nepali) Edited by Edited by Dor Bahadur Bista Padam Bahadur Thapa Ganesh Thapa, (translated by Shikha Books, 2019 Anjani Kumar & Basanta Thapa) Read more P.K. Joshi Family of Dor Bahadur Bista, Springer, 2019 2020 Read more Read more

Female Farmers of Nepal Ganatantrako Yatra Jureli Darshan Invisible but Emergent Bandi Britanta (in Nepali) Sanskritiwidd Satyamohan Primary Farmers Narhari Acharya Joshi Sambandhi Subarna L. Malla Singh Sangrila Books, 2019 Anusandhanmulak Kriti Joshi Read more (in Nepali) Vajra Publications, 2019 Anil Poudel Read more Sanskritik Sansthan, 2019 Read more

Nepali Prawasan Trials, Tremors and Hope Women of the Niyati ra Rahar The Political Economy of ‘Third World’ (in Nepali) Contemporary Nepal What Can We Learn from Dambar Krishna Shrestha Ram Sharan Mahat Them? Himal Books for Adroit Publishers, 2019 Claude W. Bobillier The Centre for the Study of Read more Vajra Publications, 2019 Labour and Mobility, 2020 Read more Read more

Toni Hagen Photos of Valley 1950-1960 Nepal Heritage Society Edited by Katrin Hagen, text by Poonam Rajya Laxmi Rana Vajra Publications, 2019 Read more

Journal Articles

Brokering Labour Rural Household’s Allocation of Remittances The Politics of Markets in the Kathmandu in Agriculture in Nepal Construction Industry Prem Bhandari Dan V. Hirslund Global Journal of Agricultural and Allied Sciences, Ethnography, 2019 1:1, 2019 Read more Read more

God, King, and Subject The Material Politics of Citizenship On the Development of Composite Political Struggles over Resources, Authority and Belonging Cultures in the Western Himalaya, in the New Federal Republic of Nepal circa 1800–1900 Andrea J. Nightingale, Lutgart Lenaerts, Ankita Arik Moran Shrestha, The Journal of Asian Studies, 78:3, 2019 Pema Norbu Lama 'Tsumpa' & Read more Hemant R. Ojha South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies, 42:5, Himalayan Futures 2019 Tourism and the Anticipation of Development Read more Rune Bolding Bennike Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 2019 The Reliability and Stability of Measures of Read more | Policy brief Individuals' Values and Beliefs Concerning Developmental Idealism in Nepal Indigenous Knowledge of Traditional Foods Arland Thornton, Dirgha Ghimire, and Food Literacy Among Youth Linda Young-DeMarco & Prem Bhandari Insights from Rural Nepal Sociology of Development, 5:3, 2019 Hom Gartaula, Kirti Patel, Shailesh Shukla & Read more Rachana Devkota Journal of Rural Studies, 73, 2020 Read more

Trans-Himalayan Power Corridors Infrastructural Politics and China's Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal Galen Murton & Austin Lord Science Direct, 77, 2020 Read more

Book chapters

Country Studies on Mountain Agriculture Development: Nepal Rabindra Subedi & Manoj Kumar Yadav In Mountain Agriculture: Opportunities for Harnessing Zero Hunger in Asia, edited by Zuan Li, Mahmoud El Solh & Kadambot H.M. Siddique Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, 2019 Read more

Gender-Inclusive Energy The Nepal Case Reihana Mohideen In Women and the Energy Revolution in Asia Palgrave Pivot, 2020 Read more

Miscellaneous

Local Government and School Education Turbulence in Federal Nepal Austin Lord (in Nepali) Special Collection on Volumetric Sovereignty, Research Brief No 28 Society & Space, 2019 Martin Chautari, 2019 Read more Read more To Access is to Benefit ‘Writing as an Activism’ Making Sense of the Enterprise of Access to Barefoot Research Initiative in Nepal the Internet Research Brief No 29 Research Brief No 27 Martin Chautari, 2020 Martin Chautari, 2019 Read more Read more

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