12/1/2020 SSB Newsletter | December 2020 | Vol 3, No 2
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SSB Newsletter | December 2020 | Vol 3, No 2 December 2020 | Vol 3, No 2 Empowering Women through Participatory Action Research in Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Eorts Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Bijay Krishna Upadhyay, Yim Ming (Connie) Kwong, Omkala Khanal, Louise J. Bracken, Sushil Pandit & Rajat Bastola International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Special Issue on Gender, Resilience and Sustainability, 51, 2020 Read more Human Dimensions to Climate Change Insights from Case Study in the Nhāson Valley of Nepal Himalaya Jiban Mani Poudel Journal of Tourism and Himalayan Adventures, 2, 2020 Read more Redundancy, Resilience, Repair Infrastructural Eects in Borderland Spaces Edward Boyle & Sara Shneiderman Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 6:2, 2020 Read more The Politics of Border and Nation in Nepal in the Time of Pandemic Mallika Shakya Dialectical Anthropology, 44, 2020 Read more Tool of Economic Development, Metric of Global Health Promoting Planned Families and Economized Life in Nepal Jan Brunson Social Science and Medicine, 254, 2020 Read more Guarding the Guards Education, Corruption, and Nepal’s Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) David N. Gellner & Krishna P. Adhikari Public Anthropologist, 2:2, 2020 Read more Killing the Critical A Critical Discourse Analysis of Moral Values in Government-Sponsored Textbooks of Nepal Saroj G.C. International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 5:5, 2020 Read more Speaking is Healing Dalit Women Gain a Voice through a Charismatic Healing Movement in Nepal Amar Bahadur BK Caste/A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 1:2, 2020 Read more The Rhythms of Life in the Himalaya Seasonality and Sociality among the Gurung People of the Nhāson Valley Jiban Mani Poudel International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology, 4:10, 2020 Read more ‘We Are in the Process’ The Exploitation of Hope and the Political Economy of Waiting Among the Aspiring Irregular Migrants in Nepal Ina Zharkevich Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, early online publication, 2020 Read more Social science news from and about Nepal ANNOUNCEMENTS The Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture 2020 The Present Epidemiological Moment and Bio-Politics from Below by Ranabir Samaddar (Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group) 7.15 pm, 7 December 2020, via Zoom Read more Bihari Krishna Fellowship for Ethnographic Research 2020 under the ‘PhD Dissertation-to-Book’ category Proposals are requested to convert PhD dissertations into books under the Bihari Krishna Fellowship for Ethnographic Research managed jointly by the Central Department of Anthropology (CDA), Tribhuvan University, and Social Science Baha Application deadline: 31 December 2020 Read more Call for Papers Proposals are invited for The Tenth Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya organised by Social Science Baha, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Britain-Nepal Academic Council, Centre for Himalayan Studies-CNRS & Nepal Academic Network (Japan) Conference dates: 28-30 July 2021 Abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2021 Read more NEW PUBLICATIONS Journals Books Journal Articles Book Chapters No submission Miscellaneous NEW RESEARCH Sajag-Nepal This new three-year interdisciplinary research project called 'Sajag-Nepal: Planning and Preparedness for the Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain' is funded through the UK Government’s Global Challenges Research Fund. The project brings together a team of researchers and practitioners from Nepal, the UK, Canada, and New Zealand, and from a range of disciplines including geoscience, social science, and the humanities, with the aim of reducing the impacts of earthquakes and landslides in the context of wider social, political and economic change. To learn more, follow @SajagNepal on Twitter, or email Katie Oven ( [email protected]) or Jeevan Baniya ( [email protected]). Nepal Heritage Documentation Project The Nepal Heritage Documentation Project (NHDP) is producing a comprehensive national inventory that helps to capture endangered and previously undocumented built heritage of Nepal with a focus on the Kathmandu Valley. NHDP started its work in Heidelberg and Patan in October 2018 as a cooperation between the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (University of Heidelberg), the Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Tradition and Culture, and the Department of Archaeology, Government of Nepal. Arcadia will fund NHDP for six more years to document more than 2000 monuments, 2500 inscriptions, 8000 objects, and the intangible cultural heritage associated with the monuments. The datasets collected by the project are publicly available in DANAM and HeidICON, both open-access databases. Impact of Federalisation on Nepal's Health System A Longitudinal Analysis This new three-year (2020-2023) project brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars from Nepal (Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences; PHASE Nepal) and the UK (Bournemouth University; University of Huddersfield; University of Sheield). Funded by the UK’s Health Systems Research Initiative, the project investigates the ways in which Nepal's move to a federal government structure is impacting on the health system at all levels—from local service delivery up to federal government policymaking. For more information about the project or the team, see https://www.nepalfederalhealthsystem.com. Anthropology of Inscriptions Memory and Cultural Heritage in the Public Sphere This start-up research project at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg, aims at investigating the crucial role inscriptions, graiti or other publicly displayed media of written communication have played for the construction and transformation of public places, socio-religious identities, remembering and value in the Kathmandu Valley. A selected corpus of inscriptions from the fieenth century to the present will be documented, edited and published in digital form. Textual data will be enriched by metadata, content annotations and linked with related digitally available ethnographic material (videos, oral histories, maps), monument documentations or archival sources. The Principal Investigators in this project are Christiane Brosius and Astrid Zotter. For more information, contact Simon Cubelic, Research Associate, at [email protected]. PhD Award Nawaraj Upadhaya of Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal was awarded a PhD degree by the Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in September 2020. His dissertation, ‘ Strengthening Mental Health Systems in Fragile Settings’ uses the concepts of medical anthropology and WHO’s health systems strengthening building blocks framework to explore the challenges and opportunities for mental health system strengthening in a low-resource setting like Nepal. The dissertation combined qualitative data with survey data from Chitwan district, which was a demonstration site for the evaluation of a district-wide mental health care plan. The study findings show that active participation of service users and caregivers and promoting supportive socio-cultural systems are vital for mental health system eorts in Nepal. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Disclaimer All the links provided here would be active at the time the Newsletter is sent out. Social Science Baha is not responsible for providing full access to published content. Newsletter archive The Newsletter is a periodic electronic publication from Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, featuring information and latest developments on Nepal-related social science activities. It will initially be oered as a bi-monthly service, and the frequency may change depending on demand and available content. The Newsletter is a free service of Social Science Baha's, in keeping with its mandate to contribute to Nepal’s social science knowledge generation and dissemination. The Newsletter consists of: i) Announcements: Calls for conference papers, invitations to be part of special issues of journals or edited volumes, news about conferences, workshops, seminars, lectures, etc, ii) Publications: Recently published books, book chapters, Nepal-specific journals, special issues of journals, and journal articles, working papers, occasional papers, published reports, bibliographies, etc, and iii) New research: Information about new social science research on Nepal, including recently completed PhDs. Any individual or institution can send submissions for inclusion in the Newsletter along the prescribed guidelines given below. Do also share with us materials by others you think would be useful to a larger audience. Submissions can be sent to [email protected] Guidelines 1. Announcements and New Research A brief description limited to 100 words, and, where required, a URL link or email address of the contact person for those interested in learning more. 2. New Publications Book: Image and title of the book; author(s); publisher and year of publication; URL link to the publisher’s page featuring the book, where available. Edited volume: Title of chapter; author(s); title of the book; editors(s); publisher and year of publication; URL link to the publisher’s page featuring the book, where available. Journals (including special issues): Name of journal and title of special issue (if any); guest editor(s) (if any); volume and issue numbers, and date of publication; URL link to table of contents of the journals, where available. Journal articles: Title of article; author(s); name of journal; volume and issue numbers, and date of publication; URL link to the article, where available. Working papers, occasional papers, reports, etc: Title of publication; author(s); name of publishing institution and year of publication; and URL link to the publication, where available. In cases when the URL is unavailable, i.e., the publication is only available in print and has no web link, you may submit the following as images/pdf and we will create an internal Google Drive link to the item for inclusion in the SSB Newsletter. Book/Journal: Cover page and table of contents of the book/journal. Book chapter/Journal article: Cover page and table of contents of the book/journal; the first page of the chapter/article as published. Suggestions on making the Newsletter more eective are most welcome. Managing Editor: Shalini Gupta Subscribe to the SSB Newsletter For users of Gmail, if you would like to see our email updates in your primary inbox, please drag this email from the Promotions tab to the Primary tab. You will then see our emails there from now on. Social Science Baha 345 Ramchandra Marg, Battisputali Kathmandu - 9, Nepal Phone: 977-1-4472807/ 4480091 email: [email protected] www.soscbaha.org Mailing address: GPO Box 25334, Kathmandu, Nepal
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December 2020 | Vol 3 No 2
Education and
DevelopmentVol 29 2019
(published October 2020)
Research Centre for
Educational Innovation and
Development (CERID)
Tribhuvan University
Read more
Journal of Education and
ResearchVol 10 No 2 2020
Kathmandu University
School of Education
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Samāj AdhyayanVol 15 2020
Martin Chautari
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Exorcising Ancestors
Conquering HeavenHimalayan Rituals in Context
Brigitte Steinmann
Mukta Singh Tamang
amp Thuden Gyalchen Lama
Vajra Books 2020
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Itihaska Thap Pristhaharu(in Nepali)
Govinda Tandan
Sangri-La Books 2020
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Jaat Varta(in Nepali)
Aahuti
Bela Publication 2020
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Nepalko Itihasma
Junga Bahadur(in Nepali)
Tri Ratna Manandhar
Manjari Publication 2020
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Tales from the HimalayaHenry Edmundson
Vajra Books 2019
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Tantra Ritual
Performance and Politics
in Nepal and KeralaEmbodying the
Goddess-Clan
Matthew Martin
Numen Book Series Vol 166
Brill 2020
Read more
Empowering Women through ParticipatoryAction Research in Community-Based
Disaster Risk Reduction EortsHanna A Ruszczyk Bijay Krishna UpadhyayYim Ming (Connie) Kwong Omkala Khanal
Louise J BrackenSushil Pandit amp Rajat Bastola
International Journal of Disaster Risk ReductionSpecial Issue on Gender Resilience and
Sustainability 51 2020Read more
Human Dimensions to Climate ChangeInsights from Case Study in the Nhāson Valley of
Nepal HimalayaJiban Mani Poudel
Journal of Tourism and Himalayan Adventures 22020
Read more
Redundancy Resilience RepairInfrastructural Eects in Borderland Spaces
Edward Boyle amp Sara ShneidermanVerge Studies in Global Asias 62 2020
Read more
The Politics of Border and Nation in Nepal inthe Time of Pandemic
Mallika ShakyaDialectical Anthropology 44 2020
Read more
Tool of Economic DevelopmentMetric of Global Health
Promoting Planned Families and Economized Lifein Nepal
Jan BrunsonSocial Science and Medicine 254 2020
Read more
Guarding the GuardsEducation Corruption and Nepalrsquos Commissionfor the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA)
David N Gellner amp Krishna P AdhikariPublic Anthropologist 22 2020
Read more
Killing the CriticalA Critical Discourse Analysis of Moral Values in
Government-Sponsored Textbooks of NepalSaroj GC
International Journal of English Literature andSocial Sciences 55 2020
Read more
Speaking is HealingDalit Women Gain a Voice through a Charismatic
Healing Movement in NepalAmar Bahadur BK
CasteA Global Journal on Social Exclusion 122020
Read more
The Rhythms of Life in the HimalayaSeasonality and Sociality among the Gurung
People of the Nhāson ValleyJiban Mani Poudel
International Journal of Anthropology andEthnology 410 2020
Read more
lsquoWe Are in the ProcessrsquoThe Exploitation of Hope and the Political
Economy of Waiting Among the Aspiring IrregularMigrants in NepalIna Zharkevich
Environment and Planning D Society and Spaceearly online publication 2020
Read more
Social science news from and about Nepal
ANNOUNCEMENTSThe Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture 2020
The Present Epidemiological Moment and Bio-Politics from Belowby
Ranabir Samaddar(Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies Calcutta Research Group)
715 pm 7 December 2020 via ZoomRead more
Bihari Krishna Fellowship for Ethnographic Research 2020under the
lsquoPhD Dissertation-to-Bookrsquo categoryProposals are requested to convert PhD dissertations into books under the
Bihari Krishna Fellowship for Ethnographic Researchmanaged jointly by the Central Department of Anthropology (CDA) Tribhuvan University
and Social Science BahaApplication deadline 31 December 2020
Read more
Call for PapersProposals are invited for
The Tenth Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalayaorganised by Social Science Baha Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Britain-Nepal Academic Council Centre for Himalayan Studies-CNRS ampNepal Academic Network (Japan)Conference dates 28-30 July 2021
Abstract submission deadline 15 January 2021Read more
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Journals
Studies in Nepali History and SocietyVol 25 No 2 2020
Martin Chautari
Read more
Books
Journal Articles
Vernacular Heritage as Urban Place-MakingActivities and Positions in the Reconstruction of Monuments
after the Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal 2015ndash2020
The Case of Patan
Christiane Brosius amp Axel Michaels
Sustainability 1220 2020
Read more
Book ChaptersNo submission
Miscellaneous
Photo Collection from fieldwork between 2018-2019 for the SSHRC Partnership Development
Grant lsquoExpertise Labour and Mobility in Nepalrsquos Post-Conflict Post-Disaster Reconstructionrsquo portrays
community membersrsquo experiences following the earthquakes of 2015 in three regions of Nepal
Bhaktapur Kathmandu Valley Borang Dhading Kartike Sindhupalchowk This photo collection is a
compilation of images taken by members of the Social Science Baha research team located in
Kathmandu Nepal
UBC cIRcle 2020
Read more
For a Better Future (research-based documentary) aims to capture the everyday lives of students
in government schools in Nepal amidst the uncertainties posed by the 2015 earthquake and the
COVID-19 pandemic
Uma Pradhan
Watch documentary
Transitioning From Hope to Optimism and Back AgainHanna A Ruszczyk amp Ramjee Bhandari
Antipode Online 2020
Read more
When Land Comes in the WayIndiarsquos Connectivity Infrastructure in Nepal
Constantino Xavier amp Riya Sinha
Centre for Social amp Economic Progress 2020
Read more
Baisakh 12 2072 (April 25 2015) ko Bhukampa ra Bidhyalaya Shiksha
Ek Sandarbha Suchi (in Nepali)
[The April 25 2015 Earthquake and School Education A Bibliography]
Rukh Gurung
Martin Chautari 2020
Read more
Bibliography on Technical and Vocational Education in NepalPrabhakar Pokharel amp Sanjeela Tamang
Martin Chautari 2020
Read more
Digital Rights in NepalA Preliminary Bibliography
Harsha Man Maharjan amp Sanjeela Tamang
Martin Chautari 2020
Read more
NEW RESEARCHSajag-Nepal
This new three-year interdisciplinary research project called Sajag-Nepal Planning and Preparedness forthe Mountain Hazard and Risk Chain is funded through the UK Governmentrsquos Global Challenges Research
Fund The project brings together a team of researchers and practitioners from Nepal the UK Canada andNew Zealand and from a range of disciplines including geoscience social science and the humanities with
the aim of reducing the impacts of earthquakes and landslides in the context of wider social political andeconomic change
To learn more follow SajagNepal on Twitter or emailKatie Oven (katieovennorthumbriaacuk) or Jeevan Baniya (jbaniyasoscbahaorg)
Nepal Heritage Documentation ProjectThe Nepal Heritage Documentation Project (NHDP) is producing a comprehensive national inventory that
helps to capture endangered and previously undocumented built heritage of Nepal with a focus on theKathmandu Valley NHDP started its work in Heidelberg and Patan in October 2018 as a cooperation between
the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (University of Heidelberg) the Saraf Foundation forHimalayan Tradition and Culture and the Department of Archaeology Government of Nepal Arcadia will
fund NHDP for six more years to document more than 2000 monuments 2500 inscriptions 8000 objects andthe intangible cultural heritage associated with the monuments The datasets collected by the project are
publicly available in DANAM and HeidICON both open-access databases
Impact of Federalisation on Nepals Health SystemA Longitudinal Analysis
This new three-year (2020-2023) project brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars from Nepal(Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences PHASE Nepal) and the UK (Bournemouth University
University of Huddersfield University of Sheield) Funded by the UKrsquos Health Systems Research Initiativethe project investigates the ways in which Nepals move to a federal government structure is impacting on
the health system at all levelsmdashfrom local service delivery up to federal government policymaking For moreinformation about the project or the team see httpswwwnepalfederalhealthsystemcom
Anthropology of InscriptionsMemory and Cultural Heritage in the Public Sphere
This start-up research project at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies University of Heidelbergaims at investigating the crucial role inscriptions graiti or other publicly displayed media of writtencommunication have played for the construction and transformation of public places socio-religious
identities remembering and value in the Kathmandu Valley A selected corpus of inscriptions from thefieenth century to the present will be documented edited and published in digital form Textual data will
be enriched by metadata content annotations and linked with related digitally available ethnographicmaterial (videos oral histories maps) monument documentations or archival sources The Principal
Investigators in this project are Christiane Brosius and Astrid Zotter For more information contact SimonCubelic Research Associate at simoncubelicuni-heidelbergde
PhD AwardNawaraj Upadhaya of Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal was awarded a PhD degree bythe Utrecht University the Netherlands in September 2020 His dissertation lsquoStrengthening Mental Health
Systems in Fragile Settingsrsquo uses the concepts of medical anthropology and WHOrsquos health systemsstrengthening building blocks framework to explore the challenges and opportunities for mental health
system strengthening in a low-resource setting like Nepal The dissertation combined qualitative data withsurvey data from Chitwan district which was a demonstration site for the evaluation of a district-wide
mental health care plan The study findings show that active participation of service users and caregiversand promoting supportive socio-cultural systems are vital for mental health system eorts in Nepal For
more information please contact upadhayangmailcom
DisclaimerAll the links provided here would be active at the time the Newsletter is sent out
Social Science Baha is not responsible for providing full access to published content
Newsletter archive
The Newsletter is a periodic electronic publication from Social Science Baha Kathmandu featuringinformation and latest developments on Nepal-related social science activities It will initially beoered as a bi-monthly service and the frequency may change depending on demand and availablecontent The Newsletter is a free service of Social Science Bahas in keeping with its mandate tocontribute to Nepalrsquos social science knowledge generation and dissemination
The Newsletter consists ofi) Announcements Calls for conference papers invitations to be part of special issues of journals oredited volumes news about conferences workshops seminars lectures etc ii) Publications Recently published books book chapters Nepal-specific journals special issues ofjournals and journal articles working papers occasional papers published reports bibliographiesetc andiii) New research Information about new social science research on Nepal including recentlycompleted PhDs
Any individual or institution can send submissions for inclusion in the Newsletter along theprescribed guidelines given below Do also share with us materials by others you think would beuseful to a larger audience Submissions can be sent to newslettersoscbahaorg
Guidelines1 Announcements and New ResearchA brief description limited to 100 words and where required a URL link or email address of thecontact person for those interested in learning more2 New PublicationsBook Image and title of the book author(s) publisher and year of publication URL link to thepublisherrsquos page featuring the book where availableEdited volume Title of chapter author(s) title of the book editors(s) publisher and year ofpublication URL link to the publisherrsquos page featuring the book where availableJournals (including special issues) Name of journal and title of special issue (if any) guest editor(s)(if any) volume and issue numbers and date of publication URL link to table of contents of thejournals where availableJournal articles Title of article author(s) name of journal volume and issue numbers and date ofpublication URL link to the article where availableWorking papers occasional papers reports etc Title of publication author(s) name of publishinginstitution and year of publication and URL link to the publication where available
In cases when the URL is unavailable ie the publication is only available in print and has no weblink you may submit the following as imagespdf and we will create an internal Google Drive link tothe item for inclusion in the SSB NewsletterBookJournal Cover page and table of contents of the bookjournal Book chapterJournal article Cover page and table of contents of the bookjournal the first page ofthe chapterarticle as published
Suggestions on making the Newsletter more eective are most welcome
Managing Editor Shalini Gupta
Subscribe to the SSB Newsletter
For users of Gmail if you would like to see our email updates in your primary inbox please drag this emailfrom the Promotions tab to the Primary tab You will then see our emails there from now on
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