Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal

Jeevan R. Sharma

• Editorial: Bloomsbury India
• Año: 2021
• ISBN:
  9789389449242
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Categoría: Relazioni internazionali

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.

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: Framing Nepal’s Social Transformation
• 2 From Subjects to Citizens: Maoist Insurgency and Local Perceptions of Social Change
• 3 Peasantry, Mobility and the Changing Face of Rural Nepal
• 4 Mobility and Educational and Occupational Futures
• 5 Development and Patronage Politics
• 6 Conclusion: Precarity and Paradox in Once-Remote Locations
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author