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2017 Annual Kathmandu Conference On Nepal And The Himalaya, Michael Baltutis
2017 Annual Kathmandu Conference On Nepal And The Himalaya, Michael Baltutis
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Obituary | Mary Shepherd Slusser (1918–2017), Gautama V. Vajracharya
Obituary | Mary Shepherd Slusser (1918–2017), Gautama V. Vajracharya
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
The Political Potency Of Tibetan Identity In Pop Music And Dunglen, Anna Morcom
The Political Potency Of Tibetan Identity In Pop Music And Dunglen, Anna Morcom
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Since their beginnings in the 1980s, Tibetan pop music and dunglen (lute songs of northeastern Tibet) have shown strong expressions of Tibetan identity. They also represent a flourishing area of Tibetan language cultural production. This is significant after the repetitive propaganda songs of the Cultural Revolution and given the pressures and restrictions in Tibet on language and religion in particular. However, in this article, I critique straightforward interpretations of the Tibetanness of Tibetan popular music as representing a zone of assertion or resistance, arguing instead that the political potency of Tibetan pop music and dunglen is far more double-edged, coopted …
Verses Of Praise And Denigration: Finding Poetic Creativity In The Tibetan Election In Exile, Tsering Wangchuk
Verses Of Praise And Denigration: Finding Poetic Creativity In The Tibetan Election In Exile, Tsering Wangchuk
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Between October 2015 and March 2016, over ninety-thousand Tibetans in exile prepared to elect either Lobsang Sangay or Penpa Tsering as the new political leader of the Tibetan government in exile. In a negative campaign style, which was unprecedented in the history of the Tibetan democracy in exile, the two candidates were pitted against each other. Many Tibetans now reminisce with some remorse about how this election campaign stirred up tensions and animosity in the exile community. The campaign offered a germane platform to many Tibetan poets all over the world to express their opinions about their potential future leaders …
The State Of The Guitar In Kathmandu, Mason Brown, Samyog Regmi
The State Of The Guitar In Kathmandu, Mason Brown, Samyog Regmi
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
The thriving guitar scene in Kathmandu is not well known outside of the country, and particularly not in the West. It has also not been the topic of much recent scholarship. It has been assumed that for Nepalis the guitar, as a foreign instrument, represents freedom and modernity; but, is this true, and what else might it signify to Nepali guitarists themselves? This article gives an overview of the history of the guitar in Kathmandu by drawing on both published scholarship and interviews conducted by the authors with twelve prominent Nepalese guitarists and guitar educators to establish the current state …
Obscure Existential Narratives: Predetermination And Freedom In Nepalese Horoscopic Knowledge., Samuele Poletti
Obscure Existential Narratives: Predetermination And Freedom In Nepalese Horoscopic Knowledge., Samuele Poletti
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Nepali astrological divination can be seen as a form sense-making which, in providing access to the ‘hidden motifs’ attained to determine life events, mitigates the irreducibility of being-in- the-world by providing existential narratives. Conveying hope to act upon what is initially approached as a hopeless fate, astrological knowledge forwards the perception that troubling events, apparently out of control, are also liable to be acted upon. This reveals a permanent tension between ‘fatalism’ and ‘freedom’ that challenges rendering Nepal exclusively in fatalist terms, as argued by the Nepali anthropologist Dor Bahadur Bista. Yet, accounting for these reinterpretations requires a personally-tailored inquiry, …
Review Of Kailas Histories: Renunciate Traditions And The Construction Of Himalayan Sacred Geography By Alex Mckay, Himani Upadhyaya
Review Of Kailas Histories: Renunciate Traditions And The Construction Of Himalayan Sacred Geography By Alex Mckay, Himani Upadhyaya
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Trembling Mountain By Kesang Tseten, Austin Lord
Review Of Trembling Mountain By Kesang Tseten, Austin Lord
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Bodies In Balance: The Art Of Tibetan Medicine By Teresia Hofer, Denise M. Glover
Review Of Bodies In Balance: The Art Of Tibetan Medicine By Teresia Hofer, Denise M. Glover
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
100th Anniversary Celebrations Of The Men–Tsee–Khang & The Second Annual Conference Of The Tibetan Medicine Committee Of The World Federation Of Chinese Medicine Societies, Katharina Sabernig
100th Anniversary Celebrations Of The Men–Tsee–Khang & The Second Annual Conference Of The Tibetan Medicine Committee Of The World Federation Of Chinese Medicine Societies, Katharina Sabernig
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
100th Anniversary Celebrations Of The Men-Tsee-Khang - Lhasa, Tibet, Stephan Kloos
100th Anniversary Celebrations Of The Men-Tsee-Khang - Lhasa, Tibet, Stephan Kloos
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
5th Conference Of The Asian Borderlands Research Network (Abrn), Alessandro Rippa
5th Conference Of The Asian Borderlands Research Network (Abrn), Alessandro Rippa
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
A Dirge For Kathmandu, Benjamin Linder
A Dirge For Kathmandu, Benjamin Linder
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This poem was written on the night of April 25, 2015, the day a massive earthquake struck Nepal. It attempts to portray the emotional and physical experience of walking across Kathmandu (from Thamel to Kirtipur) in the disaster's immediate and chaotic aftermath.
Himalayan Facebook Fiction, Adrie S. Kusserow
Himalayan Facebook Fiction, Adrie S. Kusserow
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Community And Resilience Among Sherpas In The Post-Earthquake Everest Region, Pasang Y. Sherpa
Community And Resilience Among Sherpas In The Post-Earthquake Everest Region, Pasang Y. Sherpa
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
In this article, I examine how residents of the Mount Everest region of Nepal responded after two major earthquakes occurred on April 25th and May 12th, 2015. This article is based on my participant-observation of discussions among Sherpas, on-foot surveys of earthquake damage, and the experiences of residents, which I recorded in Pharak, between the two major seismic events. I also reviewed institutional activities and reports that pertained to the Everest region and spoke at length with other Sherpas. In these discussions, the boundaries of ‘community’ were both fluid and self-understood. A ‘sense of community’ and ‘resilience’ emerged as salient …
Becoming Rasuwa Relief: Practices Of Multiple Engagement In Post-Earthquake Nepal, Austin Lord, Galen Murton
Becoming Rasuwa Relief: Practices Of Multiple Engagement In Post-Earthquake Nepal, Austin Lord, Galen Murton
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
In this article, we reflect on the multiple nature of our engagements in the wake of the 7.8m earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25th 2015. Specifically, we trace the events, experiences, decisions, positions, and processes that constituted our work with a post-earthquake volunteer initiative we helped to form, called Rasuwa Relief. Using the concept of multiplicity (cf. Mol 2002), we consider the uncertain process by which Rasuwa Relief began to cohere, as a collective of diverse efforts, interventions, projects, and commitments, and how Rasuwa Relief was continually and multiply enacted through practices of engagement. As a collaborative effort that …
Disaster Governance And Challenges In A Rural Nepali Community: Notes From Future Village Ngo, Lai Ming Lam, Varun Khanna, Rob Kuipers
Disaster Governance And Challenges In A Rural Nepali Community: Notes From Future Village Ngo, Lai Ming Lam, Varun Khanna, Rob Kuipers
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
More than two years after the 2015 earthquakes devastated Nepal, Katunge village in Dhading district, Nepal, remained as destroyed as it was right after the earthquake. While the villagers were rather hopeful about rebuilding their houses and lives during the immediate relief effort in which we engaged, one month after the earthquake, now only a few are confident that they will ever rebuild their homes. In this article, we describe the reconstruction progress, followed by a critique of why the reconstruction progress has been so slow. We conclude with reflections on reconstruction challenges interwoven into the context of our NGO …
The Maintenance Of Virtue Over Time: Notes On Changing Household Lives In Post-Disaster Nepal, Andrew W. Haxby
The Maintenance Of Virtue Over Time: Notes On Changing Household Lives In Post-Disaster Nepal, Andrew W. Haxby
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Although it is banal to say the series of earthquakes that hit Nepal in Spring 2015 will radically change the country, what this change will consist of still remains undetermined. As many earthquake victims learn to make do in broken houses, tents, or corrugated tin structures, post-earthquake Nepal seems held within a frustrating stasis, wherein temporary hardship is often impossible to distinguish from lasting consequence. Yet this sense of stasis is in part misleading. While the act of building remains slow, households who lost their homes have been scrambling to rethink their financial futures in order to afford reconstruction. In …
Aftershock: Reflections On The Politics Of Reconstruction In Northern Gorkha, Rune Bolding Bennike
Aftershock: Reflections On The Politics Of Reconstruction In Northern Gorkha, Rune Bolding Bennike
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Many commentators have described the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal either (1) through the notion that ‘nothing is going on’ in regards to postquake reconstruction; or (2) through a celebration of grassroots resilience and urban entrepreneurship in the face of disaster and state neglect. In this article, I draw on observations from Kutang and Nubri in the mountains of northern Gorkha District to argue that neither of these descriptions is fully accurate. Even in this remote and inaccessible area, much was being done in the aftermath of disaster, and a great deal of this activity diverges, in multiple …
Himalayan Trauma: Administrative Thrombosis And Citizens’ Response, Robert E. Beazley
Himalayan Trauma: Administrative Thrombosis And Citizens’ Response, Robert E. Beazley
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
In this paper, the author uses excerpts from social media postings and traditional media to highlight how various citizen and volunteer responses to the 2015 earthquake helped fill in the gaps created by institutional dysfunction. Further, he shows how these two types of media played a critical role in facilitating communication between grassroots aid initiatives and earthquake affected people and their families and friends, not only in Kathmandu but also in neglected mountainous areas as well. The author uses a personal, reflexive approach to help situate the distinct experiences of earthquake affected people including trauma patients, people with disabilities, and …
Calculating Risk, Denying Uncertainty: Seismicity And Hydropower Development In Nepal, Christopher Butler, Matthäus Rest
Calculating Risk, Denying Uncertainty: Seismicity And Hydropower Development In Nepal, Christopher Butler, Matthäus Rest
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
If Ulrich Beck’s definition of ‘risk society’ describes societies increasingly structured by preoccupations with future environmental threats and related insecurities created by modernization, then Nepal’s hydropower community would appear to be quite the opposite, propelled into environmental denial by twin demands for domestic electricity and revenue earned through hydroelectric export. Our research reveals that prior to the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, the hydropower community was engaging in what Eviatar Zerubavel calls ‘socially organized denial,’ largely ignoring the uncertainties associated with seismic activity. Earthquakes and tremors were viewed as unavoidable realities that should not impede hydropower development. This denial, we …
Review Of Refugees Of Shangri-La By Doria Bramante And Markus Weinfurter, Andrew Nelson
Review Of Refugees Of Shangri-La By Doria Bramante And Markus Weinfurter, Andrew Nelson
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Religion And Modernity In The Himalaya Edited By Megan Adamson Sijapati And Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, James G. Lochtefeld
Review Of Religion And Modernity In The Himalaya Edited By Megan Adamson Sijapati And Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, James G. Lochtefeld
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Signing And Belonging In Nepal By Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, Theresia Hofer
Review Of Signing And Belonging In Nepal By Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, Theresia Hofer
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Annual Conference On South Asia, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa
Annual Conference On South Asia, Pasang Yangjee Sherpa
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
The Annual Kathmandu Conference On Nepal & The Himalaya, Swatahsiddha Sarkar, Babika Khawas
The Annual Kathmandu Conference On Nepal & The Himalaya, Swatahsiddha Sarkar, Babika Khawas
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
No abstract provided.
Fading Colors Of The Tibetan Prayer Flag, Emilia Roza Sulek
Fading Colors Of The Tibetan Prayer Flag, Emilia Roza Sulek
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
2014 was a Horse Year. Such a year, occurring every twelve years in Tibetan calendar, is considered the best time for a pilgrimage, particularly to sacred mountains. In the region of Golok, the most prominent of them is Amnye Machen (A myes rma chen). It takes about one week to perform circumambulation of Amnye Machen in the usual way: on foot. But in 2014, a new possibility opened: to perform the pilgrimage by car. This paper describes the experiences of a car pilgrimage around Amnye Machen which the author performed in 2014. It shows how different the new pilgrimage route …
Road Expansion And Urban Highways: Consequences Outweigh Benefits In Kathmandu, Prashanta Khanal, Anobha Gurung, Priyankar Bahadur Chand
Road Expansion And Urban Highways: Consequences Outweigh Benefits In Kathmandu, Prashanta Khanal, Anobha Gurung, Priyankar Bahadur Chand
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Rapid urbanization has transformed Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions in South Asia. This urbanization, in turn, is leading to considerable social, economic, and environmental stress. The region has seen unplanned growth despite continued planning exercises. In 2011, in response to the rapid urbanization then Prime Minster Baburam Bhattarai initiated road expansion throughout the city to reduce traffic congestion. By mid 2015, it was clear that the road expansion induced greater demand leading to further traffic congestion rather than alleviating the problem. Today, non-motorized (pedestrians and bicycle) road users are more unsafe on the roads than …
On The Road To Nowhere: Stalled Politics And Urban Infrastructure In Kathmandu, Dannah K. Dennis
On The Road To Nowhere: Stalled Politics And Urban Infrastructure In Kathmandu, Dannah K. Dennis
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
During the period leading up to the passage of the 2015 constitution in Nepal, the roads of Kathmandu were often interpreted by the city’s residents as symbols of the stalled constitutional process and of the faltering and corrupt nature of national politics in general. By detailing specific moments in which the inadequacy of roads and the inadequacy of the state were directly juxtaposed in everyday conversations, this article calls for sustained attention to the interrelationship between urban infrastructure and national- and local-level politics.
‘Inauthentic’ Sukumbasi: The Politics Of Aesthetics And Urgency In Kathmandu, Sabin Ninglekhu
‘Inauthentic’ Sukumbasi: The Politics Of Aesthetics And Urgency In Kathmandu, Sabin Ninglekhu
HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
This article discusses how claims of the urban poor for the right to the city come up against governmental programs seeking to secure norms of private property, environmental sustainability, and elite aesthetics. Here, the city in question is Kathmandu, Nepal, and the urban poor are referred to as sukumbasi, squatters. Baviskar (2011) defines ‘elite politics’ as a mode of expressing anxieties of the self in relation to one’s physical surroundings. I interpret a liberal environmentalist project— the Bagmati Action Plan—in terms of such an elite politics, and explore the ways in which this river restoration program was taken up by …