13Mar 2013 by annual

26 July: Panel Presentations

Panels/Sessions 2013

2013 [sta_anchor id="Pauline Limbu"] [sta_anchor id="Gregory Pierce"] Day 3: 26 July (Friday) Panel 7 9 – 10:30 am Chair: Steven Folmar, Assistant Professor Cultural/Applied Anthropology, Wake Forest University Pauline Limbu Junior Research Fellow, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities History and Political Movements: Kipat in Today’s Limbuwan Movement Gregory Pierce PhD Candidate, Human Ecology, LUCID Research Centre, Lund University, Sweden The Embodiments of Ice and Bone: Dualistic Ideologies, ‘Permanence Through Certainty’, and The Phenomenology of Being of Dolpo Discussant: Ajaya N Mali, Tutor, Nepā School of Social Sciences and Humanities [sta_anchor id="Joanna Morrison"] BREAK: 10:30 – 11 am Panel 8 11 am – 1 pm Chair: Kathryn March, Professor of Anthropology [sta_anchor id="Vikas Paudel"] and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies, Cornell University Joanna Morrison Senior Research Associate, University College London Institute for Global…

13Mar 2013 by annual

25 July: Panel Presentations

Panels/Sessions 2013

2013 [sta_anchor id="Sudeep Jana Thing"] Day 2: 25 July (Thursday) [sta_anchor id="Soma Kumari Rana"] [sta_anchor id="Christopher Butler"] Panel 4 9 – 11 am Chair: Sudhindra Sharma, Executive Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts Sudeep Jana Thing PhD Candidate, Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University, Western Australia Politics of Conservation and Space: National Park and Sonaha Ethnic Minorities Soma Kumari Rana Programme Officer (GESI), SSMP/HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal Shiva Kumar Shrestha Senior Programme Officer, SSMP/HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation, Nepal [sta_anchor id="Gérard Toffin"] Decentralising the Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Approach to the Local Level: Challenges and Opportunities Christopher Butler PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz Water Unites, Water Divides: Resistance to the West Seti and Upper Karnali Dams in Nepal [sta_anchor id="Kanako Nakagawa"]Discussant: Christie Lai Ming Lam, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University BREAK: 11 am –…

13Mar 2013 by annual

24 July: Panel Presentations

Panels/Sessions 2013

2013 Day 1: 24 July (Wednesday) [sta_anchor id="Sudhindra Sharma"] [sta_anchor id="Lok Ranjan Parajuli"] Opening remarks: Nirmal Man Tuladhar, Chair, Social Science Baha [sta_anchor id="Thomas Robertson"] Panel 1 9 – 11 am Chair: David Holmberg, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University Sudhindra Sharma Executive Director, Interdisciplinary Analysts Sujan Ghimire Research Officer, Interdisciplinary Analysts Bandana Gyawali Gautam PhD Candidate, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki Modernity Prior to the Era of Development: Forestry Management, Domestic Water Supply, and ‘Pragati’ during the Rana Period Lok Ranjan Parajuli Visiting Research Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago From Controlling Access to Crafting Minds: Experiments in Basic Education in Late Rana Nepal Thomas Robertson Associate Professor, Humanities Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute A Lowland Plague in a Himalayan Country: A Historical Political Ecology of Disease in…

17Jul 2012 by annual

Dilli Ram Dahal

Bio Note

Dilli Ram Dahal (MA, PhD, University of Hawaii), Professor of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University (currently retired ), works as a freelance consultant. His recent project research works include: i) Team Leader of the project ‘Social Inclusion and Group Mobilization in Nepal’ out by the Center for Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, and NIBR, Norway (2006-2009); ii) Economic Policy Network II, a project jointly carried out by the Ministry of Finance, Government of Nepal, Fulbright Consultancy, Nepal and the Asian Development Bank (2008-2010); worked as the Thematic Expert on ‘Social inclusion and Human Development Unit’. Some recent publications include:National Dalit Strategy Report (Vol I, II and III) (2002), ‘Inclusion/Exclusion in Nepal: Issues of Dalit Empowerment and Development’, Anthropology/Sociology of Nepal (2010); ‘Social Exclusion and Group Mobilization: A Case Study of Yadavs…

17Jul 2012 by annual

Inequality and Affirmative Action in Nepal: Issues and Challenges

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Krishna B. Bhattachan & Dilli Ram DahalThe larger objective of the paper is to consider how inequality is produced and how affirmative measures are being taken in Nepal over the years and the prospects for affirmative action as a strategy for addressing inequality in Nepal. Particularly, this paper explores the nature of the respective preferential policy/reservation packages of the government, political parties and the non-governmental organizations, the ways they are written and implemented and their impacts to the concerned groups as a whole. Broadly, these issues are discussed at four levels: i) Concepts of in equality and reservation/affirmative action, ii) Why reservation is necessary for certain groups, iii) Reservation policy: packages of the government, political parties and other various agencies, and iv) Problems, issues and schemes for reservation.

17Jul 2012 by annual

‘Women and Men Are the Two Wheels of the Chariot’: Rhetoric and Realities of Quotas for Women in Politics and Governance in Nepal

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Ram B. Chhetri This paper discusses women’s participation in governance (local, district and central level), describes initiatives taken to increase women’s involvement, and highlight factors that facilitate or inhibit women’s participation in public activities, including governance. The arrangement of quota for women in local and national governance through policy and legal instruments have made a difference in the way the public governance landscape looks at present in terms of gender representation. The affirmative action taken by the state and its implications for women’s empowerment will be examined by presenting selected case studies. I will also discuss some socially and culturally grounded ideals on the issues of women’s involvement in public arenas. The information comes from a study that looked at the status (depth and breadth) of women’s participation in…

15Jul 2012 by annual

Workshop Participants

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Conservation Participants: Dr Babu K Dallakoti, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, bdallakoti@gmail.com Dr Bhisma Subedi, ANSAB, bhishmasubedi@ansab.org Dr Dharma R Dangol, IAAS, Rampur Campus, dharmadangol@hotmail.com Dr Krishna Prasad Oli, ICIMOD, koli@icimod.org Dr Rajendra KC, Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, rkc_nep@yahoo.com Dr Sangita Shrestha, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, sangita7@hotmail.com Dr Shandesh Bhattarai, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, bhattaraishandesh@yahoo.com Dr Subarna Bajracharya, FinTRAC, USAID, sbajracharya@fintrac.com Dr Sushim R Baral, Department of Plant Resources, Thapathali, srbaral@wlink.com.np Mr Bhola Bhattarai, FECOFUN/NAFAN Nepal, nafannepal8@gmail.com Mr Giridhar Amatya, LiBIRD, Pokhara, gamatya@libird.org Mr Gyanendra Karki, KIRDAC, Jumla, k.gyanendra@mail.org Mr Karma Bhutia,TMI, kbhutia@mountain.org Mr Purushottam Aryal, WUPAP, Jumla, aryal.puru@gmail.com Mr Sanjeev Shrestha, SNV Nepal, SShrestha2@snvworld.org Mr Pankaj Das, Herbs and NTFPs Coordination Committee, Kathmandu, pankajkdas@gmail.com Mr Ram P. Acharya, PSPL, Nepal, ram.pacharya@gmail.com Mr Ananta Bhandari, WWF…

14Jul 2012 by annual

Public–private Partnerships in Resource Commercialization Focused to NTFPs

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Dipesh Pyakurel and Bhesh Raj Oli The value of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) has been recognized widely with its increasing contribution to the Nepalese economy. Collection and trade of NTFPs is a major source of rural income and contributes from 10% to 100% of the total annual income in some hilly areas. The major categories within the NTFPs trade/export comprise of crude herbs, essential oils, fibers & handmade papers, ayurvedic products, cosmetics and vegetable oils. Commercialization of resources, specially the enterprise and business promotion of NTFPs through Public–private partnership (PPP) model has been sought as essential by the recent study carried out for Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) and Nepal Herbs and Herbal Products Association (NEHHPA) in process of developing a NTFPs business promotion strategy. The strategy…

14Jul 2012 by annual

Beyond Affirmative Action: Overcoming Social Inequalities in Higher Education

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Pramod Bhatta This paper describes the various social inequalities that exist in Nepal’s higher education and provides a critical analysis of the ways in which affirmative action is posited as an obvious response to address these inequalities. The paper delves into the ways in which inequality in education is understood and debated in the Nepali context, often resulting in very ‘confused’ and blanket responses to addressing them. It argues that while affirmative action may be a highly popular and a widely accepted method of addressing graded inequalities in higher education, it is not the only way per se and that further clarity is required on what the term constitutes. Given that many of Nepal’s inequalities in higher education stem from an unequal base (i.e., school education), the paper concludes that…

14Jul 2012 by annual

Pramod Bhatta

Bio Note

Pramod Bhatta is a researcher based at Martin Chautari, a research institution based in Kathmandu. His work at MC has focused on researching various issues related to school and higher education in Nepal, including training of graduate students to carry out research on inequalities in Nepal’s higher education.