Impact of Implementation of Current Land Reform Policy in Nepal

Paudel, Damaru Ballabha; Saito, Katsuhiro

doi:10.18480/jjre.17.35

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“…Importantly, land reform within states in Global South nations is unlikely to impact the Global North and U.S. hegemony. For example, my own country of Nepal has attempted several land-reform initiatives (to different levels of success) in the decades following the Nepalese Civil War (Paudel and Saito 2015) that ended the historical monarchy following many years of armed conflict between Nepalese Maoists and the authoritarian government. Although the efforts to democratize Nepal and ongoing, and challenges remain due to continued governmental corruption (Paudel and Saito 2015), the changes Nepal has seen in developing a post-feudalist structure (or even the very act of revolution in 2006) have not impacted the global capitalist world-system and U.S. hegemony in any meaningful way.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For example, my own country of Nepal has attempted several land-reform initiatives (to different levels of success) in the decades following the Nepalese Civil War (Paudel and Saito 2015) that ended the historical monarchy following many years of armed conflict between Nepalese Maoists and the authoritarian government. Although the efforts to democratize Nepal and ongoing, and challenges remain due to continued governmental corruption (Paudel and Saito 2015), the changes Nepal has seen in developing a post-feudalist structure (or even the very act of revolution in 2006) have not impacted the global capitalist world-system and U.S. hegemony in any meaningful way. The issues of land and farm rights in this example appear to be entirely self-contained within the internal politics of Nepal, a periphery state that most people, institutions, and even "imaginaries" are unlikely to consider; that is, a nation that rarely gets any attention in discourse.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Anti-Systemic Movements in the Attention Economy

Bhandari¹

2023

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In recent decades, anti-systemic movements feature new forms of communication for organizing efforts: the use of information and communication technologies. Research on information and communication technologies suggests that mobile phones and internet access have increasingly facilitated horizontal communication for anti-systemic movements across the world-system, creating space for rapid and instantaneous organization and mobilization. However, existing scholarship benefits from a critical evaluation of claims about horizontality by addressing the political economy of information and communication technologies from a world-systems analysis perspective. Specifically, information and communication technology devices and platforms—from cellphones to social media channels—are designed by powerful corporations that are often based in powerful core and semi-periphery nations. The majority of these corporations are based in the hegemonic core of the United States. Within the present context of waning material resources across the world-system, these corporations profit from an online attention economy. Just as traditional material economies exploit the labor and natural resources from the periphery to extract wealth for core states, the attention economy exploits the psychologies and behaviors of periphery populations to extract wealth for core countries. Thus, some of the most powerful institutions in the world-system control the algorithms and structures where anti-systemic movements compete for peoples’ attention. This study utilizes the Mass Mobilization Data Project 1990-2018 historical dataset to determine which kinds of anti-systemic movements thrive as information and communication technology access expands globally. Using population-averaged negative binomial panel models on protest counts, I determine that as information and communication technologies expand, anti-systemic movements that are unlikely to threaten U.S. hegemony thrive, and conversely, anti-systemic movements that pose serious threats to U.S. hegemony and the present capitalist world-system are stifled. To unpack these findings, I draw from the cultural political economy approach, a framework that describes how some imaginations become a zeitgeist over competing imaginations for economic and political realities.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Type Of Anti-systemic Movement By "Protest Demand"mentioning

confidence: 99%