Nineteen Days in April: Urban Protest and Democracy in Nepal

Routledge, Paul

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“…This intertwinement rests significantly on the fact that Nepal has experienced a dramatic increase in its remittance economy (Government of Nepal, ; Sharma et al, ) that has further stimulated urban growth. Of equal significance for understanding Nepal's urban transformation is the fact that it has taken off in the midst of the armed conflict from 1996 to 2006 (for useful reviews of the conflict, see Adhikari & Gellner, ; Routledge, ; Gellner, ), and, as we shall show, the transformation has been partly driven by it. The historical context and the recent rapid change in both urban growth dynamics and migration patterns provide an opportunity for in situ studies of the concurrent largescale transformation in Nepal and make Nepal a relevant case for understanding the intersection between migration and urbanisation.…”

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The migration–urbanisation nexus in Nepal's exceptional urban transformation

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Agergaard

2019

Population Space and Place

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The dynamic relationship between urban transformation and migration pathways formed by multiple attractions and mobilities to, within, and beyond urban areas constitute what we, in this paper, refer to as the migration–urbanisation nexus. Drawing on case studies of urban growth in three urban sites of Nepal, this paper explores how migration practices, including rural–urban, international and return migration, and the migrant economy, exemplified by returns of remittances, intersect with the socioeconomic and spatial dynamics of urban growth. The analysis combines quantitative and qualitative data on migration pathways, including the historical timing of migration, the shifting drivers of rural–urban migration, and examinations of the links to an international migration and remittance economy. The findings show how rural–urban migration during the 10 years of conflict is setting urban growth in motion. However, most importantly, the analysis reveals how urban growth and form are stimulated by the migrant agency related to translocal migration economies, in particular, urban investments of international remittances. In conclusion, it is suggested that the migration–urbanisation nexus approach developed in this paper has potential to be used beyond Nepal in studies of migration and urban growth.

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The migration–urbanisation nexus in Nepal's exceptional urban transformation

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Agergaard

2019

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“…The twelve-point understanding signed in November 2005 between the Maoists and the mainstream parliamentary parties of Nepal, who had earlier formed an SPA declared a nineteen day-long Jana Andolan-II, from April 6, 2006to April 24, 2006, leading to the collapse of King Gyanendra's autocracy (Muni 2010: 16). In response, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a statement on April 5, 2006, alerting the country to the involvement of the terrorist group (i.e., the Maoists) in the anti-people general strike (Routledge 2010(Routledge : 1288(Routledge -1289. Finally, under pressure from all corners including political parties, the Maoists and the civil society, King Gyanendra reinstated government in April 2006.…”

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Child Combatants of the Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Nepal: A Human Rights Perspective, 1996–2013

Meher

2017

Jadavpur Journal of International Relations

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The study analyzes involvement of children in the decade-long Maoist armed conflict in Nepal, an issue of grave human rights violations. An armed conflict affects all sections of the society irrespective of caste, class, gender, region, and religion. However, children have been one of the most vulnerable groups in the Maoist conflict in Nepal. The decade-long Maoist conflict in Nepal has various implications on children such as disruption of education, separation from families, killing and maiming, illegal detention, disability resulting from the conflict, etc. Thus, there has been gross human rights violation of children during the conflict. But one of the worst forms of implications of the Maoist conflict has been the recruitment of children as combatants by the Maoist Army, otherwise known as the People’s Liberation Army, formed in 2001, in their fight against the state forces, which is the focus of this study. The article explores how the poor disadvantaged children have been the major target of recruitment by the Maoist. It discusses the role played by the child recruits during the conflict. Besides, it examines the role played particularly by the United Nations as well as the Nepali civil societies in the protection, rehabilitation, and reintegration of children into the civil society.

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“…Also in this issue, Allegra et al point out that ‘throughout history, cities have been the theatre of social and spatial struggles’ and that these have long been of interest to urban scholars (see also Routledge, 2010). Yet they argue that rethinking urban protest has not happened alongside the growing interest in rethinking the ‘theoretical and epistemological assumptions’ of urban studies.…”

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The racial state and resistance in Ferguson and beyond

Derickson

2016

Urban Studies

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This virtual special issue considers the empirical and theoretical resources that the back catalogue of Urban Studies specifically, and the discipline of urban studies more broadly, has to offer our understanding of the rapidly evolving contemporary moment in the USA, usefully dubbed 'The Age of Ferguson' (Bernard (2015); Derickson (forthcoming). Mobilising the concept of the 'racial state', this article considers Ferguson in the context of state rescaling and globalisation to continue to flesh out the role that difference and its geographical expression play in smoothing out and justifying the neoliberalisation of urban governance (see Derickson (2014)), and to begin to develop 'countertopographies' (Katz (2001)) that link up the margins of the Global North and South. In so doing, I engage each of the papers included in the special issue to consider how they contribute to and stretch our understanding of the present racial conjuncture, and to provide a first cut at thinking the Age of Ferguson relationally (Derickson, forthcoming; Jacobs (2012), through urban governance, racialisation, territorial stigmatisation' (Garbin and Millington (2012)), policing and urban social movements.

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Nineteen Days in April: Urban Protest and Democracy in Nepal

Cited by 13 publications

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The migration–urbanisation nexus in Nepal's exceptional urban transformation

The migration–urbanisation nexus in Nepal's exceptional urban transformation

Child Combatants of the Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Nepal: A Human Rights Perspective, 1996–2013

The racial state and resistance in Ferguson and beyond

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