Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal

Caplan, Lionel; Macfarlane, Alan

doi:10.2307/3032360

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“…Kashigaun is a rural VDC two-days walk from the road head in Aaru Chanaute VDC. Indigenous Gurung and some long-term settler Dalit populate the VDC (Macfarlane 1976, Regmi 1990), which has three settlements: Yarsa, Kashigaun, and Chamakharka. Residents generally practice agropastoralism and wage labor.…”

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Contextualizing patterns in short-term disaster recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: household vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and change

Spoon¹,

Gerkey²,

Rai³

et al. 2023

E&S

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Disaster recovery is multidimensional and requires theoretical and methodological approaches from the interdisciplinary social sciences to illustrate short-and long-term recovery dynamics that can guide more informed and equitable policy and interventions. The 2015 Nepal earthquakes have had catastrophic impacts on historically marginalized ethnic groups and Indigenous households in rural locations, arising in the immediate aftermath and unfolding for years afterward. Analyzing factors that shape household recovery patterns can help identify vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities in addition to signaling potential future changes. We pursue this goal using survey data from 400 randomly selected households in 4 communities over 2 10-week intervals at 9 months and 1.5 years after the earthquakes. Building on previous research that used non-metric multidimensional scaling ordination to identify patterns among multiple indicators of recovery (Spoon et al. 2020a), we investigate associations among these patterns of recovery, hazard exposure, and four domains of household adaptive capacity: institutional participation, livelihood diversity, connectivity, and social memory. Our results suggest: (1) social inequality, high hazard exposure, and disrupted place-based livelihoods (especially for herders, farmers, and forest harvesters on the geographic margins) had strong associations with negative recovery outcomes and displacement; (2) inaccessibility and marginality appeared to stimulate ingenuity despite challenging circumstances through mutual aid and local knowledge; (3) recoveries were non-linear, differing for households displaced from their primary home and agropastoral practice and those displaced to camps; and (4) some households experienced rapid changes while others stagnated. We contribute a temporal dataset with a random sample collected following a disaster that uses a theoretically informed quantitative methodology to explore linear and non-linear relationships among multidimensional recovery, adaptive capacity and change and provide an example of how vulnerabilities interact with adaptive capacity.

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Section: Site Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualizing patterns in short-term disaster recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: household vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and change

Spoon¹,

Gerkey²,

Rai³

et al. 2023

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“…In fact, Hinduism often glorifies the idea of love between the sexes, as is evident from the variety of mythical love stories, such as Kamasutra, that abound in Sanskrit literature (Vātsyāyana 2009). It is clear that the positive emotional bond between husbands and wives is part of daily life for married couples in Nepal and that there is variation in the degree of this bond (Ahearn 2001;Allendorf 2009;Fricke 1986;MacFarlane 1976;Pasupathi 2002).…”

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“…This reduced motivation to leave the parental home is then expected to reduce the pace of entry into marriage because marriage is an important way children secure living arrangements away from parents (Goldscheider and Waite 1993;Thornton et al 2007). This is particularly likely in Nepal, where in contrast to settings like the United States in which young people often enjoy many different options for alternative living arrangements outside the parental home, marriage is the most common long-term, viable option (Fricke 1986;MacFarlane 1976;Pearlman et al 2017;Yabiku 2004). Young people in Nepal rarely live alone, with housemates, or in school or work dormitories.…”

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Parents’ Marital Quality and Children’s Transition to Adulthood

2020

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Unique longitudinal measures from Nepal allow us to link both mothers’ and fathers’ reports of their marital relationships with a subsequent long-term record of their children’s behaviors. We focus on children’s educational attainment and marriage timing because these two dimensions of the transition to adulthood have wide-ranging, long-lasting consequences. We find that children whose parents report strong marital affection and less spousal conflict attain higher levels of education and marry later than children whose parents do not. Furthermore, these findings are independent of each other and of multiple factors known to influence children’s educational attainment and marriage timing. These intriguing results support theories pointing toward the long-term intergenerational consequences of variations in multiple dimensions of parents’ marriages.

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“…Ethnicity in Nepal is complex, multifaceted, and related to religion. A full description of the ethnic groups residing in this setting is beyond the scope of this paper (for detailed descriptions of these groups see Acharya and Bennet 1981;Bennett 1983;Fricke 1986;Gellner and Quigley 1995;Guneratne 1994;Gurung 1980;MacFarlane 1976). We control for five classifications of ethnicity because of their vastly different propensities to use permanent contraceptive methods as well as their vastly different experiences with educational opportunities.…”

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Mass Education and Fertility Transition

Axinn

Barber

2001

Am Sociol Rev

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The relationship between the spread of mass education and fertility-limiting behavior is examined. Existing theories relating education to fertility limitation are integrated, including those relating the presence of educational opportunity to fertility decline, theories relating women's education to their fertility behavior, and theories relating children's education to the fertility behavior of their parents. Using survey data from a sample of 5,271 residents of 171 neighborhoods in rural Nepal, the individual-level mechanisms linking community-level changes in educational opportunity to fertility behavior are tested. A woman's proximity to a school during childhood dramatically increases permanent contraceptive use in adulthood. This finding is largely independent of whether the woman subsequently attended school, whether her husband attended school, whether she lived near a school in adulthood, and whether she sent her children to school. Strong fertility limitation effects were also found for husband's education and for currently living near a school. These effects were independent of other education-related measures. The largest education-related effect is for sending children to school.

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Resources and Population: A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal

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Contextualizing patterns in short-term disaster recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: household vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and change

Contextualizing patterns in short-term disaster recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: household vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and change

Parents’ Marital Quality and Children’s Transition to Adulthood

Mass Education and Fertility Transition

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