Social Transformation in Post-conflict Nepal

Yadav, Punam

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“…We know from analysing conflict and post-conflict transitions that such crises can pose as an opportunity for social transformation 1. Given the humanitarian challenges of the ongoing pandemic, we think that covid-19 needs a public mental health focus.…”

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Covid-19 pandemic: a public and global mental health opportunity for social transformation?

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Tsamakis

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“…When women tempo drivers first entered the profession in the mid‐1990s, popular rumour suggested they might be prostitutes (Yadav, ). Several informants explicitly referenced these rumours as frustrating reminders that their wage earning came with a social cost.…”

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“…Over the past 10 years, the tempo workforce has become heavily feminized — the majority of drivers are now women. According to recent estimates there are approximately 700 women tempo drivers currently working in Kathmandu (Yadav, : 143). This is notable because other forms of public transportation such as taxis, hired cars, buses and microbuses are still overwhelmingly driven by men.…”

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“…In Nepal's media, women tempo drivers have been lauded as exemplars of a new modern woman who is no longer confined to the domestic sphere but instead enters the public sphere to work and earn a living (Yadav, ). Despite the public fêting of women in this occupation, however, the lived reality of women tempo drivers is marked by social, political and economic precarity.…”

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‘In This Profession We Eat Dust’: Informal and Formal Solidarity among Women Urban Transportation Workers in Nepal

Grossman–Thompson¹

2020

Development and Change

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This article considers the working lives of women who drive electric rickshaws, known as tempos, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the author examines drivers' precarious working conditions and the strategies they use in an effort to secure better conditions and job security. This case study illuminates the particulars of women tempo drivers' day-to-day experiences and also speaks to larger debates in feminist political economy surrounding women's entrance into the paid labour force, especially in South Asia. Women drivers provide a compelling example of how socio-economically disadvantaged women in industrializing and urbanizing cities of the global South find ways to create and protect spaces of dignified work and worker solidarity despite myriad challenges. Evidence from the research suggests that both informal and more formalized coping and resistance strategies are important mechanisms through which women seek to change the terms of their labour. Support for the research was provided by a US Student Fulbright, The University of Colorado at Boulder and California State University, Long Beach. The author would like to thank Kailash Rai and the journal's referees for their input and assistance.1. The exact date is debated, with a few individual women owning and driving tempos in the late 1980s. However, women entered the profession in greater numbers in the 1990s. Development and Change 51(3): 874-894.

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“…He performs violence because in the Nepali society, beating his wife, husband exhibits his manliness. Yadav (2016) exposes: "One-third of married women aged 15-49 experience emotional, physical and/or sexual violence from their spouses" (p. 49). In Prabhat"s case, his family members do not even try to discourage his violence against his wife.…”

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The Play of Gender Roles in Sheeba Shah’s Facing My Phantoms

Bista

2020

Prithvi Acad. J.

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Setting the novel in different time-periods (Rana regime, Panchayat System and Maoist movement), Sheeba Shah’s Facing my Phantoms has depicted the condition of Nepali males and is considered a historical document. This article aims to examine the factors that constrain the male characters to traditional and anti-traditional gender roles. It also studies the consequences faced by the characters while performing and defying gender stereotypes. To address this objective, Butler’s and Connell’s ideas have been used as they have claimed that masculinity and femininity like any other human attributes are fluid; in fact, it is constantly reconstructed in response to socio-political changes under the pressure of social norms. According to Butler, gender is something that is not a corporeal thing, but it is reproducing, changing, and moving. The significance of this article is to find insights in understanding the condition of males in the Nepali society. It concludes that the male characters of Shah’s novel oscillate between traditional and anti-traditional gender roles. Under the social pressure, they perform the roles of an assertive and authoritative father, aggressive and ruthless lover/husband, and rational and responsible son. Likewise, when they get influenced by socio-political changes, they fail to stick to stereotypical gender roles. Consequently, they appear in the emotional, docile, dependent, confused, and unassertive roles.

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Social Transformation in Post-conflict Nepal

Cited by 39 publications

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Covid-19 pandemic: a public and global mental health opportunity for social transformation?

Covid-19 pandemic: a public and global mental health opportunity for social transformation?

‘In This Profession We Eat Dust’: Informal and Formal Solidarity among Women Urban Transportation Workers in Nepal

The Play of Gender Roles in Sheeba Shah’s Facing My Phantoms

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