Social science news from and about Nepal

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Registration open
Registration is now open for
The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal & the Himalaya,
28-31 July 2020.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference will be held online.
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Call for papers
The Kathmandu University School of Education invites submissions for the
Journal of Education and Research (JER).
Submissions can be made through the
JER online submission system on NepJOL  or on the KUSOED JER site.
For more information, contact jer@kusoed.edu.np.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS

Journals

The Gaze
Journal of Tourism and Hospitality
Vol 11, No 1, 2020
International School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Kathmandu
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Books

Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas
Holly Walters
Amsterdam University Press, 2020
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South Asia State of Minorities Report 2019
Migrants, Refugees and the Stateless
Edited by Deepak Thapa, Sudeshna Thapa & Ritika Singh
at Social Science Baha
The South Asia Collective, 2020
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Journal Articles

Book Chapters

Protection or Discrimination?
The Case of Nepal’s Policy Banning Female Migrant Workers
Richa Shivakoti
In Urban Spaces and Gender in Asia, edited by Divya Upadhyaya Joshi & Caroline Brassard
Springer, 2020
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Miscellaneous

Learning from Disasters
Nepal Copes with Coronavirus Pandemic 5 Years after Earthquake
Sara Shneiderman, Jeevan Baniya & Philippe Le Billon
The Conversation, 2020
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Subversive Maps
How Digital Language Mapping Can Support Biocultural Diversity
Maya Daurio, Sienna R. Craig, Daniel Kaufman, Ross Perlin & Mark Turin
Terralingua: Langscape Magazine, 2020
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NEW RESEARCH

Stephanie Butcher was awarded a PhD from University College London. Her dissertation is titled ‘The Everyday Politics of Water: Services and Citizenship for the Urban Poor in Kathmandu, Nepal’. This thesis focuses on the ‘everyday politics of water’ inside a single informal settlement in Kathmandu, Nepal, and how this shapes experiences of citizenship for diverse residents across the settlement. A key contribution of this thesis is an analytical framework unpacking the ‘everyday politics of water’.

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Newsletter archive

The Newsletter is a periodic electronic publication from Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, featuring information and latest developments on Nepal-related social science activities. It will initially be offered as a bi-monthly service, and the frequency may change depending on demand and available content. The Newsletter is a free service of Social Science Baha's, in keeping with its mandate to contribute to Nepal’s social science knowledge generation and dissemination.

The Newsletter consists of:
i) Announcements: Calls for conference papers, invitations to be part of special issues of journals or edited volumes, news about conferences, workshops, seminars, lectures, etc,
ii) Publications: Recently published books, book chapters, Nepal-specific journals, special issues of journals, and journal articles, working papers, occasional papers, published reports, bibliographies, etc, and
iii) New research: Information about new social science research on Nepal, including recently completed PhDs.

Any individual or institution can send submissions for inclusion in the Newsletter along the prescribed guidelines given below. Do also share with us materials by others you think would be useful to a larger audience.
Submissions can be sent to newsletter@soscbaha.org 

Guidelines
1. Announcements and New Research
A brief description limited to 100 words, and, where required, a URL link or email address of the contact person for those interested in learning more.
2. New Publications
Book: Image and title of the book; author(s); publisher and year of publication; URL link to the publisher’s page featuring the book, where available.
Edited volume: Title of chapter; author(s); title of the book; editors(s); publisher and year of publication; URL link to the publisher’s page featuring the book, where available.
Journals (including special issues): Name of journal and title of special issue (if any); guest editor(s) (if any); volume and issue numbers, and date of publication; URL link to table of contents of the journals, where available.
Journal articles: Title of article; author(s); name of journal; volume and issue numbers, and date of publication; URL link to the article, where available.
Working papers, occasional papers, reports, etc: Title of publication; author(s); name of publishing institution and year of publication; and URL link to the publication, where available.

In cases when the URL is unavailable, i.e., the publication is only available in print and has no web link, you may submit the following as images/pdf and we will create an internal Google Drive link to the item for inclusion in the SSB Newsletter.
Book/Journal: Cover page and table of contents of the book/journal.
Book chapter/Journal article: Cover page and table of contents of the book/journal; the first page of the chapter/article as published.

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