My doctoral dissertation, Haircut: Stories from Nepal, is a collection of short stories set in contemporary Kathmandu, Nepal. My goal is to explore the lives of ordinary Nepalis grappling for meaning in a changing society. Caught as they are in the rapidly transforming socio-political map of ...
Transitions are rare periods of rupture that offer opportunities to reconceive the social meaning of past conflicts in an attempt to reconstruct their present and future effects. The peace-building initiatives unfolding in Nepal encourage a timely examination of the application of the right to ...
The soul of the roino: A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists, and the Indian Rhinoceros by Hemanta Mishra. Lyons Press, 2008 ($24.95) The subtitle may sound like hype, but it is a rare case of truth in labeling. Against ...
Second, I propose that the medicines and food aid obtained at health camps and food aid programs---which, in this dissertation, I refer to as aid commodities---come to have meaning, value, and uses that both relate to and extend beyond those immediately associated with medical treatment and...