Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Times have changed,' is an expression commonly heard in Nepal in the years since the decade-long armed conflict between the Communist Party Nepal-Maoist and the Government of Nepal formally ended in 2006.For some, the phrase conveys a sense of loss for previously familiar facts of social life.For others, it signals the arrival of a brand new era, one in which inequalities based on caste, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion and region are giving way to legal and moral commitments to greater inclusivity and progressive social values.Ongoing violence against Dalits, women's unequal citizenship, calls for a Hindu state and the detainment of indigenous political activists are, however, evidence that times have not changed enough in Nepal for those situated outside the social-political elite.Regardless of how fast or slow time appears to change, the process of social transformation set in motion by the Maoiststate conflict is discernible not only in the realm of law and policy, but in the embodied and experiential domains of everyday, ordinary social interactions and practices.In this context, what it means to live through revolutionary social change and how social changes become incorporated and sustained in the intimacy of everyday life emerge as fundamental questions for contemporary Nepali society. 2 Ina Zharkevich's Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal skilfully explores these questions in an historically grounded, self-reflexive and Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal, by Ina Zhar...
DOI: 10.4000/ebhr.428
Author: Amy L Johnson
Institution: Northumbria University
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4286459880