Dr Sara Shneiderman is a socio-cultural anthropologist with long-term ethnographic commitments in the Himalayas and South Asia, and emerging research engagements in British Columbia, Canada. She serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology as well as in UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs/Institute of Asian Research. Her research explores how social transformation is shaped by dynamics of citizenship and belonging (in relation to Indigenous, ethnic, religious and gender identities); cross-border mobility; conflict and political mobilization; territory and land use; development discourses and practices; and disaster aftermath and preparedness. Click here for more information: https://shneiderman.arts.ubc.ca/

 

More information about the SSHRC Partnerhsip Development Grant, “Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disater Reconstrution”, as mentioned in the conversation is available here: https://elmnr.arts.ubc.ca/ You can also read more about the project and download publications at: http://reconstructingnepal.soscbaha.org/

 

Publications discussed in the podcast: Forthcoming in Current Anthropology "House, Household, and Home: Revisiting Anthropological and Policy Frameworks through Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Experiences in Nepal". Co-authored with Sara Shneiderman, Bina Khapunghang Limbu, Jeevan Baniya, Manoj Suji, Nabin Rawal, Prakash Chandra Subedi and Cameron David Warner.

 

2021 “The Ethnography of Collaboration: Navigating Power Relationships in Joint Research”. Collaborative Anthropologies 13(2), 56-99. DOI: 10.1353/cla.2021.0003. Co-authored with Omer Aijazi, Emily Amburgey, Bina Limbu; Manoj Suji, James Binks; Courtney Balaz-Munn, Katharine Rankin, and Sara Shneiderman. (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/782881) Acknowledgements for Collaborative Anthropologies paper: The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to our community partners in the three field sites in Bhaktapur, Dhading, and Sindhupalchowk districts, and to our institutional partners in Nepal: Social Science Baha, and the Central Department of Anthropology at Tribhuvan University. We would also like to thank our fellow partnership members for providing their invaluable feedback during workshops in Kathmandu, Nepal (2018) and Sandbjerg, Denmark (2019), and the three anonymous reviewers whose comments allowed us to develop and strengthen the focus of this paper. Field research in Nepal and all associated workshops were funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada through Partnership Development Grant Number: 890- 2016- 0011. Additional support was provided by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Faculty of Arts, the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and the University of Toronto in Canada; and by Aarhus and Copenhagen Universities in Denmark.

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Pratyoush Onta is Research Director at Martin Chautari, Nepal. He has written extensively about Nepali nationalism, Gurkha history, institutions, area studies, the politics of knowledge production, media and education. He is the founding editor of the journals Studies in Nepali History and Society (est. 1996) and Media Adhyayan (est. 2006, in Nepali; now renamed Samaj Adhyayan). 

For more information about Martin Chautari: https://martinchautari.10orbits.com/

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Sara Parker is an Associate Professor(Reader)in Development Studies at the Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. She has recently been elected chair of BNAC and is a committee member on the Britain Nepal NGO Network BRANNGO. She has conducted participatory action research in Nepal since 1994 and has worked in the areas of gender and education, ageing in Nepal and more recently as well as on the rise of fair trade in the 'Global South'. She is currently completing a British Academy-funded Global Challenges Research Fund project, Dignity Without Danger, exploring on menstrual stigma and taboos in Nepal. Sara is committed to collaborative research and also passionate about photography and travel and utilises a range of visual and participatory methods in her teaching, research and community engagement.
(https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-arts-professional-and-social-studies/humanities-and-social-science/sara-parker)

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Dr Shyam Sharma is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, 
Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University.  He is the author of books titled Writing Support for International Graduate Students,  Rethinking Education Across Borders,  Rethinking Education Across Borders and How to Write and Publish Effectively: Writing Support Group Guideline.  He has written about how U.S. universities are facilitating the academic transition and success of international graduate students. A former lecturer at the Tribhuvan University of Nepal, he is also an expert on higher education issues about Nepal and South Asia. 

Official Webpage: https://www.stonybrook.edu/experts/profile/shyam-sharma

Link to Video Series: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k1dxpv6Ot2EbIJUmWp3pMGgXAiCBTlnhiCADtLVAV0o/edit?usp=sharing

Resource Handbook: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mfi6pvCZyDWs2oGWV5-sZMviCWmEOcO1/view?usp=sharing

Video Story: https://youtu.be/8XAL-P_5-Lc

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Dr Ayushman Bhagat is Lecturer at Edge Hill University, UK. He completed his PhD Human Geography at the University of Durham in 2021. He is interested in multi-disciplinary approaches to research questions around the politics of ‘Human Trafficking’, ‘Modern Slavery’, and Forced Labour. Driven by a commitment to and frustration of implementing anti-slavery projects in South Asia, his research aims to highlight the voices and experiences of migrant workers in policy and scholarly discussions.

Official Webpage: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/person/dr-...

Research Publications are available here: https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/pe... 

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We are very pleased to present Series four of Nepal conversation podcast on the theme of Erasure. This series is presented jointly by the international research project - Heritage as Placemaking and Nepal Conversations.
You can find this series on Nepal conversations channels on YouTube, Spotify and SoundCloud as well as on the Heritage as Placemaking website. 
In this first episode of this series – we are very pleased to present Professor Kathryn S. March’s research on Western Tamang dancing and ripost songs known as Mhendomaya - Flowers of Love - to explore both continuity and change in this vibrant song tradition.

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In this first episode of Series 4 of Nepal Conversation podcast, we are very pleased to present Professor Kathryn S. March. This episode is divided into two parts. Part 1 is Professor Kathryn S. March’s Lecture on Western Tamang dancing and ripost songs known as Mhendomaya - Flowers of Love - that explore both continuity and change in this vibrant song tradition. Part 2 is our conversation with her. 
Co-host: Stefanie Lotter and Uma Pradhan

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This is Part 2 of the first episode of Series 4 of Nepal Conversation podcast. Here, we present our conversation with Professor Kathryn S. March. Part 1 is Professor Kathryn S. March’s Lecture on Western Tamang dancing and ripost songs known as Mhendomaya - Flowers of Love - that explore both continuity and change in this vibrant song tradition.

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Dr Christoph Emmrich is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. His work engages with fields as diverse as Nepalese and Burmese Buddhism, Sanskrit, Pali, Newar, Burmese and Mon literature and Tamil Jainism. His recent research includes the themes of girl children, young women and ritual specialists among the Newars in the Kathmandu Valley (Nepal) In today’s conversation, we will talk about his recent work on ‘Lists’ -  lists of things that are required for rites among the Newar Buddhists and Hindus of the Kathmandu Valley.
University Webpage - https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/christoph-emmrich

You can also listen to this conversation to this and previous episodes through the following links to our social media channels. 

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/nepalconversations
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6csaytWCb9tqhNXfQXg9z0
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiBX1GC2t_8YU4gHlLsX2nw  
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NepalConversations     
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NepalConversat1

For more information on this series -https://heritageasplacemaking.com/podcast

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In this Sixth episode of the Erasure Series, we are pleased to present our conversation with Dr Mallika Shakya.
Mallika Shakya is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at South Asian University. She is interested in interdisciplinary research methods and has been collaborating with poets and fiction- writers, filmmakers, and medical professionals, especially in her research on the borders within Southasia. Her writings have been published in leading academic journals focusing on economic anthropology and South Asian studies. Today, our conversation will follow up on her lecture titled - Narratives of Ageing, Narratives of Nation-building: Ralpha  and the Poetics of Dissident Poetry in Nepal.

More information about the podcast: https://heritageasplacemaking.com/podcast/#erasure 

Official Webpage: https://sau.int/faculty/mallika-shakya/

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Nepal Conversations is a podcast series where we talk to scholars and researchers about their interesting work on various aspects of Nepali society.

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