Current Dynamics in Transforming Nepal

This book is an outcome of the three-day international conference which brought Nepali South Asian and other international scholars of anthropology sociology and other social sciences into dialogue about the contemporary issues pertaining to the theories and practices of their respective disciplines. The articles published in this book have covered a wide range of socialcultural and development-related issues. These comprise: gender and womanhood developmentintervention and forced marginalization; transition to sustainability; social mobilization and governance; education health and nutrition; cultural identities and culture conservation; Maoist movement and its effects; community laws; migration; media and reporting; federalism; climate change and its impacts; natural resource management; production of public knowledge; social and cultural change; disability and suffering; social exclusion; poverty; human rights and security and symbolic violence. Anthropologists sociologists and other social scientists working both in Nepal and abroad in academia as well as applied fields have made contributions to this edited volume of the book.