| Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal Contributor(s): Zharkevich, Ina (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108497462 ISBN-13: 9781108497466 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Asian - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 954.96 |
| LCCN: 2019012181 |
| Series: South Asia in the Social Sciences |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 8.3" W x 9.3" (1.00 lbs) 334 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist People's War (1996-2006) transformed Nepali society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with people who were located at the epicentre of the conflict, including both ardent Maoist supporters and 'reluctant rebels', it explores how a remote Himalayan village was forged as the centre of the Maoist rebellion, how its inhabitants coped with the situation of war and the Maoist regime of governance, and how they came to embrace the Maoist project and maintain ordinary life amidst the war while living in a guerilla enclave. By focusing on people's everyday lives, the book illuminates how the everyday became a primary site of revolution of crafting new subjectivities, introducing 'new' social practices and displacing the 'old' ones, and reconfiguring the ways that people act in and think about the world through the process of 'embodied change'. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zharkevich, Ina: - Ina Zharkevich is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. |
