{"id":543,"date":"2018-05-28T16:29:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T20:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infrastructuresofdemocracy.geog.utoronto.ca\/?p=543"},"modified":"2019-01-15T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:20:46","slug":"workshop-report-social-and-political-transformation-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infrastructuresofdemocracy.geog.utoronto.ca\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Workshop Report: Social and political transformation in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Katharine Rankin and I recently participated in a two day workshop in Copenhagen Denmark at Aarhus University entitled&nbsp;<em>Social and political transformation in Nepal: ethnographic perspectives on state- citizen relations<\/em>. The workshop was organized by Uma Pradhan and Karen Valentin who are both based at the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University. The purpose of the workshop was to collaboratively reflect on different ethnographic perspectives of the state in Nepal, specifically through the lens of the \u201crelational spaces\u201d of state-citizen encounters. Katharine presented a paper entitled&nbsp;<em>Corruption, road building and the politics of social science research in post-conflict Nepal<\/em>&nbsp;that was co-authored with IOD project members Tulasi Sigdel, Pushpa Hamal and myself. I also presented a paper building on my dissertation work in Jumla, entitled&nbsp;<em>Farmers, Civil Servants and \u201cInclusive Business\u201d Engineers: Making agricultural markets in Jumla, Nepal.<\/em>&nbsp;The workshop was a wonderful opportunity to meet and engage with a number of scholars based at Aarhus University currently working in Nepal in a focused and productive space. The papers covered a range of topics from education and mobility, to informal settlements and urban greening. Across these different \u201cfaces\u201d of the Nepali state, we were able to identify key convergences and tensions, bringing us to reflections about the geographies of the state and shared questions about where the state begins and ends. We are looking forward to future collaborations and publication plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsie Lewison<br>Department of Geography and Planning<br>University of Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/infrastructuresofdemocracy.geog.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IOD-Aarhus-Workshop-2018-05-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infrastructuresofdemocracy.geog.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IOD-Aarhus-Workshop-2018-05-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/infrastructuresofdemocracy.geog.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IOD-Aarhus-Workshop-2018-05-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/infrastructuresofdemocracy.geog.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IOD-Aarhus-Workshop-2018-05-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katharine Rankin and I recently participated in a two day workshop in Copenhagen Denmark at Aarhus University entitled&nbsp;Social and political transformation in Nepal: ethnographic perspectives on state- citizen relations. The workshop was organized by Uma Pradhan and Karen Valentin who are both based at the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University. 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