'Post-conflict Borderlands: The Microdynamics of Violence in Nepal's Central-Eastern Tarai,' Jan. 18
by Michelle Saport |
Friday, Jan. 18, 10-11:30 a.m.
Social Sciences Building, Room 335
Join us as Kate Hohman Billmeier, Ph.D. candidate in development studies at the School
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and adjunct in UAA's Department
of Political Science, delivers a lecture titled "Post-conflict Borderlands: The Microdynamics
of Violence in Nepal's Central-Eastern Tarai," based around themes from her thesis.
About the thesis:
In Nepal, the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signaled to the world that
the war between the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) and the state had officially
ended. However, this thesis argues that in Nepal, post-conflict peace is not experienced
in the same way all the time, all over the place. As this thesis argues, the intersection
of temporal and spatial factors in Nepal has produced unique forms of violence that
challenge the discourse of post-conflict peace in that country. Based on one year
of ethnographic fieldwork in Nepal, this thesis examines the fluidity of violence
in the post-conflict period, specifically in the central-eastern Tarai Region between
2007 and 2009.
"'Post-conflict Borderlands: The Microdynamics of Violence in Nepal's Central-Eastern
Tarai,' Jan. 18" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
