'Changing times': war and social transformation in Mid-Western Nepal

Thesis

This thesis is an ethnographic account of social change, triggered by the civil war in Nepal (1996-2006). Based on an ethnographic fieldwork in the village of Thabang, the war-time capital of the Maoist base area, this thesis explores the transformative impact of the conflict on people’s everyday lives and on the constitution of key hierarchies structuring Nepali society. Rather than focusing on violence and fear – the commonly researched themes in warzones – the thesis examines people’s e...

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Authors: Zharkevich, I

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: embodiment and embodied change; war-time social processes; Maoism; Maoist base area; everyday life during war; Nepal; Bourdieu; agency in conflict; practice theory; post-conflict reconstruction; anthropology of war and conflict; conflict zone; generation and conflict; People's War; revolution; civilians and guerillas; social change; guerilla enclave; youth; civil war; peasants; habitus; post-conflict societies
• Subjects: Conflict; Anthropology