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Abstract: Do citizens resist bureaucratic governance, or do they seek to be recognized by it' Can everyday engagements with formal procedures be reduced to self-interested strategy or rationalized rule following' What are the politics of rule breaking' Such questions undergird the contributions to this special issue on bureaucracy and development in Nepal. Analyzing a diverse array of formalized practices, including income verification of clients at private banks, community managed road construction, and the regulation of housing reconstruction following the 2015 Great Nepal Earthquake, this special issue elucidates how bureaucratic procedures have become entwined with social practices often assumed to be beyond the purview ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Ram Kumar runs a grocery business with a storefront on the main street of Singati Bazaar, a market hub of northern Dolakha District located about 168 kilometers from Kathmandu in the middle hills of Nepal. He has recently purchased an excavator from which he earns additional income deriving from renting it out for various road building projects that have taken off in the area. In fact, he is also chair of the road users' committee (UC) tasked with building a section of rural road that connects to the highway running from the district capital, Charikot, through Singati, and terminating at Lamabagar in Dolakha's remote northern region. In rural Nepal, UCs are entrusted with constructing and improving rural roads, by ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Tin used to be for roofs. The sound of rain shattering against corrugated galvanized iron (CGI) was a status symbol. Only those with regular access to cash could replace the thatch, which absorbed the wet staccato of the monsoon. Some had opted for locally mined slate roof tiles—even more expensive than tin—but stone, too, swallowed the sound of water elegantly. Tin was more nouveau riche, garish in its loudness. Not only in sound, but also in color, often adorned in bright green or blue paint that competed with the trees and sky.All this changed after Nepal's earthquakes. With the old mud, stone and thatch houses brought to their knees, suddenly everything was made of tin. House walls, toilets (not only the walls ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In March 2016, I was talking with a Newar man in Kathmandu about a loan he was pursuing from a commercial bank. His house, which stood in the Newari city of Patan south of Kathmandu proper, had been badly damaged in the Great Nepal Earthquake of 2015, and he needed over 40 lākh (roughly 40,000 USD) to rebuild. Unfortunately, the bank had been stalling on approving his loan, a maddening development as he believed he was qualified. He had the collateral, having long owned the land that his house was built on. Likewise, he had income, both from running a ready-made clothing store in the business district of Patan and from selling jewelry he made at home. This man believed his life had all the trappings of a modern ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 2018, when one of the authors of this article (Angela) was doing field-work in northern Mozambique—a country of research interest to both authors—she ended up following a series of public consultations announcing a new mining project in the area. These consultations were organized by the mining company in the district's town and in the various villages that would be affected and resettled by the project. Angela was primarily interested in the topic of investor-induced displacement—the fact that the investor was a mining company was a coincidence. She actually knew very little about the resource that was going to be mined (graphite) and what it is used for. During the consultation meetings the project was ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Conference and Exhibition Centre of Seville, October 2022. For three days, a major event took place in the small world of Andalusian mining: the Mining & Minerals Hall*1 (MMH). This industrial conference featured a series of round tables and technical seminars on the theme of "sustainable mining"—the kind that is powered by solar panels and that claims to extract metals for the energy transition, while controlling its environmental impact thanks to technological advances. While ministers, European Commission officials, CEOs, and other lobbyists debated on the auditorium stage, two vast halls hosted a trade show where around 100 companies held a booth, competing in showing off their power through imposing machines ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The 4 x 4 SUV thundered across the bewilderingly featureless and dizzyingly flat surface of the Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salar, or evaporated lake. With me in the SUV was the head of communications at Planta Llipi, the Bolivian government's main lithium extraction facility under the direction of Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB), the state lithium company; the plant's head geologist, a curmudgeonly old hand with decades of experience doing geological work within various state and private extractive industries; and one of the plant's drivers, who seemed to be able to read the surface of the Salar despite what seemed to me to be an unnervingly vast and undifferentiated profile. We had turned off from ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Mineral extraction has reached unprecedented scale and intensity. More than ever, we seem to be "living in the mineral age" (Jacka 2018:62). Following the already significant expansion of the previous five decades (Ballard and Banks 2003, D'Angelo and Pijpers 2022:2), the demand for minerals has reached all-time highs with the growth of industries like electric vehicles, digital technologies, and the need for "clean" energy technologies such as wind turbines and solar panels to help decarbonize the economy. According to the International Energy Agency: "A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car," and "an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Allison Bloom's (2023) Violence Never Heals: The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women is a must-read for anthropologists and non-anthropologists alike. This ethnographic portrayal of Latina intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors seeking assistance from an IPVC (intimate partner violence center) in Connecticut offers an essential, yet historically overlooked account of the intersectional dynamics of health among immigrant Latina women in the United States: intimate partner violence (IPV), disability, and aging throughout the life course.Through richly detailed and poignant ethnographic portraits of Latina immigrant women's lived IPV experiences, Bloom offers a captivating, yet ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What's in a term' Terms can have the power to define reality and shape material and immaterial forms of oppression, resistance, and solidary. As such, Erin Durban's The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti (2023) pays careful attention to the terms surrounding "same-sex-desiring and gender-creative Haitians" (1). Through a rigorous interdisciplinary lens, the book attunes to how the post-2010 earthquake circulation of imported concepts such as "LGBT" (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) and "LGBTI" (inclusive of Intersex) by Evangelical Christians, on the one hand, and the global LGBTQI (inclusive of Queer) human rights movement, on the other, corresponded with imperialist logics of ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What is at stake in anthropological descriptions of difference' How might we consider what descriptions of difference reveal about their author' At a time when it has come to feel that to simply describe exotism or the denial of coevalness (Fabian 1983) of one's interlocutors does not get anthropologists far enough, Jewish Primitivism—a text written by a literary studies scholar about early twentieth century European ethnography of Jewish life—offers the discipline a treasure-trove of insights through which to re-approach long-standing anthropological debates around questions of otherness, catastrophic violence, the subject/object division in ethnography, and reason/unreason in anthropological knowledge ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The future to which Thomas Pearson speaks in An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different (2023) belongs to his daughter Micaela. As a child with Down Syndrome, she lives in a loving, active family, attends local public schools, and has an "ordinary" life, deeply entangled, as kids frequently are, with her siblings, kin, and neighbors. Throughout the book, Pearson compares his daughter's experiences to those of Neil Erikson, the fourth offspring of the famous child psychologist, Eric Erikson, born seventy years earlier, who was institutionalized immediately, living and dying outside of his family and community. Margaret Mead, a good friend of Erikson's, counseled him to ... Read More PubDate: 2024-06-14T00:00:00-05:00
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