TY - JOUR
T1 - The Material Politics of Citizenship
T2 - Struggles over Resources, Authority and Belonging in the New Federal Republic of Nepal
AU - Nightingale, Andrea J.
AU - Lenaerts, Lutgart
AU - Shrestha, Ankita
AU - Lama ‘Tsumpa’, Pema Norbu
AU - Ojha, Hemant R.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research and writing of this paper were supported by a Swedish Research Council Development Grant [grant no. 2015-03323], ‘Conflict, Violence and Environmental Change: Investigating Resource Governance and Legitimacy in Transitional Societies’ (2017). Andrea Nightingale’s writing time was funded by a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond sabbatical grant [SAB17-0727 (2018)]. Ankita Shrestha’s contribution is part of her doctoral research project which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement [grant no. 764908-WEGO 2018-2021].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/9/3
Y1 - 2019/9/3
N2 - Examining the boundaries of state–society–citizen–environment after the federal restructuring in Nepal, we ask how do people claim authority or citizenship rights? We theorise state power through the socio-environmental state framework as a set of socio-natural relations in the making, formed by struggles over authority, recognition and environment. Using qualitative data from Barpak, the epicentre of the 2015 earthquake, we capture the politics of natural resource governance that (re)emerged during earthquake reconstruction and local-level elections, illustrating how control over resources is negotiated, disputed, and inscribed in law (land titles and water sources) and landscapes (water sources, earthquake resettlement area, an open-air museum).
AB - Examining the boundaries of state–society–citizen–environment after the federal restructuring in Nepal, we ask how do people claim authority or citizenship rights? We theorise state power through the socio-environmental state framework as a set of socio-natural relations in the making, formed by struggles over authority, recognition and environment. Using qualitative data from Barpak, the epicentre of the 2015 earthquake, we capture the politics of natural resource governance that (re)emerged during earthquake reconstruction and local-level elections, illustrating how control over resources is negotiated, disputed, and inscribed in law (land titles and water sources) and landscapes (water sources, earthquake resettlement area, an open-air museum).
KW - Boundary-making
KW - disasters
KW - earthquake reconstruction
KW - federalism
KW - Nepal
KW - political ecology
KW - resource conflicts
KW - socio-environmental state
KW - state formation
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U2 - 10.1080/00856401.2019.1639111
DO - 10.1080/00856401.2019.1639111
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85071905355
SN - 0085-6401
VL - 42
SP - 886
EP - 902
JO - South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies
JF - South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies
IS - 5
ER -