Social Transformation in Post-conflict Nepal : A Gender Perspective PDF

by Punam (University of Sydney, Australia) Yadav

Part of the Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series series

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The concept of social transformation has been increasingly used to study significant political, socio-economic and cultural changes affected by individuals and groups.

This book uses a novel approach from the gender perspective and from bottom up to analyse social transformation in Nepal, a country with a complex traditional structure of caste, class, ethnicity, religion and regional locality and the experience of the ten-year of Peopleâ€™s War (1996-2006). Through extensive interviews with women in post-conflict Nepal, this book analyses the intended and unintended impacts of conflict and traces the transformations in womenâ€™s understandings of themselves and their positions in public life.

It raises important questions for the international community about the inevitable victimization of women during mass violence, but it also identifies positive impacts of armed conflict.

The book also discusses how the Maoist insurgency had empowering effects on women. The first study to provide empirical evidence on the relationship between armed conflict and social transformation from genderâ€™s perspectives, this book is a major contribution to the field of transitional justice and peacebuilding in post-armed-conflict Nepal.

It is of interest to academics researching South Asia, Gender, Peace and Conflict Studies and Development Studies.