第28回南アジア・インド洋世界研究会
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/ Asia Leadership Fellow Program
Seminar on:
Revisiting Development Discourse in Nepal:
Turbulent Textile and Garment Industry as a Case Study
Mallika Shakya
Assistant Professor
South Asian University, New Delhi
Date & Time: 6 October 2014, 16:00-18:00
Place: AA447, Research Building No. 2, Yoshida Main Campus, Kyoto
University ( http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/yoshida/main.html
Building no. 34 on the map)
SYNOPSIS: The end of the cold war was the beginning of a new era in South Asia. New political regimes dramatically displaced the old, while the new rhetoric of economic globalism and development overshadowed the earlier notions of national capitalism. I make sense of this paradigm shift through the everyday production and trade of textile and garments between Nepal and the United States. This industry in Nepal enjoyed a remarkable rise at the tail end of the cold war (1970s-1990s) but faced an abrupt end after 2001, bringing with it unprecedented consequences for the businessmen and workers involved. Based on my ethnographic fieldwork on the garment shop floors and trade union offices in Kathmandu, as well as my engagement with policymakers in Washington DC who regulated this industry globally, I suggest that the global politics of trade is turning Nepal into a new economic frontier of the post-cold-war era.
Contact: Tatsuro Fujikura, Department of South Asia and Indian Ocean
Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS),
Kyoto University
This seminar is co-organized by South Asia and Indian Ocean Study Group, INDAS International Seminar, and Asia Leadership Fellow Program