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| ashu |
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on 09-Jan-04 10:24 AM
What follows may be of interest to Kathmandu-based Sajha folks.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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Social Science Baha
invites you to its
Lecture Series VII
Judith Pettigrew
on
Women, Ideology and Agency in Nepal's Maoist Movement
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Judith Pettigrew is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire. She is currently working on a book on the impact of the Maoist insurgency on rural civilians.
(The lecture is based on a paper Judith co-wrote with Sara Shneiderman of Cornell University for presentation at the annual conference of the American Anthropological Association in November 2003.)
Time: 5.00 pm
Date: 15 January, 2004 (Thursday)
Venue: Baggikhana, Yala Maya Kendra, Patan Dhoka
(Admission open to all. Please direct queries to 5542544/5543017. To reach Baggikhana, turn right into the gateway adjoining the Lalitpur District Post Office, about 50 metres before Pa! tan Dhoka while coming from the direction of the Engineering Campus.)
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| qallu |
Posted
on 10-Jan-04 06:32 PM
Ashu:
any way of getting hold of the paper and posting it here?
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| ashu |
Posted
on 10-Jan-04 10:03 PM
Qallu,
I'll be attending this lecture. Will request the organizers to put the relevant papers and abstracts on the Web.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| qallu |
Posted
on 10-Jan-04 10:33 PM
dhanya bad! maybe i'll let up on he tomoatoes then!
:)
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 10-Jan-04 10:37 PM
i don't think the author will put her work in web before they come out in a book which she is working for. As usual, in forum(s) like the above one expects suggestions/comments on the work. Quallu, expect to buy in future when you are really interested the topic....
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| qallu |
Posted
on 11-Jan-04 12:42 AM
"when"? you mean, if, right?
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 11-Jan-04 12:55 AM
Quallu, depends on author and willing publisher. When one venture in writing a book, i believe some prior arrangement is made with a publisher. As this book is a research based book, when it get published depends on the scope of the research. Ashu may help in this regard by quering her.... If it is in a peer reviewed academic journal it may take anywhere between 6 months to couple of years conditional on if it is of a publishable quality.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 15-Jan-04 05:51 PM
Some quick notes from Judith's lecture, which I attended yesterday.
Judith said that her research is still ongoing and that she still has to collect more ethnographic data and that conclusions she has drwan so far are tentative and suggestive.
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Maoists tend to recruit unmarried females between the age of 14 to 20.
They seem not interested in recruiting married females, even if such females are influential community leaders in their villages.
Young female cadres marry male cadres with the blessing of the party. Some thus married female cadres later complained that once they got married, their 'career' as
Maoists suffered. If they bore children, they were further bogged down all the more.
There is some evidence to suggest that the party uses marriage as a tool to exercise greater control over women recruits. Many new-born, born in the jungles, die.
A large per centage of Maoist women tend to be janajati women. There are all-women squads and all-women platoons, and there is evidence to suggest that women are in a few regional leadership positions.
Revolutionary International Maoist (RIM) writer Li Onesto has written approvingly (as of 2000) of the fact that the Maoist movement has challenged traditional gender roles.
There have been cases of women leaving the Maoist camps altogether to return to
their villages to live "normal" lives . . . only to be killed by security forces on charges
of being "Maoists".
Offering other examples and snippets of interviews, Judith's conclusions are two-fold: First, instead of more offering freedom, the Maoist movement seems to have restricted women's choices in terms of what they can do and canot do. Second, there is a huge gap between between the Maoist rhetoric and actions when it comes to women's empowerment. The Maoist leadership has not gone beyond the traditional notions of gender roles.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 15-Jan-04 06:09 PM
quite expected reply......
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| qallu |
Posted
on 16-Jan-04 06:15 AM
Thanks Ashu!
And its good to hear that genuine scholarship is revealing what observers having been noting about the Maoists anyhow that they are full of shit... the promise of liberation and empowerment for the oppressed, it be women or ethnic minoritites, is an illusion, a dangling carrot held out in front of people in desperation, people aspiring to yeild greater control over their life and lot.
Li Ornesto and other ideologues like her who go around acting like journalists, independent thinkers and true advocates of justice and freedom need to admit simply that they are whores of a worldview that cares not about how the "freedom" it persues for the masses comes at the cost of the masses. That it is not interested to addressing root caused of injustices and bringing about real change, just tooting its own horns and becoming the new lord and master.
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