1 hr 9 min
#22 BIG Podcast - “Nepal-India Border, Minorities and Cross-Border Networks” - With: Kalpana Jha, Analyst and Researcher at the University of Victoria Borders in Globalization Podcast
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Country of 27 million inhabitants, in the Himalayan mountain range, Nepal shares a border with India for 1690 km and with China for nearly 1,200 km. The majority of the inhabitants live in the south of the country (along the Indo-Nepalese border) and in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal became a republic in 2008 and the country adopted a new Constitution in 2015 which provides for a federal-type state, organized around 7 provinces which have their own assembly and executive power. A podcast about the State of Nepal, internal bordering processes, the marginalized people at its borders, notably the Madhesi People, and also the relations with India and China..
Time Markers
00:00 Our Guest today: Kalpana Jha
01:12 Cross-Border Unformal Networks and the shaping of Border Region
03:15 Interests of the Socio-Legal Approach for the Border Studies
05:59 Border, Legal Line of Separation, but also Living Region per se
10:22 How to Manage the Nepal Diversity?
13:10 Nepal: From Kingdom to Federal-type State.
18:30 Relations between Nepal and India
22:30 Nepal-India Border: An Open Border at the Daily Level
25:52 A Huge Wall on the Nepal-India border?
30:33 Cross-Border Governance of Rivers and Political Challenges
36:07 Nepal-China Relations Through Himalayas
41:59 Transboundary Infrastructures and Neighbouring Hard Powers
46:29 The Madhesi People Movement and Diversity of Nepal
50:17 Internal Bordering Processes and Geographical Features
56:15 The Identity of Madeshi People
1:00:23 Madeshi People as Transnational Community
1:04:40 New Legal and Political Recognition
1:06:01 Scenarios for Borderlanders and Cross-Border Communities
Websites:
BIG Website: https://biglobalization.org
JMN Website: https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/intd/europe/eu-grants/network/hmsdata-20-23/index.php
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2AL0HbO
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BordersInGlobalization
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Country of 27 million inhabitants, in the Himalayan mountain range, Nepal shares a border with India for 1690 km and with China for nearly 1,200 km. The majority of the inhabitants live in the south of the country (along the Indo-Nepalese border) and in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal became a republic in 2008 and the country adopted a new Constitution in 2015 which provides for a federal-type state, organized around 7 provinces which have their own assembly and executive power. A podcast about the State of Nepal, internal bordering processes, the marginalized people at its borders, notably the Madhesi People, and also the relations with India and China..
Time Markers
00:00 Our Guest today: Kalpana Jha
01:12 Cross-Border Unformal Networks and the shaping of Border Region
03:15 Interests of the Socio-Legal Approach for the Border Studies
05:59 Border, Legal Line of Separation, but also Living Region per se
10:22 How to Manage the Nepal Diversity?
13:10 Nepal: From Kingdom to Federal-type State.
18:30 Relations between Nepal and India
22:30 Nepal-India Border: An Open Border at the Daily Level
25:52 A Huge Wall on the Nepal-India border?
30:33 Cross-Border Governance of Rivers and Political Challenges
36:07 Nepal-China Relations Through Himalayas
41:59 Transboundary Infrastructures and Neighbouring Hard Powers
46:29 The Madhesi People Movement and Diversity of Nepal
50:17 Internal Bordering Processes and Geographical Features
56:15 The Identity of Madeshi People
1:00:23 Madeshi People as Transnational Community
1:04:40 New Legal and Political Recognition
1:06:01 Scenarios for Borderlanders and Cross-Border Communities
Websites:
BIG Website: https://biglobalization.org
JMN Website: https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/intd/europe/eu-grants/network/hmsdata-20-23/index.php
Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2AL0HbO
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BordersInGlobalization
Twitter: https://twitter.com/big_uvic
1 hr 9 min