The patchwork-built environment of Borang village, Dhading district, Nepal. 2020. Photo Sara Shneiderman.
Congratulation to Sara Shneiderman and her co-authors Bina Khapunghang Limbu, Jeevan Baniya, Manoj Suji, Nabin Rawal, Prakash Chandra Subedi, and Cameron David Warner who were awarded the Royal Asiatic Society’s 2024 Surya P. Subedi Prize for their article “House, Household, and Home: Revisiting Anthropological and Policy Frameworks through Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Experiences in Nepal” (Current Anthropology 64/5: 498-527, 2023).
The article is available on Open Access here: House, Household and Home: Revisiting Anthropological and Policy Frameworks through Postearthquake Reconstruction in Nepal in Current Anthropology (64)5, 2023
“...the article demonstrates that basic assumptions made by ordinary Nepalis are all too often ignored in government rules and regulations. As a consequence, these rules end up inconveniencing and even oppressing the very people they are supposed to help. The authors’ combination of anthropological theory and on-the-ground ethnographic observation has a lot to teach politicians and bureaucrats, not to mention other researchers and academics.”
The authors noted in their submission that:
The article emerges from a collaborative research project funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Beginning in 2017, the seven co-authors worked together closely to design research, carry out ethnographic fieldwork, analyze results, and write the article. Coming from multiple disciplines (Anthropology, Development Studies, and Political Science), at different points within our career trajectories (from recent MA graduates to Associate Professors), variously trained and employed within North American, European, and Asian university and NGO institutional frameworks, we believe that our article embodies the ideals of the Subedi prize by bridging multiple forms of knowledge about Nepal to achieve global impact.
