Title: Revisiting Development Discourse in Nepal:Turbulent Textile and Garment Industry as a Case Study Speaker: Mallika Shakya (Assistant Professor South Asian University, New Delhi) Date: October 6 (Mon.), 16.00-18.00, 2014 Place: AA447, 4th Floor, 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 [ Read More ]