Andrew Nelson


Andrew Nelson Entered 2005 asn8p@virginia.edu
Sociocultural Anthropology Regional focus: Urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal; South Asian Cities Topical interests: Urban Anthropology, South Asian Architecture & Housing, Spatial Theory, Cinema & Media, Sport, History of Anthropology in Nepal My current research concerns the ‘housing boom’ and (sub)urbanization of Kathmandu Valley. This work is located in Kathmandu’s expanding urban periphery, which is shifting from Newar farmland to residential space inhabited by middle-class urban dwellers looking for more land and rural migrants seeking their ‘own house’ in the capital. Specifically, I’m looking at the relationship between the production of the built environment – land plots, houses, public spaces, temples, roads, public utilities – and social relations of post-insurgency ‘new Nepal’. MA Thesis: (University of London, SOAS): 2004. A Strange Phenomenon in a Strange Country’: American Media Coverage of the Nepali Maoist Insurgency. Publications: 2010. ‘No Horn Please’: Sociality and Self-Governance in a Kathmandu Housing Colony. In Anjaria, J. & C. McFarlane, eds. Urban Navigations: Politics, Space, and the City in South Asia. Routledge. 2009. From ‘Unmodern Sherpas’ to Madhesi Cricketers: Towards a History of Nepali Sport. International Journal of the History of Sport.

Entered 2005
asn8p@virginia.edu

Sociocultural Anthropology

Regional focus: Urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal; South Asian Cities

Topical interests: Urban Anthropology, South Asian Architecture & Housing, Spatial Theory, Cinema & Media, Sport, History of Anthropology in Nepal

My current research concerns the ‘housing boom’ and (sub)urbanization of Kathmandu Valley. This work is located in Kathmandu’s expanding urban periphery, which is shifting from Newar farmland to residential space inhabited by middle-class urban dwellers looking for more land and rural migrants seeking their ‘own house’ in the capital. Specifically, I’m looking at the relationship between the production of the built environment – land plots, houses, public spaces, temples, roads, public utilities – and social relations of post-insurgency ‘new Nepal’.

MA Thesis: (University of London, SOAS): 2004. A Strange Phenomenon in a Strange Country’: American Media Coverage of the Nepali Maoist Insurgency.

Publications:

2010. ‘No Horn Please’: Sociality and Self-Governance in a Kathmandu Housing Colony. In Anjaria, J. & C. McFarlane, eds. Urban Navigations: Politics, Space, and the City in South Asia. Routledge.
2009. From ‘Unmodern Sherpas’ to Madhesi Cricketers: Towards a History of Nepali Sport. International Journal of the History of Sport.