CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Limbu, Aruna |
|---|---|
| Title | Decolonizing Development: An Indigenous Resistance to State Colonialism in Bojheni Nepal |
| Summary | Hydropower development has been rampant in Nepal, given it is a prosperous country in the world regarding water resources. There are numerous hydro projects done and in the pipeline. These hydropower development projects are at the cost of indigenous people's land. This study focuses on the Hydroelectric Transmission Line and Power Station in Lapsiphedi (Bojheni) village in Shankharapur municipality in the northeast Kathmandu valley, where indigenous communities such as Tamang people are impacted. This research explores the divergent meanings of development being mobilized in an ongoing conflict between an indigenous community and a national electricity infrastructure project supported in coordination with the government's electricity authority (NEA). This research considers this local resistance to an infrastructural project to understand how and why the Tamang community in Nepal contests the dominant, state-led development discourse. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar and Wu Qiong (Miranda) Wu |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/limbu_aruna.pdf |
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