Section: Staff Profiles

Jeevan Sharma

Name
Dr Jeevan Sharma
Title
Lecturer in South Asia and International Development; Programme Director of the MSc in South Asia and International Development
Organisation
South Asian Studies, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
4.30 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
Telephone
+44 (0) 131 6511760
E-Mail
Research Interests
South Asia,HImalaya,Migrant labor,Political violence,Borderlands,Masculinities,Use of Research in Policy
URL
http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/jeevan_sharma

Jeevan Sharma joined the Social and Political Science in September 2011. Prior to this, he worked as a Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor at Feinstein International Center at Tufts University (Boston) where he conducted extensive fieldwork on Maoist insurgency, labour migration and social change in western Nepal, and taught graduate courses at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

He is a visiting professor of anthropology at Nepal School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Kathmandu). He has a wide range of interest in academic as well as policy research. Sharma has worked as a consultant for a number of development agencies (including DFID, World Bank, USAID, Care, Save the Children and FHI among others) working in South Asia. Between July 2007 and January 2009, he worked as Monitoring and Evaluation officer at Save the Children UK.

His current areas of research include marginal areas in South Asia, armed conflict and social transformation, labor mobility, border-crossing, transnationalism, livelihoods adaptation, international aid policy and practice, research collaboration and governance, and socio-cultural knowledge and planning. Over the last 2 years, he has secured  several grants to pursue a number of collaborative research projects. 

He is currently working on the following five externally funded projects:

- Promoting and governing experimental scientific enquiry: new modalities of competition and collaboration in South Asia (with with colleagues in Edinburgh, Durham, Mumbai, Kathmandu and Colombo), Funded by DFID-ESRC

- Sovereignty, globalization and the future of humanitarian action - analyzing experience from recent crises in Sri Lanka and Nepal (with Antonio Donini at Tufts University, Boston), Funded by DFID

- Labor, mobility and social transformation in Nepal (with Antonio Donini at Tufts University, Boston), Funded by Humanity United Foundation.

- Living in the margins: coping with flood risks and managing livelihoods in border villages in far-western Nepal (with colleagues at Tufts University, Boston), Funded by OFDA/USAID.

- Marginalised populations, social mobilisation and development (with Roger Jeffery, Hugo Gorringe and colleagues at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai), Funded by UKIERI.

Teaching (2011-2012)

Gender and Development

South Asia: Roots of Poverty and Development 

Qualifications

BA, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal

MA, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India

PhD, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Book Chapters

 "Aid and Violence: Development, Insurgency and Social Transformation in Nepal" (co-author with Antonio Donini), in Aparna Sundar and Nandini Sundar (eds), Civil War in South Asia: Sovereignity and Citizenship (Forthcoming)

“On the Way to India: Nepali Rituals of Border Crossing” (co-author with Sondra Hausner), in David Gellner (ed.), Borderlands in Northern South Asia, Duke University Press (Forthcoming, 2012).

“Migration, Marginality and Modernity: Hill Men's Journey to Mumbai", in Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Gerard Toffin, David Gellner (eds), Belonging in the Himalayas, Sage Publications (Forthcoming, 2012)

“Nepal: History and Trend of Migration”, in Ibrahim Sirkeci, Jeffrey H. Cohen, and Dilip Ratha (eds), Migration and Remittances during the Global Financial Crisis and Beyond, World Bank, page: 127-130. (Forthcoming, May 2012)

Journal Articles

(With Tristan Brusle and Karen Valentin, Co-eds) ‘Youth in Transit? Migratory practices of young South Asians’, special issue of Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, (Forthcoming)

“Marginal but cosmopolitan: Nepali labor migrants in India”, in Tristan Brusle, Jeevan Sharma and Karen Valentin (eds.), ‘Youth in Transit? Migratory practices of young South Asians’, Young: Nordic Journal of Youth Research, (Forthcoming)

“Culture of migration in the middle hills in Nepal”, Labor Migration: Opportunities and challenges for mountain livelihoods, ICIMOD Periodical, No. 59, October 2011. 18-20 

 “On State Reconstruction in Nepal,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45, No. 4, 20-23 (2010).

“Practices of Male Labour Migration from the Hills of Nepal to India in Development Discourses: Which Pathology?” Gender, Development and Technology, Vol. 12, No. 3: 303-323. 2008.

“Democracy in Nepal: Civil Society and Corruption Discourse in Nepal,” (in Nepali, with Sujeet Karn), Baha Journal, Year 1, No. 2: 32-55. 2005.

“Dissecting Migration Discourse in Nepal: Towards Deconstruction of Development,” Perspectives in Development, Vol. 1, No. 1: 23-35. 2005.

 Selected Reports

From Subjects to Citizens? Labor, mobility and social transformation in Rural Nepal (lead author, with Antonio Donini). Medford, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University (March 2012).

Sovereignty, Nationalism and the Future of Aid in Nepal, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, March 2012.

The impact of environmental change on work migration from Nepal to the Gulf States, Global Environment Migration (a project of Foresight, a UK government initiative), October 2011.

Towards a “great Transformation”? The Maoist Insurgency and Local Perceptions of Social Transformation in Nepal (lead author, with Antonio Donini), Feinstein International Centre, Tufts University, Medford, MA. 2010

The Resilience of Community Forestry User Groups in Conflict: Lessons from Nepal (co-author with Andrea Nightingale), LFP/DFID, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2010

Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Nepal Country Case Study (co-authored with Antonio Donini), Feinstein International Centre, Tufts University, Medford, MA. 2008.

 Book Reviews 

"Looking at Development and Donors" (book review), European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (March, 2012). 

“Cultures of Masculinity” (book review), Gender, Place and Culture, Vol. 15.3. 317-331. 2008.

“Paradise Lost? State Failure in Nepal (book review)” Contributions to Indian Sociology, 42.1: 157-160. 2008.

Other recent publications

"Enumerating Migration in Nepal: A Review", (with Sanjay Sharma), Working Paper 1, Center for the Study of Labour and Mobility, Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal, September 2011.

“Understanding the Nepali Exodus”, My Republica, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1 January 2011

“The Nature of Transformation” (Rupantaran ko swarup), Himal Khabarpatrika, Kathmandu, 5 October 2010

“New Political Class and Pseudo-Democracy,” The Kathmandu Post, 7 January 2003.

“Poor, Statistics and Professionals,” The Kathmandu Post, 12 January 2002.


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