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Online Gender Activism in India and the Participation of the Indian Diaspora, 2012–2015 (2016)
Book Chapter
Dey, A. (2016). Online Gender Activism in India and the Participation of the Indian Diaspora, 2012–2015. In A. Karatzogianni, D. Nguyen, & E. Serafinelli (Eds.), The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere Conflict, Migration, Crisis and Culture in Digital Networks (149-168). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50456-2_8

Adrija Dey examines the online gender activism and role of Indian immigrants who physically could not be at events and took to social media to voice their opinion and contribute to the process of change. When talking about the use of ICTs for gender... Read More about Online Gender Activism in India and the Participation of the Indian Diaspora, 2012–2015.

A Brief Exploration of the Effects of ICTs and Social Media on the Gender Activism in India Post December 16th 2012 (2016)
Book Chapter
Dey, A. (2016). A Brief Exploration of the Effects of ICTs and Social Media on the Gender Activism in India Post December 16th 2012. In C. Cerqueira, R. Cabecinha, & S. I. Magalhães (Eds.), Gender in Focus: (New) Trends in Media (187-204). CECS - Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade Universidade do Minho

Over the last few decades, while information and communication technologies (ICTs) and social media have been increasingly popular and a widely used tool for activism around the world, it is only in the recent past that people have started using thes... Read More about A Brief Exploration of the Effects of ICTs and Social Media on the Gender Activism in India Post December 16th 2012.

Writers, Readers, and the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels (2014)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2014). Writers, Readers, and the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels. Himalaya (Portland, Or.), 34(2), 18-30

In his seminal book Literature, Popular Culture and Society, Leo Lowenthal argues that studies of the representation of society, state, or economy in the literature of a particular country or time contribute to our knowledge of ‘the kind of perceptio... Read More about Writers, Readers, and the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels.

Nepal's Internal Conversation (2014)
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Hutt, M. (2014). Nepal's Internal Conversation

Interview with Michael Hutt about his career as a scholar and translator of Nepali literature

The Last Himalayan Monarchies (2014)
Book Chapter
Hutt, M. (2014). The Last Himalayan Monarchies. In G. Toffin, & J. Pfaff-Czarnecka (Eds.), Facing Globalization in the Himalayas: Belonging and the politics of the self (419-443). SAGE Publications

This chapter analyses the the contrasting fortunes of the Shah monarchy of Nepal, which was abolished in 2008, and the Wangchuck monarchy of Bhutan, which appears to have secured its future by promoting a process of limited democratisation.

The disappearance and reappearance of Yogmaya: recovering a Nepali revolutionary icon (2013)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2013). The disappearance and reappearance of Yogmaya: recovering a Nepali revolutionary icon. Contemporary South Asia, 21(4), 382-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2013.856380

In Nepal, it is widely believed that in 1941 Yogmaya, a female religious ascetic, and 60 of her disciples drowned themselves in the Arun River. In many of her ‘utterances’ (bani), preserved in a book that was effectively banned in Nepal for 40 years,... Read More about The disappearance and reappearance of Yogmaya: recovering a Nepali revolutionary icon.