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Sociocultural and political change in Bhutan since the 1980s: reflections from a distance (2017)
Book Chapter
Hutt, M. (2017). Sociocultural and political change in Bhutan since the 1980s: reflections from a distance. In J. Dragsbæk Schmidt (Ed.), Development Challenges in Bhutan: Perspectives on Inequality and Gross National Happiness (19-27). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47925-5_2

This chapter argues that it can be instructive to compare sociopolitical developments in Bhutan with those in its close neighbour, Nepal, over the past three or four decades, and draws a number of parallels between them. It also argues for a more com... Read More about Sociocultural and political change in Bhutan since the 1980s: reflections from a distance.

Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal (2017)
Book
Hutt, M., & Onta, P. (Eds.). (2017). Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316771389

This book explores various domains of the Nepali public sphere in which ideas about democracy and citizenship have been debated and contested since 1990. It investigates the ways in which the public meaning of the major political and sociocultural ch... Read More about Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal.

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.

Reading Nepali Maoist Memoirs (2012)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2012). Reading Nepali Maoist Memoirs. Studies in Nepali history and society, 17(1), 107-142

A study of the Maoist memoir as a new literary genre in Nepali, focusing on five examples published since 2009.

The Catalogue of the Hodgson Collection in the British Library (2011)
Journal Article
Hutt, M., & Whelpton, J. (2011). The Catalogue of the Hodgson Collection in the British Library. European bulletin of Himalayan research, 39, 128-143

A report on the completion of the online catalogue of the Hodgson collection in the British Library, including a biography of Brian Houghton Hodgson (1901-94).

The Life of Bhupi Sherchan: Poetry and Politics in Post-Rana Nepal (2010)
Book
Hutt, M. (2010). The Life of Bhupi Sherchan: Poetry and Politics in Post-Rana Nepal. Oxford University Press

A biography of the Nepali poet Bhupi Sherchan (1935-89) that also examines the relationship between literature and politics in Nepal during the early democratic and Panchayat periods. The book include 40 photographs and English translations of 60 p... Read More about The Life of Bhupi Sherchan: Poetry and Politics in Post-Rana Nepal.