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PROF Michael Hutt's Outputs (64)

Earthquake aftersongs: music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public (2021)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2022). Earthquake aftersongs: music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public. Popular Communication, 20(1), 42-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2021.1902529

The major earthquake that struck central Nepal in April 2015 inspired a flurry of literary and cultural production, including the creation and online publication of over 50 earthquake-related music videos. Although they share a common thematic focus,... Read More about Earthquake aftersongs: music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public.

Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution? (2020)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2020). Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution?. Conflict, Security & Development, 20(3), 379-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2020.1771848

Two significant institutional developments occurred in the aftermath of the major earthquakes that struck Nepal in 2015: a new national constitution was drafted and promulgated and a National Reconstruction Authority was established. The constitution... Read More about Before the Dust Settled: Is Nepal’s 2015 Settlement a Seismic Constitution?.

Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu (2019)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2019). Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu. The Journal of Asian studies, 78(3), 549-576. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819000172

On 25 April 2015 central Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake which killed over 9000 people and displaced 2.8 million. The image of the Dharahara, a nineteenth century minaret which collapsed during the quake, quickly became for many Nepali... Read More about Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu.

Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres' (2019)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2019). Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'. South East Asia Research, 27(1), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2019.1587925

This piece reflects on the decline of Area Studies in the Euro- American academy. Although it is sometimes presented and discussed as if it were a discipline, the paper argues that it may be easier to chart an afterlife for Area Studies if we conceiv... Read More about Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'.

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.

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)
Other
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.