Michael Hutt
Biographic Data
| ID | 199983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Hutt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Hutt |
| SIGNATURE | HUTT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3869-6096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Epicentre to Aftermath
Epicentre to Aftermath makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the growing body of disaster studies literature by providing an analysis of a disaster aftermath that is steeped in the political and cultural complexities of its social and historical context. Drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines, the book highlights the political, historical, cultural, artistic, emotional, temporal, embodied and material dynamics at pla…
Earthquake aftersongs
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, these videos’ representations of the earthquake aftermath and the Nepali people’s response to the disaster diverge from one another in some important respects. Through a detailed analysis of the lyri…
The Changing Face of Nepal
The huge disparity between the well-resourced, cosmopolitan capital, Kathmandu, and the still very basic living standards in other parts of the country remains glaring
Before the dust settled
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 had been promised for over seven years, and was now completed within just over three months, while it took seven months for a Bill establishing the NRA to be passed in parliament. Many commentators h…
Area Studies and the importance of ‘somewheres
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 conceive of it as a multidisciplinary field that is predicated upon the significance of place and context, and on the importance of ‘somewheres’
Revealing What Is Dear
On April 25, 2015, central Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed over 9,000 people and displaced 2.8 million. The image of the Dharahara, a nineteenth-century minaret that collapsed during the quake, quickly became for many Nepalis an iconic representation not only of the disaster but also of a national determination to recover and rebuild. Drawing upon media and literary discourse in the Nepali language, this article asks wh…
Ganga Bahadur’s books
Based on literary research and interviews conducted in Kathmandu, this article takes as its starting point the contents of a bookcase belonging to an ex-Maoist combatant now living in retirement in Kathmandu and the “syllabus” promulgated by the then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) for the ideological training of its cadres. It goes on to chronicle the process by which a number of “landmark ‘proletarian novels’” (Denning 2007 Denning, Michael. …
The disappearance and reappearance of Yogmaya
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, Yogmaya called upon the Rana government to establish a dharmarajya, a religious state. The mass suicide is now interpreted as an act of protest at the Ranas' failure to meet this demand. However, the…
Singing the new Nepal
Nepal's adoption of a new national anthem in 2007 reflected a decision to establish a new social and political order that was republican, federal and inclusive of the country's many minority communities. It came after a ten‐year internal conflict, and was followed by the abolition of the Shah monarchy that had ruled the country since the late eighteenth century. This article describes the historical and political context of the decision to replac…
Resistance and the state
A Nepalese Triangle
I manage to visit Nepal just about every year, usually these days for only about three weeks and usually during the monsoon. I was last there in June/July this year and I was struck by the great ch
Nepal and Bhutan in 2005
Whether monarchy and democracy can coexist was the key question in both Bhutan and Nepal during 2005. Two developments in Nepal will be major factors in determining the survival of the Shah dynasty and, in the longer term, whether the Nepalese nation-state survives as a sovereign entity at all. These were the “royal coup” of February 1 and the agreement between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and seven parliamentary political parties announ…
Things that Should not Be Said
Scholars and researchers across a range of disciplines increasingly “read ” South Asia only in English. After all, the subcontinent produces English-medium scholar-ship, journalism, and creative literature in copious measure, and the Indian novel in English occupies a dominant position on the world literature stage. That culture is
Unbecoming Citizens
This book recounts the plight of some hundred thousand refugees of Nepali ethnic origin (also known as the Lhotshampa or ‘Southern Borderlander’) who claim to have been wrongfully evicted from Bhutan. None of them have returned to Bhutan after their eviction in the early 1990s. The author begins his examination of their plight by discussing the history of Bhutan as it appears in British colonial archives and in current standard national narrative…
Nepal and Bhutan in 2004
As small states located on the south side of the eastern Himalaya, Nepal and Bhutan are superficially very similar. In both countries, a monarchy is in the process of renegotiating its position and role, and in both, the current political dispensation faces strong challenges. However, there are also distinct differences in how political developments are proceeding in Nepal and Bhutan
Unbecoming Citizens
Monarchy, Maoism and democracy in Nepal
A survey from the literature of plants used to treat scorpion stings
Going to Mugalan
Bhutan in 1996
Research Article| February 01 1997 Bhutan in 1996: Continuing Stress Michael Hutt Michael Hutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (2): 155–159. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645482 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Hutt; B…
Bhutan
Ethnic Nationalism, Refugees and Bhutan
Bhutan in 1995
Research Article| February 01 1996 Bhutan in 1995: Weathering the Storm Michael Hutt Michael Hutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (2): 204–208. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645818 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Hutt…
Hodgson and the Hanuman Dhoka
Brian Houghton Hodgson lived and worked at the British Residency in Kathmandu from1820 to 1843, and served as British Resident in Nepal for the last ten of these years.1 Hedied in 1894, and some 25 years after his death Perceval Landon wrote: Some time ago my attention was arrested by the remark of Mr. Cecil Bendall who, writing in 1886, while Hodgson was still alive, referred to him as ‘the greatest, and least thanked of all our English Resident…
Himalayan 'People's War'
Himalayan 'People's War'
Ethnic Nationalism, Refugees and Bhutan
Unbecoming Citizens
This book recounts the plight of some hundred thousand refugees of Nepali ethnic origin (also known as the Lhotshampa or ‘Southern Borderlander’) who claim to have been wrongfully evicted from Bhutan. None of them have returned to Bhutan after their eviction in the early 1990s. The author begins his examination of their plight by discussing the history of Bhutan as it appears in British colonial archives and in current standard national narrative…
Before the dust settled
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 had been promised for over seven years, and was now completed within just over three months, while it took seven months for a Bill establishing the NRA to be passed in parliament. Many commentators h…
Singing the new Nepal
Nepal's adoption of a new national anthem in 2007 reflected a decision to establish a new social and political order that was republican, federal and inclusive of the country's many minority communities. It came after a ten‐year internal conflict, and was followed by the abolition of the Shah monarchy that had ruled the country since the late eighteenth century. This article describes the historical and political context of the decision to replac…
Things that Should not Be Said
Scholars and researchers across a range of disciplines increasingly “read ” South Asia only in English. After all, the subcontinent produces English-medium scholar-ship, journalism, and creative literature in copious measure, and the Indian novel in English occupies a dominant position on the world literature stage. That culture is
Drafting the Nepal Constitution, 1990
An account of the process of drafting Nepal's new democratic constitution, which was finally promulgated in November 1990, with an analysis of its content and of the roles played by various actors, including the royal palace
Refugees from Shangri-la
For centuries the Himalayan kingdoms between India and China have inspired the romantic longings and imaginings of Westerners, who believe them to be out of time and beyond change. One by one, these miraculous realms have been swallowed up or absorbed into the real world. Only Bhutan remained, the image of the 'last Shangri-la'. Now even that is threatened
A Hero or a Traitor? the Gurkha Soldier in Nepali Literature
Area Studies and the importance of ‘somewheres
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 conceive of it as a multidisciplinary field that is predicated upon the significance of place and context, and on the importance of ‘somewheres’
Nepal and Bhutan in 2005
Whether monarchy and democracy can coexist was the key question in both Bhutan and Nepal during 2005. Two developments in Nepal will be major factors in determining the survival of the Shah dynasty and, in the longer term, whether the Nepalese nation-state survives as a sovereign entity at all. These were the “royal coup” of February 1 and the agreement between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and seven parliamentary political parties announ…
Going to Mugalan
Ganga Bahadur’s books
Based on literary research and interviews conducted in Kathmandu, this article takes as its starting point the contents of a bookcase belonging to an ex-Maoist combatant now living in retirement in Kathmandu and the “syllabus” promulgated by the then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) for the ideological training of its cadres. It goes on to chronicle the process by which a number of “landmark ‘proletarian novels’” (Denning 2007 Denning, Michael. …
A Nepalese Triangle
I manage to visit Nepal just about every year, usually these days for only about three weeks and usually during the monsoon. I was last there in June/July this year and I was struck by the great ch
Nepal and Bhutan in 2004
As small states located on the south side of the eastern Himalaya, Nepal and Bhutan are superficially very similar. In both countries, a monarchy is in the process of renegotiating its position and role, and in both, the current political dispensation faces strong challenges. However, there are also distinct differences in how political developments are proceeding in Nepal and Bhutan
Bhutan in 1996
Research Article| February 01 1997 Bhutan in 1996: Continuing Stress Michael Hutt Michael Hutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (2): 155–159. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645482 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Hutt; B…
Bhutan in 1995
Research Article| February 01 1996 Bhutan in 1995: Weathering the Storm Michael Hutt Michael Hutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (2): 204–208. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645818 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Hutt…
Neon Lights and Vedic Caves
Language, Literature and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Nepal, School of Oriental and African Studies, 17th-18th April 1989
A Hero or a Traitor? the Gurkha Soldier in Nepali Literature
Drafting the Nepal Constitution, 1990
An account of the process of drafting Nepal's new democratic constitution, which was finally promulgated in November 1990, with an analysis of its content and of the roles played by various actors, including the royal palace
Refugees from Shangri-la
For centuries the Himalayan kingdoms between India and China have inspired the romantic longings and imaginings of Westerners, who believe them to be out of time and beyond change. One by one, these miraculous realms have been swallowed up or absorbed into the real world. Only Bhutan remained, the image of the 'last Shangri-la'. Now even that is threatened
Himalayan Voices
While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal today. An introduction to the two most developed genres of modern Nepali literature--poetry and the short story--this work profiles eleven of Nepal's mo…
Hodgson and the Hanuman Dhoka
Brian Houghton Hodgson lived and worked at the British Residency in Kathmandu from1820 to 1843, and served as British Resident in Nepal for the last ten of these years.1 Hedied in 1894, and some 25 years after his death Perceval Landon wrote: Some time ago my attention was arrested by the remark of Mr. Cecil Bendall who, writing in 1886, while Hodgson was still alive, referred to him as ‘the greatest, and least thanked of all our English Resident…
Bhutan
Ethnic Nationalism, Refugees and Bhutan
Bhutan in 1995
Research Article| February 01 1996 Bhutan in 1995: Weathering the Storm Michael Hutt Michael Hutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1996) 36 (2): 204–208. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645818 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Hutt…
Bhutan in 1996
Research Article| February 01 1997 Bhutan in 1996: Continuing Stress Michael Hutt Michael Hutt Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (2): 155–159. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645482 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael Hutt; B…
A survey from the literature of plants used to treat scorpion stings
Going to Mugalan
Monarchy, Maoism and democracy in Nepal
Unbecoming Citizens
This book recounts the plight of some hundred thousand refugees of Nepali ethnic origin (also known as the Lhotshampa or ‘Southern Borderlander’) who claim to have been wrongfully evicted from Bhutan. None of them have returned to Bhutan after their eviction in the early 1990s. The author begins his examination of their plight by discussing the history of Bhutan as it appears in British colonial archives and in current standard national narrative…
Nepal and Bhutan in 2004
As small states located on the south side of the eastern Himalaya, Nepal and Bhutan are superficially very similar. In both countries, a monarchy is in the process of renegotiating its position and role, and in both, the current political dispensation faces strong challenges. However, there are also distinct differences in how political developments are proceeding in Nepal and Bhutan
Unbecoming Citizens
Nepal and Bhutan in 2005
Whether monarchy and democracy can coexist was the key question in both Bhutan and Nepal during 2005. Two developments in Nepal will be major factors in determining the survival of the Shah dynasty and, in the longer term, whether the Nepalese nation-state survives as a sovereign entity at all. These were the “royal coup” of February 1 and the agreement between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and seven parliamentary political parties announ…
Things that Should not Be Said
Scholars and researchers across a range of disciplines increasingly “read ” South Asia only in English. After all, the subcontinent produces English-medium scholar-ship, journalism, and creative literature in copious measure, and the Indian novel in English occupies a dominant position on the world literature stage. That culture is
A Nepalese Triangle
I manage to visit Nepal just about every year, usually these days for only about three weeks and usually during the monsoon. I was last there in June/July this year and I was struck by the great ch
Resistance and the state
Singing the new Nepal
Nepal's adoption of a new national anthem in 2007 reflected a decision to establish a new social and political order that was republican, federal and inclusive of the country's many minority communities. It came after a ten‐year internal conflict, and was followed by the abolition of the Shah monarchy that had ruled the country since the late eighteenth century. This article describes the historical and political context of the decision to replac…
The disappearance and reappearance of Yogmaya
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, Yogmaya called upon the Rana government to establish a dharmarajya, a religious state. The mass suicide is now interpreted as an act of protest at the Ranas' failure to meet this demand. However, the…
Ganga Bahadur’s books
Based on literary research and interviews conducted in Kathmandu, this article takes as its starting point the contents of a bookcase belonging to an ex-Maoist combatant now living in retirement in Kathmandu and the “syllabus” promulgated by the then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) for the ideological training of its cadres. It goes on to chronicle the process by which a number of “landmark ‘proletarian novels’” (Denning 2007 Denning, Michael. …
Area Studies and the importance of ‘somewheres
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 conceive of it as a multidisciplinary field that is predicated upon the significance of place and context, and on the importance of ‘somewheres’
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