Nimesh Dhungana
Biographic Data
| ID | 291137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nimesh Dhungana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nimesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Dhungana |
| SIGNATURE | DHUNGANA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9371-558X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Caught in the middle
Most literature on research ethics originates from the perspectives of international researchers and, to a lesser extent, research subjects. This article goes beyond the prevailing understanding of ethical misconduct as a failure to secure informed consent, data breaches, coercion, or misuse of data. Instead, it seeks to develop the notion of ‘mundane ethical harms’ in conflict- and disaster-affected research, which are rooted in and shaped by th…
Prediction and data curation in digital humanitarianism
Our article contributes to debates on critical humanitarianism and critical dataset studies by examining the praxis of digital humanitarianism and the entanglement between what we know and how we know human suffering in large-scale disasters. We specifically focus on the “data work” carried out by various professionals in creating and curating datasets used by humanitarian actors to address both current and future crises. In doing so, we explore …
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen
Community-Based Monitoring as an Early Warning System
During the fast-paced climate of the COVID-19 pandemic and as the official responses suffered from major inconsistencies and dysfunctions, volunteers and civil society activists initiated a range of strategies to monitor, gather, and disseminate risk information, going beyond the traditional top-down and expert-led interpretation of and approaches to risk mitigation. The current paper draws on growing scholarly recognition that official or govern…
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production
Debates about global international relations (IR) have been ongoing for over a decade, yet academic practice in meaningfully cooperating with Global Southern scholars has changed little. Against the backdrop of growing scholarly concerns about global inequality in knowledge production, this forum takes stock of the search for global IR and examines the academic practices and structures that hinder its progress. The contributions highlight numerou…
When participation entrenches authoritarian practice
Aiming at a moving target
Purpose The growing prominence of disaster research has also prompted vibrant discussions about the motivation and ethical conduct of disaster researchers. Yet, the individual researchers' aspirations and aims, together with the challenging and changing circumstances under which one undertakes disaster research have received relatively scant attention. Drawing on the author’s personal experience of becoming a disaster researcher under the unexpec…
Doing Civil Society-Driven Social Accountability in a Disaster Context
While accountability has gained significant traction within the contemporary discourse on disaster governance, what it means and takes to be ‘doing accountability’ in promoting democratic governance of disasters remain scantly understood. Using the concept of social accountability and drawing on an ethnographic case study of a civil society-led accountability campaign in post-earthquake Nepal (the Mobile Citizen Help Desk, or MCHD), this article …
Human dignity and cross-border migrants in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic
Beyond performance and protocols
Critics have long questioned the push for professionalised and performance‐driven accountability in the humanitarian sector, yet the matter is largely treated as a ‘back office’ issue of standards, guidelines, and processes. Scant attention is paid to the accountability demands experienced by early responders to disasters. Set in the contested climate of the emergency response to the earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015, and drawing on interviews…
Media as Educator, Media as Disruptor
Journal Article Media as Educator, Media as Disruptor: Conceptualizing the Role of Social Context in Media Effects Get access Rajiv N. Rimal, Rajiv N. Rimal 1Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Adrienne H. Chung, Adrienne H. Chung 1Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University, …
Sex workers in HIV prevention
We utilised a comparative ethnographic approach to study the implementation of a community mobilisation intervention addressing HIV risk among female sex workers (FSWs) in India, as implemented first by an non-governmental organisation and after oversight of the intervention was transitioned to the government. We demonstrate that the work of peer outreach workers changed from Social Change Agents within a community-led structural intervention (CL…
Unintended Consequences of Community-Based Monitoring Systems
Structural stigma, sex work and HIV
BACKGROUND: Recent theorisation has pushed stigma research in new directions, arguing for a need to challenge the unequal power relations that impact groups most at risk for HIV-related stigma rather than locate stigma in the individual. Such a conceptualisation resonates with the growing emphasis on structural interventions for HIV prevention that attempt to alter the social context of risk. METHODS: The paper predominantly relies on longitudina…
Unintended Consequences of Community-Based Monitoring Systems
Human dignity and cross-border migrants in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic
Structural stigma, sex work and HIV
BACKGROUND: Recent theorisation has pushed stigma research in new directions, arguing for a need to challenge the unequal power relations that impact groups most at risk for HIV-related stigma rather than locate stigma in the individual. Such a conceptualisation resonates with the growing emphasis on structural interventions for HIV prevention that attempt to alter the social context of risk. METHODS: The paper predominantly relies on longitudina…
Beyond performance and protocols
Critics have long questioned the push for professionalised and performance‐driven accountability in the humanitarian sector, yet the matter is largely treated as a ‘back office’ issue of standards, guidelines, and processes. Scant attention is paid to the accountability demands experienced by early responders to disasters. Set in the contested climate of the emergency response to the earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015, and drawing on interviews…
Media as Educator, Media as Disruptor
Journal Article Media as Educator, Media as Disruptor: Conceptualizing the Role of Social Context in Media Effects Get access Rajiv N. Rimal, Rajiv N. Rimal 1Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Adrienne H. Chung, Adrienne H. Chung 1Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University, …
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production
Debates about global international relations (IR) have been ongoing for over a decade, yet academic practice in meaningfully cooperating with Global Southern scholars has changed little. Against the backdrop of growing scholarly concerns about global inequality in knowledge production, this forum takes stock of the search for global IR and examines the academic practices and structures that hinder its progress. The contributions highlight numerou…
Doing Civil Society-Driven Social Accountability in a Disaster Context
While accountability has gained significant traction within the contemporary discourse on disaster governance, what it means and takes to be ‘doing accountability’ in promoting democratic governance of disasters remain scantly understood. Using the concept of social accountability and drawing on an ethnographic case study of a civil society-led accountability campaign in post-earthquake Nepal (the Mobile Citizen Help Desk, or MCHD), this article …
Structural stigma, sex work and HIV
BACKGROUND: Recent theorisation has pushed stigma research in new directions, arguing for a need to challenge the unequal power relations that impact groups most at risk for HIV-related stigma rather than locate stigma in the individual. Such a conceptualisation resonates with the growing emphasis on structural interventions for HIV prevention that attempt to alter the social context of risk. METHODS: The paper predominantly relies on longitudina…
Sex workers in HIV prevention
We utilised a comparative ethnographic approach to study the implementation of a community mobilisation intervention addressing HIV risk among female sex workers (FSWs) in India, as implemented first by an non-governmental organisation and after oversight of the intervention was transitioned to the government. We demonstrate that the work of peer outreach workers changed from Social Change Agents within a community-led structural intervention (CL…
Unintended Consequences of Community-Based Monitoring Systems
Media as Educator, Media as Disruptor
Journal Article Media as Educator, Media as Disruptor: Conceptualizing the Role of Social Context in Media Effects Get access Rajiv N. Rimal, Rajiv N. Rimal 1Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Adrienne H. Chung, Adrienne H. Chung 1Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University, …
Doing Civil Society-Driven Social Accountability in a Disaster Context
While accountability has gained significant traction within the contemporary discourse on disaster governance, what it means and takes to be ‘doing accountability’ in promoting democratic governance of disasters remain scantly understood. Using the concept of social accountability and drawing on an ethnographic case study of a civil society-led accountability campaign in post-earthquake Nepal (the Mobile Citizen Help Desk, or MCHD), this article …
Human dignity and cross-border migrants in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic
Beyond performance and protocols
Critics have long questioned the push for professionalised and performance‐driven accountability in the humanitarian sector, yet the matter is largely treated as a ‘back office’ issue of standards, guidelines, and processes. Scant attention is paid to the accountability demands experienced by early responders to disasters. Set in the contested climate of the emergency response to the earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015, and drawing on interviews…
When participation entrenches authoritarian practice
Aiming at a moving target
Purpose The growing prominence of disaster research has also prompted vibrant discussions about the motivation and ethical conduct of disaster researchers. Yet, the individual researchers' aspirations and aims, together with the challenging and changing circumstances under which one undertakes disaster research have received relatively scant attention. Drawing on the author’s personal experience of becoming a disaster researcher under the unexpec…
Community-Based Monitoring as an Early Warning System
During the fast-paced climate of the COVID-19 pandemic and as the official responses suffered from major inconsistencies and dysfunctions, volunteers and civil society activists initiated a range of strategies to monitor, gather, and disseminate risk information, going beyond the traditional top-down and expert-led interpretation of and approaches to risk mitigation. The current paper draws on growing scholarly recognition that official or govern…
Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production
Debates about global international relations (IR) have been ongoing for over a decade, yet academic practice in meaningfully cooperating with Global Southern scholars has changed little. Against the backdrop of growing scholarly concerns about global inequality in knowledge production, this forum takes stock of the search for global IR and examines the academic practices and structures that hinder its progress. The contributions highlight numerou…
Caught in the middle
Most literature on research ethics originates from the perspectives of international researchers and, to a lesser extent, research subjects. This article goes beyond the prevailing understanding of ethical misconduct as a failure to secure informed consent, data breaches, coercion, or misuse of data. Instead, it seeks to develop the notion of ‘mundane ethical harms’ in conflict- and disaster-affected research, which are rooted in and shaped by th…
Prediction and data curation in digital humanitarianism
Our article contributes to debates on critical humanitarianism and critical dataset studies by examining the praxis of digital humanitarianism and the entanglement between what we know and how we know human suffering in large-scale disasters. We specifically focus on the “data work” carried out by various professionals in creating and curating datasets used by humanitarian actors to address both current and future crises. In doing so, we explore …
Vital mobilities of medical oxygen
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