Ina Zharkevich
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ina Zharkevich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ina |
| FAMILY NAME | Zharkevich |
| SIGNATURE | ZHARKEVICH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7199-5074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Debt and the American Dream: The Specter of Debt and Its Slow Violence among Irregular Migrants from Nepal
Drawing on research with irregular migrants from Nepal who borrow up to $60,000 to reach the United States, this article explores what I call the invisible slow violence of debt. By focusing on how debt is embodied in cases of spirit possession, tension, and dis-ease among migrants and their families—the article demonstrates how debt can become a haunting specter that exhausts the vitality of debtors who cannot pay off loans. By following cases i…
We are in the process: The exploitation of hope and the political economy of waiting among the aspiring irregular migrants in Nepal
We are in the process' was the phrase used by my Nepali interlocutors, soon-to-be migrants, who were waiting for their departure abroad for months on end. Based on conversations with irregular migrants, this paper explores the relationship between time and power, focusing on the political economy of waiting. It suggests that making people wait has become a key technique of governmentality used by the migration industry actors to control aspiring …
Balancing school and work with new opportunities: Changes in children’s gendered time use in Ethiopia (2006–2013)
We explore the temporal dimension of childhood, through time use of boys and girls in Ethiopia, focusing on the relationship between children’s work and school attendance. We argue that children’s time use reflects both current exigencies and more strategic future-orientated considerations, with work mainly serving the former, and education, the latter. We compare two cohorts of children aged 12 years from Young Lives longitudinal study, intervie…
Gender, marriage, and the dynamic of (im)mobility in the mid-Western hills of Nepal
This paper explores the relationship between gender, marriage, and (im)mobility in rural hilly areas of mid-Western Nepal, showing how (1) the mobility of men is predicated on the ‘immobility’ of women, with marriage being key to the gendered dynamic of (im)mobility, (2) how the construction of hegemonic masculinity, exemplified by a figure of a successful international migrant, is inseparable from an ideal of femininity vested in the figure of a…
Money and Blood: Remittances as a Substance of Relatedness in Transnational Families in Nepal
Drawing on research with transnational families in Nepal, this article explores how kinship is reconstituted through transnational mobility and what role material flows play in sustaining and disrupting kinship ties, rethinking remittances as a substance of relatedness. In a situation of unprecedented international mobility in Nepal, money has become a substance through which kinship is produced across time and space, resulting in a profound reco…
Children, Impacts of Development on
Children are central to the neoliberal development agenda internationally and nationally across most low‐ and middle‐income countries, human‐capital and child‐rights frameworks being deployed as justification. In this context, a focus on child survival and schooling has improved child wellbeing practically everywhere. However, by approaching children as a discrete category in possession of distinct rights, development as practice and discourse ha…
I started working because I was hungry: The consequences of food insecurity for children's well-being in rural Ethiopia
Rules that apply in times of crisis: Time, agency, and norm-remaking during Nepal's People's War
This article explores how people in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal adopted previously transgressive norms and practices during the decade of the People's War (1996-2006). By examining the rise in practices of beef-eating and inter-caste commensality, this article suggests that the temporal dimension of wartime 'when different rules apply' was crucial in making people accept new ideas and break established norms on a scale atypical for the '…
De-mythologizing ‘the Village of Resistance’: How rebellious were the peasants in the Maoist base area of Nepal
Maoists at the hearth. Everyday life in Nepal's civil warby Pettigrew, Judith: Reviews
Money and Blood: Remittances as a Substance of Relatedness in Transnational Families in Nepal
Drawing on research with transnational families in Nepal, this article explores how kinship is reconstituted through transnational mobility and what role material flows play in sustaining and disrupting kinship ties, rethinking remittances as a substance of relatedness. In a situation of unprecedented international mobility in Nepal, money has become a substance through which kinship is produced across time and space, resulting in a profound reco…
We are in the process: The exploitation of hope and the political economy of waiting among the aspiring irregular migrants in Nepal
We are in the process' was the phrase used by my Nepali interlocutors, soon-to-be migrants, who were waiting for their departure abroad for months on end. Based on conversations with irregular migrants, this paper explores the relationship between time and power, focusing on the political economy of waiting. It suggests that making people wait has become a key technique of governmentality used by the migration industry actors to control aspiring …
I started working because I was hungry: The consequences of food insecurity for children's well-being in rural Ethiopia
Balancing school and work with new opportunities: Changes in children’s gendered time use in Ethiopia (2006–2013)
We explore the temporal dimension of childhood, through time use of boys and girls in Ethiopia, focusing on the relationship between children’s work and school attendance. We argue that children’s time use reflects both current exigencies and more strategic future-orientated considerations, with work mainly serving the former, and education, the latter. We compare two cohorts of children aged 12 years from Young Lives longitudinal study, intervie…
Rules that apply in times of crisis: Time, agency, and norm-remaking during Nepal's People's War
This article explores how people in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal adopted previously transgressive norms and practices during the decade of the People's War (1996-2006). By examining the rise in practices of beef-eating and inter-caste commensality, this article suggests that the temporal dimension of wartime 'when different rules apply' was crucial in making people accept new ideas and break established norms on a scale atypical for the '…
Gender, marriage, and the dynamic of (im)mobility in the mid-Western hills of Nepal
This paper explores the relationship between gender, marriage, and (im)mobility in rural hilly areas of mid-Western Nepal, showing how (1) the mobility of men is predicated on the ‘immobility’ of women, with marriage being key to the gendered dynamic of (im)mobility, (2) how the construction of hegemonic masculinity, exemplified by a figure of a successful international migrant, is inseparable from an ideal of femininity vested in the figure of a…
Maoists at the hearth. Everyday life in Nepal's civil warby Pettigrew, Judith: Reviews
De-mythologizing ‘the Village of Resistance’: How rebellious were the peasants in the Maoist base area of Nepal
I started working because I was hungry: The consequences of food insecurity for children's well-being in rural Ethiopia
Rules that apply in times of crisis: Time, agency, and norm-remaking during Nepal's People's War
This article explores how people in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal adopted previously transgressive norms and practices during the decade of the People's War (1996-2006). By examining the rise in practices of beef-eating and inter-caste commensality, this article suggests that the temporal dimension of wartime 'when different rules apply' was crucial in making people accept new ideas and break established norms on a scale atypical for the '…
Children, Impacts of Development on
Children are central to the neoliberal development agenda internationally and nationally across most low‐ and middle‐income countries, human‐capital and child‐rights frameworks being deployed as justification. In this context, a focus on child survival and schooling has improved child wellbeing practically everywhere. However, by approaching children as a discrete category in possession of distinct rights, development as practice and discourse ha…
Gender, marriage, and the dynamic of (im)mobility in the mid-Western hills of Nepal
This paper explores the relationship between gender, marriage, and (im)mobility in rural hilly areas of mid-Western Nepal, showing how (1) the mobility of men is predicated on the ‘immobility’ of women, with marriage being key to the gendered dynamic of (im)mobility, (2) how the construction of hegemonic masculinity, exemplified by a figure of a successful international migrant, is inseparable from an ideal of femininity vested in the figure of a…
Money and Blood: Remittances as a Substance of Relatedness in Transnational Families in Nepal
Drawing on research with transnational families in Nepal, this article explores how kinship is reconstituted through transnational mobility and what role material flows play in sustaining and disrupting kinship ties, rethinking remittances as a substance of relatedness. In a situation of unprecedented international mobility in Nepal, money has become a substance through which kinship is produced across time and space, resulting in a profound reco…
Balancing school and work with new opportunities: Changes in children’s gendered time use in Ethiopia (2006–2013)
We explore the temporal dimension of childhood, through time use of boys and girls in Ethiopia, focusing on the relationship between children’s work and school attendance. We argue that children’s time use reflects both current exigencies and more strategic future-orientated considerations, with work mainly serving the former, and education, the latter. We compare two cohorts of children aged 12 years from Young Lives longitudinal study, intervie…
We are in the process: The exploitation of hope and the political economy of waiting among the aspiring irregular migrants in Nepal
We are in the process' was the phrase used by my Nepali interlocutors, soon-to-be migrants, who were waiting for their departure abroad for months on end. Based on conversations with irregular migrants, this paper explores the relationship between time and power, focusing on the political economy of waiting. It suggests that making people wait has become a key technique of governmentality used by the migration industry actors to control aspiring …
Debt and the American Dream: The Specter of Debt and Its Slow Violence among Irregular Migrants from Nepal
Drawing on research with irregular migrants from Nepal who borrow up to $60,000 to reach the United States, this article explores what I call the invisible slow violence of debt. By focusing on how debt is embodied in cases of spirit possession, tension, and dis-ease among migrants and their families—the article demonstrates how debt can become a haunting specter that exhausts the vitality of debtors who cannot pay off loans. By following cases i…
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