MIGRATION IN FAR WEST NEPAL

Abstract

In this comment on an article published in Critical Asian Studies 43 (1), “Migration in Far West Nepal,” the author questions whether the “Bourdieu social practice framework,” which Ephraim Poertner, Mathais Junginger, and Ulrike Müller-Böker employ in their article, provides the most appropriate lens through which to view migration. He argues that the authors fail to present convincing evidence of the relevance of its application. Furthermore, he says, a further dichotomy might need to be addressed first: that between French approaches to social theory and Anglo-Saxon approaches such as that of Anthony Giddens, where the timespace dimensions are much more evident, even if problematic, in the examining structure and agency.

Notes

^1. Henceforth PJM-B 2011.

^2. PJM-B 2011, 36.

^3. Ibid., 44.

^4. Ibid., 37.

^5. The examples are given in PJM-B 2011, 39.

^6. NIDS 2007, 8.

^7. Ibid., 7.

^8. PJM-B 2011, 27.

^9. Ibid., 27–28.

^10. Ibid.

^11. Ibid., 31.

^12. Ibid., 24.

^13. Massey et al. 1998, 21–28.

^14. Bridge 2011, 79.

^15. Gregory 1989.