Prospective Graduate Students / Postdocs
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Sara Shneiderman
Associate Professor
Research Classification
Research Interests
Indigenous issues
Disaster response and preparedness
Relevant Degree Programs
Affiliations to Research Centres, Institutes & Clusters
Research Options
I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
Research Methodology
Ethnography
International research
Community Engagement
Recent Tri-Agency Grants
The following is a selection of grants for which the faculty member was principal investigator or co-investigator. Currently, the list only covers Canadian Tri-Agency grants from years 2013/14-2016/17 and excludes grants from any other agencies.
- Expertise, labour and mobility in Nepal's post-conflict, post-disaster reconstruction: construction, law and finance as domains of social transformation - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) - Partnership Development Grants (2016/2017)
- Restructuring life: Citizenship, territory, and religiosity in Nepal's state of transformation - UBC Humanities and Social Science (HSS) Research Fund - Faculty of Arts HSS Research Grants (2016/2017)
- Nepal's ongoing democratic transition - UBC Humanities and Social Science (HSS) Research Fund - Faculty of Arts HSS Workshop & Visiting Speaker Grant (2015/2016)
- American Anthropological Association - UBC Humanities and Social Science (HSS) Research Fund - Faculty of Arts HSS Conference Travel Grants (2015/2016)
News Releases
This list shows a selection of news releases by UBC Media Relations over the last 5 years.
Publications
- Disaster Financialization: Earthquakes, Cashflows and Shifting Household Economies in Nepal (2020)
Development and Change, 51 (4), 939--969 - Forging Community through Disaster Response: Nepali Canadians and the 2015 Earthquakes (2020)
BC Studies, - Learning from Disasters: Nepal copes with coronavirus pandemic 5 years after earthquake (2020)
The Conversation, - Reconstructing Nepal: Bhaktapur – Heritage and Urban Reconstruction (2020)
Social Science Baha, - Redundancy, Resilience, Repair: Infrastructural Effects in Borderland Spaces (2020)
Verge: Studies in Global Asias, - The Affective Potentialities and Politics of Ethnicity, Inc. in Restructuring Nepal: Social Science, Sovereignty, and Signification (2020)
Ethnicity, Commodity, In/Corporation, - Identity, Society, and State: Citizenship and Inclusion in Nepal (2019)
The Politics of Change: Reflections on Contemporary Nepal｜समकालीन नेपाल: राजनीति र अन्य आयाम, - New laws weaponize citizenship in India (2019)
The Conversation, - Reconstructing Nepal: Post-Earthquake Experiences from Bhaktapur, Dhading and Sindhupalchowk (2019)
Social Science Baha, - Reconstruction Conundrums (2019)
Kathmandu Post, - Thangmi Wedding Ritual Texts (2019)
Ritual Speech in the Himalayas: Oral Texts and Their Contexts, - Darjeeling Reconsidered: Histories, Politics, Environments (2018)
Oxford University Press, - Temple Building in Secularising Nepal: Materializing Religion and Ethnicity in a State of Transformation (2018)
Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia, - Time, Oral Tradition, and Technology (2018)
Memory, - Citizenship, Gender, and Statelessness in Nepal: Before and After the 2015 Constitution (2017)
Understanding Statelessness, - The Properties of Territory in Nepal’s State of Transformation (2017)
Trans-Himalayan Borderlands: Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities, - What’s brewing in Darjeeling (2017)
The Hindu, - (Review) Mediating the Global: Expatria’s Forms and Consequences in Kathmandu (2016)
Pacific Affairs, - Nepal's Ongoing Political Transformation: A Review of Post-2006 Literature on Conflict, the State, Identities, and Environments (2016)
Modern Asian Studies, - Nepal’s Rule-of-Law Politics Demand Global Attention (2016)
Globe & Mail, - Critique of Anthropology 35 (3): Resiting the Village (2015)
- Nepal’s Relief Effort Must Reach the Rural Poor (2015)
Globe & Mail, - Regionalism, Mobility, and “the village” as a Set of Social Relations: Himalayan Reflections on a South Asian Theme (2015)
Critique of Anthropology, - Restructuring States, Restructuring Ethnicity: Looking Across Disciplinary Boundaries at Federal Futures in India and Nepal (2015)
Modern Asian Studies, - Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India (2015)
University of Pennsylvania Press, - Circular Lives: Histories and Economies of Belonging in the Transnational Thangmi Village (2014)
Facing Globalization in the Himalayas: Belonging and the Politics of the Self, - Hau—Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4 (1): Remote and Edgy: New Takes on Old Anthropological Themes (2014)
- Living Practical Dharma: Chomo Khandru and the Himalayan Bon Tradition (2014)
Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism Through the Lives of Practitioners, - Reframing Ethnicity: Academic Tropes, Political Desire, and Ritualized Action Between Nepal and India (2014)
American Anthropologist, - Developing a Culture of Marginality: Nepal’s Current Classificatory Moment (2013)
Focaal, - Focaal—Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 65: Toward an Anthropology of Affirmative Action (2013)
- Himalayan Border Citizens: Sovereignty and Mobility in the Nepal-Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) of China Border Zone (2013)
Political Geography, - The Practices, Policies and Politics of Transforming Inequality in South Asia: Ethnographies of Affirmative Action (2013)
Focaal, - Nepal and Bhutan in 2011 (2012)
Asian Survey, - Restructuring the State, Restructuring Ethnicity: Situating Nepal in Contemporary Social Scientific Debates (2012)
Ethnicity and Federalisation in Nepal, - The Formation of Political Consciousness in Rural Nepal (2012)
Windows into A Revolution: Ethnographies of Maoism in India and Nepal, - Synthesizing Practice and Performance, Securing Recognition: Thangmi Cultural Heritage in Nepal and India (2011)
Ritual, Heritage and Identity: The Politics of Culture and Performance in a Globalised World, - ‘Producing’ Thangmi Ritual Texts: Practice, Performance and Collaboration (2010)
Language Documentation and Description, - Are the Central Himalayas in Zomia? Some Scholarly and Political Considerations Across Time and Space (2010)
Journal of Global History, - Creating ‘Civilized’ Communists: A Quarter Century of Politicization in Rural Nepal (2010)
Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia, - Negotiating Nepal’s Two Polities: A View from Dolakha (2010)
In Hope and in Fear: Living Through the People’s War in Nepal, - Ethnic (P)reservations: Comparing Thangmi Ethnic Activism in Nepal and India (2009)
Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia, - Reservations, Federalism and the Politics of Recognition in Nepal (2008)
Economic and Political Weekly, - Not just nuns and oracles: contemporary Tibetan women (Review of Women in Tibet, Past and Present, Janet Gyatso and Hanna Havnevik, eds) (2007)
IIAS Newsletter, - Barbarians at the Border and Civilising Projects: Analaysing Ethnic and National Identities in the Tibetan Context (2006)
Tibetan Borderlands, - Revisiting Ethnography, Recognizing a Forgotten People: The Thangmi of Nepal and India (2006)
Studies in Nepali History and Society, - Seeking the Tribe: Ethno-politics in Darjeeling and Sikkim (2006)
Himal Southasian, - Agency and Resistance in the Thangmi-Newar Ritual Relationship: An analysis of Devikot-Khadga Jatra in Dolakha, Nepal (2005)
The European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, - Swapping Identities: Borderland Exchanges along the Nepal-TAR Frontier (2005)
Himal Southasian, - Relationships, Complicity and Representation: Conducting Research in Nepal during the Maoist Insurgency (2004)
Anthropology Today, - The Path to Jan Sarkar in Dolakha District: Towards an Ethnography of the Maoist Movement (2004)
Himalayan People’s War: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion, - Women and the Maobadi: Ideology and Agency in Nepal’s Maoist Movement (2004)
Himal Southasian, - नेपालका गाउँमा राजीतिक चेतना निर्माण : स्थानीय इतिहासले सिकाएको पाठ (Nepalka gauma rajnitik chetana nirman: sthaniya itihasle sikaeko path) (2004)
समावेशी लोकतन्त्रका आधारहरु (Samabesi loktantra-ka adharharu/The Foundations of Inclusive Democracy), - (Review) Sensory Biographies: Lives and Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists (2003)
Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, - Violent Histories and Political Consciousness: Reflections on Nepal’s Maoist Movement from Piskar Village (2003)
Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, - Embodied Ancestors: Territory and the Body in Thangmi Death Rituals (2002)
Territory and Identity in Tibet and the Himalayas, - Preliminary Etymological Notes on Thangmi Clan Names and Indigenous Explanations of their Provenance (2000)
The Journal of Nepalese Literature, Art and Culture, - Appropriate Treasure: Reflections on Women, Buddhism, and Cross-Cultural Exchange (1999)
Buddhist Women Across Cultures,
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