Borders in Globalization Podcast

#22 BIG Podcast - “Nepal-India Border, Minorities and Cross-Border Networks” - With: Kalpana Jha, Analyst and Researcher at the University of Victoria


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Country of 27 million inhabitants, in the Himalayan mountain range, Nepal shares a border with India for 1690 km and with China for nearly 1,200 km. The majority of the inhabitants live in the south of the country (along the Indo-Nepalese border) and in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal became a republic in 2008 and the country adopted a new Constitution in 2015 which provides for a federal-type state, organized around 7 provinces which have their own assembly and executive power. A podcast about the State of Nepal, internal bordering processes, the marginalized people at its borders, notably the Madhesi People, and also the relations with India and China..


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00:00 Our Guest today: Kalpana Jha

01:12 Cross-Border Unformal Networks and the shaping of Border Region

03:15 Interests of the Socio-Legal Approach for the Border Studies

05:59 Border, Legal Line of Separation, but also Living Region per se

10:22 How to Manage the Nepal Diversity?

13:10 Nepal: From Kingdom to Federal-type State.

18:30 Relations between Nepal and India

22:30 Nepal-India Border: An Open Border at the Daily Level

25:52 A Huge Wall on the Nepal-India border?

30:33 Cross-Border Governance of Rivers and Political Challenges

36:07 Nepal-China Relations Through Himalayas

41:59 Transboundary Infrastructures and Neighbouring Hard Powers

46:29 The Madhesi People Movement and Diversity of Nepal

50:17 Internal Bordering Processes and Geographical Features

56:15 The Identity of Madeshi People

1:00:23 Madeshi People as Transnational Community

1:04:40 New Legal and Political Recognition

1:06:01 Scenarios for Borderlanders and Cross-Border Communities



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