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Dr Jeevan R. Sharma
Job Title
Senior Lecturer in South Asia and International Development
Background
Book
Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal, Bloomsbury Academic (Forthcoming, August 2021).
**Indian/South Asian edition of this book was published by Bloomsbury India in 2019. See here! The review has appeared in The Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Affairs, Men and Masculinities, Himalaya, and Studies of Nepali History and Society.
Journal Articles (most recent)
Covid-19 and Precarity of Low-income Migrant Workers in Indian Cities (with Anurag Sharma and Anuj Kapilashrami), Society and Culture in South Asia (special issue on ‘Social Distancing, Covid-19 and South Asian Experiences'), forthcoming, 2020
Migration Health Research and Policy in South and South-East Asia: Mapping the Gaps and Advancing a Collaborative Agenda (co-author with Anuj Kapilashrami et. al), WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health, 9(2), 107-110, WHO Regional Office for South East Asia, 2020.
"Foreign aid, Cashgate and trusting relationships: key factors contributing to (mal) functioning of the Malawian health system" (co-author with Radha Adhikari, Pam Smith and Address Malata), Health Policy and Planning, Vol 34 (3): 197-206. 2019
"New forms of development: branding innovative ideas and bidding for foreign aid in the maternal and child health service in Nepal" (coauthor with Radha Adhikari, Pam Smith, and Obindra Chand), Globalization and Health, 14 (33).(2018)
"Monetary Compensation for Survivors of Torture: Some Lessons from Nepal" (with Toby Kelly), Journal of Human Rights Practice, 10 (2). (2018)
"Accountability and generating evidence for global health interventions: The case of misoprostol in Nepal" (with Rekha Khatri and Ian Harper), IDS Bulletin 49(2): 49-64 (2018)
“Britain-Nepal Relations through the prism of Aid” (with Ian Harper), European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, Vol 50/51: 145-161 (2018)
Torture and Ill-Treatment Under Perceived: Human Rights Documentation and the Poor (co-author), Human Rights Quarterly, 39 (2), 393-415. (2017).
"Torture Redress mechanism in Nepal and Bangladesh: a comparative perspective" (with Morten Koch Andersen), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LII, No. 17, (2017).
A Comparative Study of the Use of the Istanbul Protocol Amongst Civil Society Organizations in Low-Income Countries (co-author), TORTURE - Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, 26(3): 60-73. (2017)
"WHO outsourcing dilemma: for whose benefit, at whose expense?" (with Harper, Adhikari, Smith, Thapa, Chand, Malata) BMJ Global Health (2017); 2: e000237, doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000237
“Bodies in search of freedom: changing rural political economy and Nepal’s marginal migrants”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 51, No 21. 21 May 2016, 53-60.
"Understanding Health Research Ethics in Nepal" (with Rekha Khatri and Ian Harper), Developing World Bio-ethics, (Special Issue: the Ethics of Health Systems Research in Low and Middle-income Countries), (Open access; DOI: 10.1111/dewb.12109), Vol 16, No. 3: 140-147, 2016.
Book chapters (most recent)
“Politics of Childbirth in Nepal: The case of the maternal mortality ratio” (with Radha Adhikari), in C. Jullien and R. Jeffery (eds) Childbirth in South Asia: old challenges and new paradoxes, Oxford University Press: New Delhi. (Forthcoming, 2021)
“Marginal Migrants? Migrant Associations and the Lived Experience of Nepali Migrant Workers in India”, in Gellner and Hausner (eds), Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture and Community in a New and Old Diaspora, Oxford University Press, August 2018.
Rise of adivasi janajati movement and Nepal’s political interregnum, in Hugo Gorringe, Suryakant Waghmore and Roger Jeffery (eds), From Margins to the Mainstream: Institutionalising Minorities in South Asia, Sage Publications, December 2015.
"Aid and Violence: Development, Insurgency and Social Transformation in Nepal" (co-author with Antonio Donini), in Aparna Sundar and Nandini Sundar (eds), Civil War in South Asia: Sovereignty and Citizenship, Sage Publications, 2014.
“Migration, Marginality and Modernity: Hill Men's Journey to Mumbai", in Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka and Gerard Toffin (eds), Facing Globalisation in the Himalayas: Belonging and the Politics of the Self, Sage Publications, 2014.
Reports
Torture and Ill-treatment: Perceptions, Experiences and Justice-seeking in Kathmandu’s Squatter Communities (lead author), University of Edinburgh, DIGNITY, Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, July 2016 (ISBN: 978 9937 0 0977 5)
How can you be 'marda' if you beat your wife. Notions of Masculinities and Violence in Eastern Nepal (co-author with Matthew Maycock, Juilie Bretheld, Ojaswi Shah and Ramesh Shrestha), Saferworld, London, UK (July 2014)
Op-Eds/blogs (most recent)
'Neglect of low-income migrants in covid-19', BMJ Opinion, 29 May 2020.
“Cashgate”, foreign aid, trust and relationships amongst stakeholders and its impact on Malawi’s health system (with Radha Adhikari and Pam Smith), in Health Policy and Planning Debated. https://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/hppdebated/
LSE South Asia Blog (invited commentary based on current research on outsourcing of aid), Looking beyond Maternal Mortality Rates in maternal health interventions: lessons from Nepal 20/07/2016.
Documenting Torture (a commentary on torture documentation in Nepal), My Republica, 23 May 2016.
LSE South Asia Blog (Invited commentary on Nepal Earthquake and external assistance), The 2015 earthquakes highlight that Nepal is not a passive recipient of aid, nor should it be treated as such, 29 April 2016.
Far too common (a commentary on criminalisation of torture in Nepal, My Republica, Kathmandu, 19 April 2016)
Checkered History (a commentary on the political history of foreign aid in Nepal, My Republica, Kathmandu, 9 March 2016).
Revisiting Mahatonomics (a commentary on development in Nepal), My Republica, Kathmandu, 22 February 2016).
Book reviews (most recent)
"Societies, Social Inequalities and Marginalization: Marginal Regions in the 21st Century", Mountain Research and Development, 38(3):272-273 (2018)
"Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War", Conflict and Society, 1, 2015.
"Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in Globalised World", International Development Planning Review, 36 (4), 2014.
"The personal and the professional in aid work", e-IR, 14 February 2014.
Previous externally funded research grants
Nov 2016 to Aug 2017, Co-Investigator, Dynamic Flood Topographies in the Terai, Nepal: Community Perceptions and Resilience, Global Challenges Research Fund/NERC (GCRF), with Hugh Sinclair and colleagues.
May 2014 to Oct 2016, Co-Investigator, New Norms and Forms of Development: Brokerage in Maternal and Child Health Service Development and Delivery in Nepal and Malawi, funded by ESRC/DFID, with Ian Harper, Pam Smith, Radha Adhikari and colleagues in Nepal and Malawi. website: www. newnorms.soscbaha.org
May 2014 to Aug 2016, Co-Investigator, A comparative analysis of the documentation of torture and ill-treatment in low-income countries, funded by ESRC/DFID, with Toby Kelly and colleagues
January 2012- February 2014, Research Collaborator, (with colleagues in Edinburgh and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai), marginal populations, social mobilisations and development, UKIERI. GBP 30K
January 2012- April 2013, Co-investigator (with Antonio Donini at Tufts), Labor mobility, vulnerability and social transformation in Nepal, Humanity United Foundation, USD 150,000
2010-2011, Co-investigator (with Antonio Donini), Sovereignty, Globalisation and the Future of Humanitarian Action - Analysing Experience from Recent Crises in South Asia, The Future of Aid and Beyond Research Competition, DFID, UK. GBP 50,000
May 2011-December 2011, Principal Investigator, Labour mobility, vulnerability and social transformation in Nepal, Humanity United Foundation. USD 50,000
09/2010-08/2013, Co-Investigator (with Peter Walker, Daniel Maxwell, Karen Jacobsen and Elizabeth Stites), Coping with floods and managing livelihoods in Nepal Terai, OFDA/USAID. Total budget of the project is USD 1.1 million.
09/2010-02/2013, Research Collaborator (Nepal Co-Investigator), Biomedical and Health Experimentation in South Asia: critical perspectives on collaboration, governance and competition, ESRC-DFID Joint Scheme for Research on International Development (Poverty Alleviation), research grant with colleagues in Edinburgh, Durham India and Nepal, Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh. GBP 500k
2007-2010, Co-investigator (with Antonio Donini), Local Perceptions of Conflict and Social Transformation in Nepal, Governments of the Netherlands, Norway and Finland.
Research interests
Research themes
Research interests
Migrant labor, Migration and development, livelihoods, Gender and Development, Youth, human rights, Development and Humanitarian Aid, Global Health, Reproductive & child health, Monitoring and Evaluation, Nepal and the Himalaya, South Asia
Research Day: Tuesday
I have broad interests in a) changing norms and forms of international development, global health, human rights, and humanitarian response; b) labour migration, border crossing and citizenship, c) culture and politics of South Asia; and d) socio-economic-political transition in Nepal and the Himalaya.
I have carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, and Malawi. I have extensively researched on labour migration, borders, foreign aid-funded development projects, Maoist conflict, humanitarianism, human rights documentation, international research collaboration, ethics governance, the humanitarian crisis following floods, earthquake and conflict, health policy and planning, community health volunteers, and maternal and child health.
I received PhD from the School of Social and Political Science, the University in Edinburgh, and have worked at Feinstein International Centre at Tufts University between 2009-2011 and Save the Children UK between 2007-2009.
Over the last 15 years, I have offered consultancy services to a number of development organisations including DFID, World Bank, USAID, DANIDA, UK Government Office for Science, JHPIEGO, Options, Oxford Policy Management Limited, Care International, Save the Children, Saferworld, Scottish Government, United Mission to Nepal and Family Health International among others.
I am an executive member of the British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS), and the Britain Nepal Academic Council (BNAC).
I am a Co-editor of Himalaya.
I am also an Associate Editor of 'South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies'.
I served as a member of the commissioning panel for the ESRC Centres Competition 2018.
Current funded research projects
Principal Investigator: Documentation of Nepali migrant workers’ death and injuries during transit and their employment in destination countries, Global Challenges Theme Development Fund, Jan 2020-July 2021.
Principal Investigator: From the margins: Exploring Low-income Migrant Workers' Access to Basic Services and Protection in the context of India's Urban Transformation, ESRC-ICSSR, May 2018-May 2020 (other members of the research team include Anuj Kapilashrami and Patricia Jeffery in Edinburgh, and Radhika Chopra in Delhi University).
Topics interested in supervising
In particular, I welcome students working in the following fields: ethics, politics and practices of international development (development, humanitarian global health and human rights) response, labour migration and socio-political change in South Asia and and the Himalayas.
If you are interested in being supervised by Jeevan Sharma, please see the links below (open in new windows) for more information: