Beyond masters: women’s shifting roles in Nepal’s new neoliberal garment industry

dc.contributor.authorShakya, Mallika
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-19T07:15:58Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe late 20th century saw a phenomenal integration of the production and consumption of clothing between the Global North and the Global South. While global integration of mass manufactured garments has been discussed at length, this paper investigates the gender subjectivities within artisanal production of globally-oriented ethnic wear within the garment value chain. This ethnographic case study focuses on the women entrepreneurs animating the large-scale Nepali garment subcluster. This subcluster, with its origins in fringe tourism and development expatriatism became so integrated with its global counterparts that some entrepreneurs became prominent national names. The market conflated female and male designers and entrepreneurs. In this process of symbiotic absorption, and the dominance of garment production in the national economy, female entrepreneurs saw their careers sidelined and their contributions overlooked. This paper draws on an extensive ethnographic fieldwork encompassing the period from 1990s to the first quarter of the twenty-first century to explore the evolving dynamics of the Nepali public sphere in response to profound changes within the Nepali state. These transformations encompass the shift from a Hindu monarchy to a Maoist revolution, resulting in a secular, republican and federal state. The paper further examines the implications of these shifts for the female entrepreneurs in Nepal who have played a substantial role in Nepal’s industrialisation.en_US
dc.description.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.description.embargo2025-07-08
dc.description.librarianhj2024en_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-01:No povertyen_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-05:Gender equalityen_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-08:Decent work and economic growthen_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/journals/RSACen_US
dc.identifier.citationMallika Shakya (2024) Beyond masters: women’s shifting roles in Nepal’s new neoliberal garment industry, South Asian History and Culture, 15:1, 48-64, DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2023.2298623.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1947-2498 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1947-2501 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/19472498.2023.2298623
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/95668
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rights© 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an electronic version of an article published in South Asian History and Culture, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 48-64, 2024, DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2023.2298623. South Asian History and Culture is available online at : https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/RSAC.en_US
dc.subjectTextileen_US
dc.subjectClothingen_US
dc.subjectReadymade garmenten_US
dc.subjectCraften_US
dc.subjectFemale labour forceen_US
dc.subjectFemale enterpriseen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectEmpowermenten_US
dc.subjectMarketen_US
dc.subjectEmbeddednessen_US
dc.subjectNepalen_US
dc.subjectMulti-fibre arrangement (MFA)en_US
dc.subjectSDG-01: No povertyen_US
dc.subjectSDG-05: Gender equalityen_US
dc.subjectSDG-08: Decent work and economic growthen_US
dc.titleBeyond masters: women’s shifting roles in Nepal’s new neoliberal garment industryen_US
dc.typePostprint Articleen_US

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