Anil Bhattarai is a research fellow at Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS). His doctoral research at the University of Toronto’s Departmant of Geography and Planning focuses on changes in ecological agriculture, household livelihoods, and agrarian knowledge. During the last two decades, he has been actively involved in Nepal’s scholar/activist community through his work on sustainable agriculture, rights to local livelihoods, and movements for democratization. As a public intellectual, he writes regularly for Nepal’s leading media platforms. As an interdisciplinary scholar, his interests span the formation of cosmos, emergence of life, transformation of the earth systems, the making of farm ecosystems, state-society-ecology relations, changing institutions of knowledge production, and housing. As a senior research fellow at SIAS, he will be involved in a research on climate change and agriculture in Nepal and India
Publications
Under Revision Bhattarai, A. “Genealogy of children’s health practices in Nepal: A critique and a proposal.” Studies in Nepali History and Society.
May 2009–Present Over 150 editorials for The Kathmandu Post. These editorials covered debates on radical politics, ecological futures, degradations of landscape, organic farming, international aid, political economy of health, among many other things. I publish a weekly column called (un)commonsense for The Kathmandu Post Several editorial pieces for Nepal’s newspapers such as Kantipur and Nagarik
2005 Bhattarai, A. and Gautam, B. [Eds.] Swasthya, Samaj ra Rajniti (Health Society and Politics) (Nepali). Martin Chautari, Kathmandu.
2005 Bhattarai A. and Jana, S. Grassroots Organization Engaging Conservation Agency: Case Study of Indigenous Fishing Communities’ Right to Fishing in South Central Nepal. London: Research and policy in Development Programme (RAPID), Overseas Development Institute. Available at http://www.odi.org.uk/RAPID/projects/PPA0104/natural_resources.html
2005 Bhattarai, A. “Promise of Democracy in Nepal.” Paper prepared for State of Democracy in South Asia project coordinated by New Delhi-based Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS).
2004 Bhattarai, A. “Nepalma janasankhya niyantran” (population control in Nepal). In Deschene, M. and Onta P. [eds.] Nepalko sandarvama samajsashtriya gyana (Social Science knowledge in Nepali context) (Nepali). Social Science Baha, Kathmandu.
2004 Bhattarai, A. “The word and the world.” Seminar, April. http://www.india-seminar.com/2005/548/548%20anil%20bhattarai.htm accessed on 23January 2012.
2003 Bhattarai, A. 2003. “Mysterious afflictions” July. Himal South Asian.
2003 Bhattarai, A. 2003. “A case for radical non-violence” in Thapa, D. (Ed.) Understanding Maoist Movement in Nepal. Martin Chautari, Kathmandu. Pp.349-358.
Teaching Experience
Jan-Apr 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Toronto, Scarborough
Undergraduate course: Cities and Environment
- Ran weekly tutorial discussions among 30 students
- Advised students on assignments and exams
- Invigilated exams
- Graded exams and assignments
Jan-Apr 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Toronto, Scarborough
Undergraduate course: Logic of Geographic Thought
- Ran weekly tutorial discussions among 30 students
- Advised students on assignments and exams
- Invigilated exams
- Graded exams and assignments
Aug. -Dec. 2011 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Toronto, Scarborough
Undergraduate course: Geography of Global Processes
- Ran weekly tutorial discussions among 30 students
- Advised students on assignments and exams
- Invigilated exams
- Graded exams and assignments
Aug.-Dec. 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Toronto, Scarborough
Undergraduate course: Geography of Global Processes
- Ran weekly tutorial discussions among 30 students
- Advised students on assignments and exams
- Invigilated exams
- Graded exams and assignments
May-Aug 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Toronto, Scarborough
Undergraduate course: Cities and Environment
- Ran weekly tutorial discussions among 30 students
- Advised students on assignments and exams
- Invigilated exams
- Graded exams and assignments
May-Jun 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Toronto, Mississauga
Undergraduate course: Environment and the Roots of Globalization
- Graded exams and assignments
- Invigilated exam
Sept.-Dec. 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Toronto, Scarborough
Undergraduate course: Geography of Global Processes
- Ran weekly tutorial discussions among 30 students
- Advised students on assignments and exams
- Graded exams and assignments
Sept 2006—Apr. 2008 Graduate Teaching Assistant
Four Semesters Course: Introduction to General Anthropology
- Ran weekly tutorial discussions among 30 students
- Advised students on assignments and exams
- Invigilated exams
- Graded exams and assignments
Papers/ Presentations
Aug 2011 “Centering the regimes of use: Natural resources and debates around federalism in Nepal”, a public lecture during the conference on “Changing Dynamics of Nepali Society and Politics”, organized by Alliance for Social Dialogue, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, and Social Science Baha, 17-19 August, 2011, Kathmandu.
Mar 2009 “Radical politics and neoliberal development: Political context of neoliberalism in Nepal” presented at the Association of American Geographers annual conference in Las Vegas on 26 March.
Aug 2005 “Democratizing health globally,” a panel presentation on the sidelines of Helsinki Process Conference on 7 August, Helsinki, Finland.
