{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-nordic-asia-podcast.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fpolitical-mythmaking-in-nepal-n5lxyxwf","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Political Mythmaking in Nepal","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/cb128d90-f83c-4b59-b10e-b3318cf004ca/66782e5d-14b7-4c1f-bbd6-028d458d1965/nordicasiapodcastsmall.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/9b8b89cf-1868-4b7e-a2dc-c733e51aa6ad\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Political Mythmaking in Nepal\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"How and why do local political processes in rural Nepal become an arena for political mythmaking? And, how do political myths obscure their own historical construction, thereby making hierarchical power structures appear inevitable? In this episode we discuss these questions with Ankita Shrestha whose ethnographic explorations into these issues foreground the persistent centrality of caste, gender and indigeneity to everyday forms of domination and hierarchy in contemporary rural Nepal.\nAnkita Shrestha holds a PhD in human geography from the University of Oslo.\nKenneth Bo Nielsen, a social anthropologist based in Oslo, and the leader of the centre for South Asian Democracy."}