
Nepal’s new reality
The youth-led uprising in Nepal has toppled the old guard, but its endurance depends on whether anger at corruption and inequality can be translated into lasting political change.
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Fraser Sugden is an associate professor in geography at the University of Birmingham. He is an agrarian political economist who works in the field of migration, land reform, action research, and Marxist theories of the global peasantry and imperialism.
The youth-led uprising in Nepal has toppled the old guard, but its endurance depends on whether anger at corruption and inequality can be translated into lasting political change.