‘Rules that apply in times of crisis’: time, agency, and norm-remaking during Nepal's People's War

摘要: This article explores how people in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal adopted previously transgressive norms and practices during decade People's War (1996-2006). By examining rise beef-eating inter-caste commensality, this suggests that temporal dimension wartime ‘when different rules apply’ was crucial making accept new ideas break established on a scale atypical for ‘normal’ times peace. Analysing agency activists, who self-consciously tried to implement project radical social transformation, those were caught midst transformative endeavour, argues contours ‘new society’ emerged not only due revolutionaries’ intentional actions but also because ‘exceptional’ nature wartime, which forced radically re-create their daily lives. transgressing norms, ‘ordinary’ did deliberately undermine normative order, rather responded constraints when people's ethical choices mostly driven by need secure survival families ensure continuity life itself.