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PROJECTS<\/a> | ENGLISH<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 ESPA\u00d1OL<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 FRAN\u00c7AIS<\/a><\/p>\n

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Feminist Memory Project<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Country: Nepal<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Participants: Nepali feminists and women\u2019s organisations<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Website<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Kathmandu, 1982 \/ Friends during their Bachelor\u2019s Convocation
\u00a9 Yaso Kanti Bhattachan Collection \/ Nepal Picture Library<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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The Feminist Memory Project (FMP)<\/em><\/a><\/strong> was conceived as an effort to create a permanent photo archive of women\u2019s and feminist movements in Nepal. The project is an initiative of Nepal Picture Library (NPL), which was established by Photocircle, the Nepali photography organisation, to build visual archives that create broad and inclusive narratives of Nepali history.<\/p>\n

Nepal is geographically, ethnically, and culturally diverse. The 2011 census recorded 123 different spoken languages. The country\u2019s 10-year internal conflict between the Nepali government and the Communist Party of Nepal, the Maoists, which officially ended with the signing of the 2006 Comprehensive Peace Accord, was driven by long-standing socio-economic inequalities and divisions. In the tumultuous years since, high levels of political tension and power struggles have overshadowed the voices of victims of the conflict and generated frustration and insecurity, leaving Nepalis disenchanted with politics. The conflict drivers of poverty, discrimination against minorities, and caste polarisation have not been addressed, and entrenched forms of conflict, including gender and caste-based violence, remain prevalent.<\/p>\n

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Daughter-in-law of Badakaji Ratna Man Singh and the wife of the political rebel Ganesh Man Singh, Mangala Devi was pulled into the limelight very early by her circumstances. Despite the enormous constraint she faced at home, she was making her presence felt in key debates over women\u2019s rights to education and suffrage. She always felt that women\u2019s primary revolt happens at home. By the time the Rana regime was overthrown in 1951, she was in the position to give the women\u2019s movement a wider organisational form. Nepal Women\u2019s Association, officially inaugurated in 1951 under her leadership, was the public face of mainstream feminism until King Mahendra’s coup in 1960.
\u00a9 Mangala Devi Singh Collection \/ Nepal Picture Library \/ Kanta Singh Manandhar Collection\/Nepal Picture Library<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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NPL uses the photographic archive as a means to capture the diversity of Nepal\u2019s history to foster inclusion and democracy in the country. Their digital photo archives, which include over 100,000 photographs and documents collected from various private and public sources, act as a safe and open repository for materials that show alternative and diverse representations of Nepali history. This collaborative production of history involves a concerted effort to unearth the obscured stories, often from Nepal\u2019s poorer and marginal communities, to counter dominant singular national narratives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Feminist Memory Project<\/em> was conceived in 2018 with the aim to document and create visibility around the ways in which women have participated in and shaped politics, education, and society at large. The archive holds plural stories that range from the histories of pioneering Nepali feminist leaders to village women who became active in political struggles, including as members of the Maoist party during the civil war. Together, these histories show how Nepali women voice protest and build solidarity against violence and repressive state politics, traditions, and cultures.<\/p>\n

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\u2018To become public is to be seen and accounted for in history. The journey of Nepali women from within the boundaries of domesticity to the openness of public life is a move from obscurity to memory’.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Recuperating history via photographs, NPL takes a participatory and dialogue-based approach to archive building. The collection is gathered through citizen\u2019s contributions and consists of an evolving conversation with communities in Nepal. A team of NPL researchers undertook extensive and sustained regional outreach work to listen to and collect photographs from individuals, families, and institutions around the country to build the FMP archive. For some groups, little visual documentation exists, so their archival methods combine oral history with the gathering of other documents and publications as well as photographs. The FMP collection has been exhibited in Nepal and internationally and used in schools.<\/p>\n

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Contributors to the Feminist Memory Project<\/em> photographed together at a project exhibition in Kathmandu.
\u00a9 Nepal Picture Library<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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Kathmandu, 1981<\/strong>
Women from all walks of life gather for a mass meeting in Kathmandu to submit a letter of protest to the government following the rape and murder of sisters Namita and Sunita Bhandari in Pokhara that rocked the country.
\u00a9 Hisila Yami Collection \/ Nepal Picture Library<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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Photographs and documents of Female Community Health Volunteers. The volunteer program was started in 1988 by the Ministry of Health of Population to promote family planning and distribute contraceptives, later also providing maternal and child health care. The volunteer service has had a major impact in terms of advancing discussions on reproductive rights.
\u00a9 Female Community Health, Volunteers Collection \/ Nepal Picture Library<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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