When 'We' became 'I'... merely 'I'... #development #dolpo

None can deny that every remote communities have become the fetishised product of 'uneven development'. Questions, such as whether they have become mere colonial subjects might not properly justify the specific political history that predate any draconian imperial imprints and projects. On the other hand, besides imperial powers claiming superiority and ordaining materialist order and subsequent foreigners including tourists and state officials generally attain high social mobility and unopposed liaison over natives land and territory, the unjust processes have allowed certain individuals mainly elite (class and social status) also from the land to neglect their vices (both in morality and praxis) that continue to exacerbate inequality across whole community. In such hybridity, unjust history can be forgotten even when certain forms of elite history are (re)created. Meanwhile, generally what both these groups tend to forget and nullify are docile bodies of many locals and collectives at margins sharing different spatial and temporal settings who materialize these materialistic interventions.

Dolpo–as one of those scattered communities with its specific socio-cultural, political, economic, and ecological history have long suffered from that unjust process extensively since 1960s. To what extent families at margins have benefited are open to questions but limited in our different theoretical and geographic imaginations and perspectives.