Publications of Michael Peter Hoffmann

Hoffmann, Michael Peter. 2015. In the shadows of the Maoist revolution: on the role of the 'People's War' in facilitating the occupation of symbolic space in Western Nepal. Critique of Anthropology 35(4): 389–406. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X15597308 .

Hoffmann, Michael Peter. 2014. Red salute at work: brick factory work in postconflict Kailali, western Nepal. Focaal 70: 67–80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2014.700106.

Hoffmann, Michael Peter. 2014. A symbiotic coexistence: Nepal’s Maoist movement and labour unions in an urban municipality in post-conflict far-western Tarai. Journal of South Asian Development 9(3): 213–234. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0973174114549099.

Hoffmann, Michael Peter. 2018. From casual to permanent work: Maoist unionists and the regularization of contract labor in the industries of Western Nepal. In: Chris Hann and Jonathan Parry (eds.). Industrial labor on the margins of capitalism: precarity, class, and the neoliberal subject. 1. ed. Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 4. New York; Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 336–354.

Hoffmann, Michael Peter. 2013. Labour unionism in a post-conflict context: Maoists, unionists, and formerly bonded labourers in an urban municipality in the Western Tarai. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 145. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Hoffmann, Michael Peter. 2023. Glimpses of hope: the rise of industrial labor at the urban margins of Nepal. Dislocations 32. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Hoffmann, Michael Peter. 2018. The partial revolution: labour, social movements and the invisible hand of Mao in western Nepal. Dislocations 21. New York; Oxford: Berghahn.

Hoffmann, Michael Peter. 2014. Strong vs. weak targets: urban activist practices of the Kamaiya movement in the western lowland of Nepal. focaal Blog. http://www.focaalblog.com/2014/10/31/michael-hoffmann-strong-vs-weak-targets-urban-activist-practices-of-the-kamaiya-movement-in-the-western-lowland-of-nepal/.