Mark Turin, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Daisy Yang, Artist and Photographer, Vancouver, Canada
ABSTRACT
Across Nepal, large numbers of adolescent boys and young men leave their rural homes to find work and
live out their dreams in the burgeoning metropolis of Kathmandu, the nation’s capital. In this challenging
transition, they have to navigate their emerging identities as independent young men—as brothers, sons,
fathers, husbands and wage earners in the construction economy. In this visual essay of 15 photographs,
artist Daisy Yang and anthropologist Mark Turin explore questions of migration, mobility, labour and
kinship by engaging with the harsh reality of working-class masculinities in contemporary Nepal.
KEYWORDS
Nepal; Class; Masculinities; Gender; Migration; Labour.
