Since the 1990s, Thamel—a dense neighborhood in Kathmandu, Nepal—has become the primary hub of transgressive, experimental cultural practice among young urban Nepalis. The multivalent assemblage of Thamel reflects emergent lifeworlds that challenge “traditional” conceptions of Nepali identity, and the place produces those emergent lifeworlds as well. Such transformations contest normative social roles, intersecting with multiple power relations at multiple scales. The “spatial production of cosmopolitanism” refers to this co-constitutive relation between space and culture, highlighting how everyday cosmopolitanisms emerge and manifest in spatial practice. Contemporary Nepali cosmopolitanisms take many forms in Thamel, but it is through the spatial agglomeration of diverse subjects—and the consequent disorientation it induces—that new modes of Nepali selfhood take shape. [cosmopolitanism, cities, assemblage, urbanism, place, popular culture, Kathmandu, Nepal]

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在加德满都泰美尔实习

自 1990 年代以来，尼泊尔加德满都人口稠密的泰美尔 (Thamel) 社区已成为年轻的城市尼泊尔人进行违法文化实践的主要中心。Thamel 的多元组合反映了挑战尼泊尔身份“传统”概念的新兴生活世界，而这个地方也产生了这些新兴生活世界。这种转变与规范的社会角色竞争，在多个尺度上与多种权力关系相交。“世界主义的空间生产”指的是空间与文化的这种共构关系，突出了日常世界主义在空间实践中的出现和表现。当代尼泊尔的世界主义在泰美尔有多种形式，但正是通过不同主题的空间聚集——以及随之而来的迷失方向——尼泊尔人的新自我模式才得以形成。[世界主义,城市,组合,都市主义,地方,流行文化,加德满都,尼泊尔]