Dr. Rabindra Chaulagain

Rabindra Chaulagain photo

Assistant Professor

Office:  BAC 312
Phone: (902) 585-1210
Email:  rabindra.chaulagain@acadiau.ca

Student Hours
Wednesdays 2 pm-3 pm for Issues in Developing Societies
Mondays 2 pm-3 pm for Thinking Through Society

Education

BA (Tribhuvan U), MA (Tribhuvan U), M PHIL (Pokhara U), MA (WLU), PhD (ULethbridge)

Research/Teaching Interests

  • Migration
  • Critical Refugee Studies
  • Border Studies
  • Social Theory
  • Bio and Necropolitics
  • Race
  • Gender
  • Sexuality
  • Qualitative Methodology
  • Global Postcolonialism
  • Indigenous Anticolonialism

Teaching (2025 - 2026)

Fall 2025
SOCI-2103-FA01, Thinking Through Society
SOCI-2113-FA01, Issues in Developing Societies


Winter 2026
SOCI-1033-WI01, Social Problems
SOCI-2103-WI01, Thinking Through Society
SOCI-3013-WI01, Contemporary Social Theory

Publications

Books

Chaulagain, R. Refuging Continuity, Narrating Political Subjectivity: The Biopolitics of Displacement, Camp, and Community (Athabasca University Press, projected publication year 2026)

Chaulagain, R. and Bonifacio, G (in Progress). Migration in Turmoil: Political Chaos, Contingent Mobility, and the Canadian Experience [University of British Columbia Press]

Edited Journal

Chaulagain, R. and Carlson, J. (in progress). Disposability, Deportability and Death: Migrating (In)Humanities. Special Issue, Critical Humanities. (projected publication year 2026 Fall)

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Chaulagain, R. (Accepted). Humanitarianisms of Life and Death: The Arc of Biopolitics from Foucault and Agamben to Esposito and Mbembe (International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Springer Nature)

Chaulagain R. (Accepted). Biopolitical Life and Beyond: Critical Reflections on Foucault and Agamben (Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory)

Chaulagain, R. & Pokhrel, N. (2026) “Systemic Discrimination and Caste-Based Violence in Nepal” in Damai, P. (edits). The Other Nepal: Alterity in Nepali Literature and Culture. (Cambridge University Press).

Chaulagain, R. “6 Post-structuralism”. (2025) In Damai, (ed.). Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory: Concepts and Applications Routledge.

Chaulagain, R. (2023) “Resettlement, Racism and Resilience: Lived Experiences of Bhutanese Refugees in the City of Lethbridge”. In Hodes, C and Bonifacio, G. (Eds.), Racism in Southern Alberta and Anti-Racist Activism for Change. Athabasca University Press.

Chaulagain, R.  (2023) “Dispositif, Biopolitical Governance, and Significance of Genealogical Approach to Study Refugees and Refugee Camp”. Critical Humanities.

Chaulagain, R., Nasser, W., & Young, J.E.E. (2022) #StayHomeSaveLives: Essentializing entry and Canada’s biopolitical COVID borders. Special Issue: 'Borders and the Global COVID-19 Pandemic,' Journal of Borderlands Studies, 1-18