ABSTRACT
Society is a relational space regulated by certain discourses and social relations made visible through the performative acts of individuals. Each of these relational spaces, in Pierre Bourdieu's terms, have their own rules and logics followed by stakeholders and agents. Bourdieu outlines the relationships and interactions between social structures within an overarching framework, the symbolic order that is masculine domination. According to him, 'the social order functions as an immense symbolic machine tending to ratify the masculine domination on which it is founded'. The concept of the field in Bourdieu's theory on social life provides a framework for 'relational analysis' of 'the multidimensional space of positions and the position taking of agents'. Michel Foucault's notion of subject position enables the understanding of transformation in Nepal; it helps locate the multi-dimensional power relations that a single person can experience in a multi-dimensional society.
