Epicentre to Aftermath

Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal's Earthquakes
Herausgeber: Hutt, Michael; Lotter, Stefanie; Liechty, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyses the impact of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes and the need to understand disasters in their cultural and political context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 203mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781108834056
• ISBN-10: 1108834051
• Artikelnr.: 61488466

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Contextualizing Disaster: Preface; 1. Reconstituting pasts and
futures: contextual agency in a disaster aftermath Mark Liechty and Michael
Hutt; 2. Earthquakes in Nepali history John Whelpton; Part II. Rebuilding
Lives: 3. Expertise, labour and mobility in Nepal's post-conflict,
post-disaster reconstruction: Law, construction and finance as domains of
social transformation Sara Shneiderman, Dan Hirslund, Jeevan Baniya,
Philippe Le Billon, Bina Limbu, Bishnu Pandey, Katharine Rankin, Nabin
Rawal, Prakash Chandra Subedi, Manoj Suji, Deepak Thapa and Cameron Warner;
4. Labour and the humanitarian present: thinking through the 2015 Nepal
Earthquakes Shyam Kunwar, Elsie Lewison and Katharine N. Rankin; 5.
Disaster, deceptions, dislocations: reflections from an integrated
settlement project in Nepal Jeevan Baniya; 6. Humanitarian responses of
I/NGOs after the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake: empirical evidence from Gorkha,
Sindhupalchok and Southern Lalitpur Amrita Gurung and Jeevan Baniya; 7.
Policies, politics and practices of landslide risk management in
post-earthquake Nepal: perspectives from above and below Katie Oven,
Shubheksha Rana, Gopi K. Basyal, Nick Rosser and Mark Kincey; Part III.
Rebuilding Structures: 8. The politics of participatory disaster governance
in Nepal's post-earthquake reconstruction Nimesh Dhungana; 9. Changing
perspectives on international aid in Nepal since the 2015 earthquakes
Shobhit Shakya; 10. Reclaiming heritage: the politics and poetics of Newar
urbanism Sabin Ninglekhu, Patrick Daly and Pia Hollenbach; 11. Kathmandu
Durbar Square: heritage reconstruction as a political process of
negotiating ownership and authority by Stefanie Lotter; Part IV. Building
Memory: 12. Cultural heritage display after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal:
the architecture galleries, Patan Museum Katharina Weiler; 13. Art as
participation, gift and resource: Nepali artists' engagement in post-
earthquake Kathmandu Valley Christiane Brosius; 14. Gathering absences and
presences: memory work, photographs and affective recovery in the Langtang
Valley Austin Lord and Jennifer Bradley; 15. Bhukampa: Nepali recitations
of an earthquake aftermath Michael Hutt.