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OverviewEpicentre to Aftermath makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the growing body of disaster studies literature by providing an analysis of a disaster aftermath that is steeped in the political and cultural complexities of its social and historical context. Drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines, the book highlights the political, historical, cultural, artistic, emotional, temporal, embodied and material dynamics at play in the earthquake aftermath. Crucially, it shows that the experience and meaning of a disaster are not given or inevitable, but are the outcome of situated human agency. The book suggests a whole new epistemology of disaster consequences and their meanings, and dramatically expands the field of knowledge relevant to understanding disasters and their outcomes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Hutt (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) , Mark Liechty (University of Illinois) , Stefanie Lotter (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.70cm Weight: 0.740kg ISBN: 9781108834056ISBN 10: 1108834051 Pages: 478 Publication Date: 30 September 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPart 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationMichael Hutt is a scholar of Nepali literature who has authored and edited fourteen books and over fifty articles and book chapters on Nepali and Himalayan topics. His most recent book was the edited volume Political Change and Public Culture in Post-1990 Nepal published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. A cultural anthropologist by training, Mark Liechty has been a student of Nepali and South Asian culture and history for more than three decades. He is the author of three influential books on modern Nepal and a founding co-editor of the journal Studies in Nepali History and Society. Stefanie Lotter is Senior Teaching and Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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