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Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu

Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu

Rademacher, Anne

Paperback

Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

AnthropologyEnvironmental StudiesIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0822350807
ISBN13: 9780822350804
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Oct 27 2011
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.07
Language: English
A major contribution to the nascent anthropology of urban environments, Reigning the River illuminates the complexities of river restoration in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital and one of the fastest-growing cities in South Asia. In this rich ethnography, Anne M. Rademacher explores the ways that urban riverscape improvement involved multiple actors, each constructing ideals of restoration through contested histories and ideologies of belonging. She examines competing understandings of river restoration, particularly among bureaucrats in state and conservation-development agencies, cultural heritage activists, and advocates for the security of tens of thousands of rural-to-urban migrants settled along the exposed riverbed.

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