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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 Rademacher explores the ways that urban river-scape improvement involved multiple actors, each constructing their 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 on the exposed riverbed. Rademacher conducted research during a volatile period in Nepal's political history. As clashes between Maoist revolutionaries and the ruling government intensified, the river-scape became a site of multiple claims to a capital city that increasingly functioned as a last refuge from war-related violence. In this time of intense flux, efforts to ensure, create, or imagine ecological stability intersected with aspirations for political stability. Throughout her analysis, Rademacher emphasizes ecology as an important site of dislocation, entitlement, and cultural meaning.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Earth sciences Hydrology & the hydrosphere

• Pełny tytuł: Reigning the River
• Podtytuł: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu
• Autor: Anne Rademacher, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 264
• EAN: 9780822350620
• ISBN: 0822350629
• ID: 04939404
• Wydawca: Duke University Press
• Waga: 494 g
• Wymiary: 237 × 158 × 21 mm
• Data wydania: 27. October 2011

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