Reigning the River ：Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu

Publication series ：1

Author： Anne Rademacher  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9780822394525

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822350804

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822350620

Subject： K355.9 local annals

Keyword： Kathmandu (Nepal) -- Environmental conditions., Kathmandu (Nepal) -- Civilization., Kathmandu (Nepal) -- Politics and government., Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Nepal -- Kathmandu., Stream ecology -- Nepal -- Kathmandu.

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

Rademacher conducted research during a volatile period in Nepal’s political history. As clashes between Maoist revolutionaries and the government intensified, the riverscape became a site of competing 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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Contents

About the Series

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction. A Riverscape Undone

1. Creating Nepal in the Kathmandu Valley

2. Knowing the Problem

3. War, Emergency, and an Unsettled City

4. Emergency Ecology and the Order of Renewal

5. Ecologies of Invasion

6. Local Rivers, Global Reaches

Conclusion: Anticipating Restoration

Notes

References

Index

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