Anne Rademacher: Reigning the River

Cover: 9780822350804 | Reigning the River | Anne Rademacher | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2011

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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 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.

Über den Autor

Anne M. Rademacher is Assistant Professor of Environmental and Metropolitan Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series viii

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction. A Riverscape Undone 1

1. Creating Nepal in the Kathmandu Valley 42

2. Knowing the Problem 57

3. War, Emergency, and an Unsettled City 91

4. Emergency Ecology and the Order of Renewal 116

5. Ecologies of Invasion 139

6. Local Rivers, Global Reaches 155

Conclusion. Anticipating Restoration 175

Notes 185

References 211

Index 237

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Importe , Umwelt
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Ökologie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822350804
ISBN-10:	0822350807
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Rademacher, Anne
Redaktion:	Escobar, Arturo Rocheleau, Dianne
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	230 x 155 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Anne Rademacher
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.10.2011
Gewicht:	0,376 kg