Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Earthquake Reconstruction: Construction, Finance, and Law as Domains of Social Transformation

Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction

November events on Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths
Project lead Sara Shneiderman, Associate Professor in UBC’s Department of Anthropology and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, is organizing and participating in two upcoming discussion forums on earthquake aftermaths. The first event is a public roundtable discussion on Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths, to be held at the UBC on November 21. This roundtable […] Read More
This website is the home for our research partnership focusing on reconstruction efforts in Nepal after the 2015 earthquakes.

Dolakha, Nepal, December 2016. Photo by Sara Shneiderman. Read More
Working paper published: ‘Reconstructing Nepal: Post-Earthquake Experiences from Bhaktapur, Dhading, and Sindhupalchowk’
The paper examines various forms of expertise and governance practices in relation to house-building processes. Read More
Op-ed: Reconstruction Conundrums
Several partnership members have published an op-ed in the Kathmandu Post. Read More
This website is the home for our research partnership focusing on reconstruction efforts in Nepal after the 2015 earthquakes.

Photo by Katherine Hacker. Read More

Welcome to the website for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded Partnership Development Grant ‘Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Earthquake Reconstruction: Construction, Finance, and Law as Domains of Social Transformation’. We are a team of scholars from Canada, Denmark, Nepal and the US.

Please find basic information here about our objectives, workplan, short bios of team members, information on workshops, records of presentations, reflective blogs, funding, and links to partners’ websites.

Our partnership work began in mid-2017, and this website will be updated as we have more material to share.

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Events

November events on Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths

Project lead Sara Shneiderman, Associate Professor in UBC’s Department of Anthropology and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, is organizing and participating in two upcoming discussion forums on earthquake aftermaths. The first event is a public roundtable discussion on Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths, to be held at the UBC on November 21. This roundtable […]

Working paper published: ‘Reconstructing Nepal: Post-Earthquake Experiences from Bhaktapur, Dhading, and Sindhupalchowk’

The paper examines various forms of expertise and governance practices in relation to house-building processes.

Presentation at NEEDS Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden

Project members presented on a case-study of Bhaktapur heritage reconstruction.

Final Partnership Workshop in Denmark

Our 3rd and final international partnership workshop for this grant project was held in Denmark from May 24th-28th, 2019

Sister School Partnership between Bayview School (Vancouver, Canada) & Sundrawati School (Dolakha, Nepal)

A group of students from Bayview have become penpals with students at Sundrawati to learn about the devastating effects of Nepal’s 2015 earthquakes.

New bibliographic resource guide published

The new resource guide is prepared by a project at SOAS, in collaboration with Social Science Baha.

New book publication: The Politics of Change: Reflections on Contemporary Nepal

Partnership member Mr. Thapa has edited this new book, and Dr. Shneiderman has co-authored a chapter on Citizenship and Inclusion in Nepal.

Op-ed: Reconstruction Conundrums

Several partnership members have published an op-ed in the Kathmandu Post.

Partners present at SOAS conference in London & Dr. Sara Shneiderman to give keynote address

Partnership members from our Canada and Nepal teams presented during the SOAS South Asia Institute conference, "Epicentre to Aftermath: Political, Social and Cultural Impacts of Earthquakes in South Asia", in London, January 2019.

Nepal Workshop Report Published in HIMALAYA

The workshop report from the first partnership workshop held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver in September 2017 has been published.

November events on Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths

Joint conference panel with SWAY project in Kathmandu

Several research team members presented at the 7th Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya, 24-26 July 2019, as members of the panel “From Epicentre to Aftermath: Ethnographic and Historical Views of Post-Earthquake Nepal”. This joint panel was organized in cooperation with the project “After the Earth’s Violent Sway: the tangible and intangible legacies […]

May 28th Public Seminar at University of Copenhagen

The public seminar presented findings from our research project in dialogue with scholars working on disasters in other areas of the world.

Partners present at SOAS conference in London & Dr. Sara Shneiderman to give keynote address

Annual Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya

Members of our project participated in two panel sessions. Jul 25-27, 2018, Kathmandu.

Catastrophe in Context: Household Recoveries from the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes

Dr. Jeremy Spoon presents findings from his NSF-funded Nepal Critical Transitions Project. Mar 5, 2018, UBC.

Start-Up Workshop

Reconstructing Nepal: Politics and Practice after the 2015 Earthquakes and Constitution. Sep 14-17, 2017, UBC.