New Photo Collection
We are pleased to announce that our fieldwork photo collection of 216 images has now been published by UBC cIRcle, an open-access digital repository for research and teaching materials. The full collection can be viewed here. This collection is a compilation of images taken by members of the Social Science Baha research team located in Kathmandu, […]
National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) Conference Presentation
On August 25th, 2020, Dr. Sara Shneiderman (Associate Professor in Anthropology and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC) presented a co-authored paper stemming from our SSHRC Partnership Development Grant at the web-based ‘National Symposium on Nepal’s Reconstruction (NSNR-2020) hosted by the Government of Nepal’s National Reconstruction Authority (NRA). The theme of the […]
Kathmandu Conference Presentation
Two members from our partnership team, Manoj Suji (Social Science Baha) and Nabin Rawal (Tribhuvan University) presented at the The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya on July 31st, 2020 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The paper titled “Discourse of Post-Earthquake Heritage Reconstruction: A Case Study of Bhaktapur Municipality” explores the discourse of post-earthquake heritage […]
Working paper published: “Reconstructing Nepal: Bhaktapur – Heritage and Urban Reconstruction”
We are pleased to announce that members of our research team at Social Science Baha (Manoj Suji, Bina Limbu, Nabin Rawal, Prakash Chandra Subedi, and Jeevan Baniya) have just published the second in the working paper series ‘Reconstructing Nepal: Scholarly Approaches’ (edited by Sara Shneiderman and Deepak Thapa). This publication is based on research conducted […]
New publication in Development and Change
We are happy to announce that project participants Philippe Le Billon (UBC), Manoj Suji (Social Science Baha), Jeevan Baniya (Social Science Baha), Bina Limbu (Social Science Baha), Dinesh Paudel (Appalachian State University), Katharine Rankin (University of Toronto), Nabin Rawal (Tribhuvan University) and Sara Shneiderman (UBC) have just published an article in Development and Change titled […]
New publication in Development and Change
We are happy to announce that members of the partnership team have recently published an article in Development and Change titled “Disaster Finacialization: Earthquakes, Cashflows and Shifting Household Economies in Nepal”.
New publication in BC Studies
Project participants Ramjee Parajulee (Capilano University), Sara Shneiderman (UBC), and Ratna K. Shrestha (UBC) have recently published an article in the journal BC Studies. The article, titled “Forging Community through Disaster Response: Nepali Canadians and the 2015 Earthquakes,” explores the community ties that were forged by Nepali-Canadians in British Columbia in the aftermath of Nepal’s […]
Working paper published: “Reconstructing Nepal: Bhaktapur – Heritage and Urban Reconstruction”
We are pleased to announce that members of our research team at Social Science Baha (Manoj Suji, Bina Limbu, Nabin Rawal, Prakash Chandra Subedi, and Jeevan Baniya) have just published the second in the working paper series ‘Reconstructing Nepal: Scholarly Approaches’ (edited by Sara Shneiderman and Deepak Thapa). This publication is based on research conducted […]
New essay published in The Conversation
We are pleased to announce that several members of our project (Sara Shneiderman, Jeevan Baniya, Philippe Le Billon, and Deepak Thapa) have produced a short essay that was just published today in The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/learning-from-disasters-nepal-copes-with-coronavirus-pandemic-5-years-after-earthquake-134009 It marks the fifth anniversary of Nepal’s earthquake, which is April 25th, and connects some of the outcomes from our […]