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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”.
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.
Partnership to receive additional grant
New funds will be used to fund the project of ‘Nepal’s Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Outcomes: A Quantitative Survey’
New publication by partnership members
The article is titled ‘Geo-Logics of Power: Disaster Capitalism, Himalayan Materialities, and the Geopolitical Economy of Reconstruction in Post-Earthquake Nepal’
