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New Publication: “Beyond Reconstruction: What Leads to Satisfaction in Post-Disaster Recovery?”
Ratna K. Shrestha, Raunak Shrestha, Sara Shneiderman, and Jeevan Baniya have just published a new academic article about the recovery following the 2015 earthquakes entitled “Beyond Reconstruction: What Leads to Satisfaction in Post-Disaster Recovery?” in the Journal of Happiness Studies. The authors found that freedom of choice throughout the reconstruction process is a much stronger […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
