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Reigning the river : urban ecologies and political transformation in Kathmandu / Anne M. Rademacher ; foreword by Dianne Rocheleau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rademacher, Anne.
- Series:
- New ecologies for the twenty-first century.
- New ecologies for the twenty-first century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--Nepal--Kathmandu.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Stream ecology--Nepal--Kathmandu.
- Stream ecology.
- Kathmandu (Nepal)--Environmental conditions.
- Kathmandu (Nepal).
- Kathmandu (Nepal)--Civilization.
- Kathmandu (Nepal)--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This ethnography of a river restoration project in Kathmandu, Nepal s capital and one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia, contributes to the nascent anthropology of urban environments.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a riverscape undone
- Creating Nepal in the Kathmandu Valley
- Knowing the problem
- War, emergency, and an unsettled city
- Emergency ecology and the order of renewal
- Ecologies of invasion
- Local rivers, global reaches
- Conclusion. anticipating restoration.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613293015
- 9781283293013
- 1283293013
- 9780822394525
- 0822394529
- OCLC:
- 757829596
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