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Reigning the River : Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu /
A major contribution to the nascent anthropology of urban environments, Reigning the River illuminates the complexities of river restoration in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital and one of the fastest-growing cities in South Asia. In this rich ethnography, Anne M. Rademacher explores the ways that urb...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century : 42
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- About the Series
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. A Riverscape Undone
- 1. Creating Nepal in the Kathmandu Valley
- 2. Knowing the Problem
- 3. War, Emergency, and an Unsettled City
- 4. Emergency Ecology and the Order of Renewal
- 5. Ecologies of Invasion
- 6. Local Rivers, Global Reaches
- Conclusion. Anticipating Restoration
- Notes
- References
- Index