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Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu

Anne Rademacher

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Description for Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu Paperback. Illuminates the complexities of river restoration in Kathmandu - one of the fastest-growing cities in South Asia Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKN; RBKF; RNF; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
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 urban riverscape improvement involved multiple actors, each constructing ideals of restoration through contested histories and ideologies of belonging. She examines competing understandings of river restoration, particularly among bureaucrats in state and conservation-development agencies, cultural heritage activists, and advocates for the security of tens of thousands of rural-to-urban migrants settled along the exposed riverbed.

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Format

Paperback

Publication date

2011

Publisher

Duke University Press

Number of pages

240

Condition

New

Series

New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

Number of Pages

264

Place of Publication

North Carolina, United States

ISBN

9780822350804

SKU

V9780822350804

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About Anne Rademacher

Anne M. Rademacher is Assistant Professor of Environmental and Metropolitan Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University.

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“Anthropologists have just begun to turn their attention to cities in the south and Reigning the River is one of the first detailed ethnographies to effectively grapple with the cultural politics of urban natures. It is an admirable project and will not only be of immense relevance to a wide range of readers interested in questions of urban improvement, development, ... Read moreand livelihood struggles, but it also deserves to be read widely by undergraduate and graduate students of urban studies, environmental studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies. It is a pioneering contribution that is bound to have a lasting impact.” - Shubhra Gururani, American Ethnologist “[A] valuable resource for those with a general interest in urban problems or in Nepal for disciplinary specialists.” - John Whelpton, Asian Anthropology “It certainly does represent a considerable advance in the literature of environmentally conscious humanities research, with powerful general conclusions that can guide both practitioners and academics.” - Paul Brown, Asian Studies Review “Cutting-edge social science has not kept pace with the shift of most of the human population to urban areas. Anne M. Rademacher helps to remedy this deficiency by asking, as one of her informants did of her, ‘What is urban ecology?’ In answer, she shows how urban nature and culture are mutually produced, reinforced, and changed, deftly weaving into her analysis recent political and environmental transformations in Nepal. The result is a pioneering study of the moral and affective dimensions of a twenty-first-century urban environment. It is a model for a new generation of urban studies.”—Michael R. Dove, Yale University “This lucidly written and rigorously argued book is likely to become a major contribution to the anthropology of the Himalayan environment, and to the small but growing literature on urban modernity in Nepal. In the eyes of environmental activists, the sorry state of the Bagmati River is a metaphor for the state of Nepal itself. By elucidating the activists’ critique and their vision for a more ordered and coherent future, Anne M. Rademacher makes a deeply original contribution to political anthropology. This book deserves to be widely read both by students of Himalayan society, culture, and politics and by those who work in the areas of Nepal’s environment, development, and governance. The clarity of the writing makes it especially suitable as an undergraduate text in a range of courses on environment and development, political anthropology, urban anthropology, and South Asian studies.”—Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College “Rademacher provides an engaging ethnographic account of environmental and political transformation in Kathmandu, permeated with abundant historical material and written with a close yet critical understanding of the subject. The book, strong on theoretical references to interdisciplinary debates in social science and in the field of Nepal studies, has made its own important contributions in these fields.”
Tashi Tsering
Environmental History
“[A] valuable resource for those with a general interest in urban problems or in Nepal for disciplinary specialists.”
John Whelpton
Asian Anthropology
“Anthropologists have just begun to turn their attention to cities in the south and Reigning the River is one of the first detailed ethnographies to effectively grapple with the cultural politics of urban natures. It is an admirable project and will not only be of immense relevance to a wide range of readers interested in questions of urban improvement, development, and livelihood struggles, but it also deserves to be read widely by undergraduate and graduate students of urban studies, environmental studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies. It is a pioneering contribution that is bound to have a lasting impact.”
Shubhra Gururani
American Ethnologist
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