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AFTER THE EARTH’S VIOLENT SWAY

The tangible and intangible legacies of a natural disaster

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Project Narrative

Do the rules and conventions that governed cultural and social life and political decision-making before a disaster continue to be…

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Impact Statement

This project will contribute substantially to understandings of the longterm sociopolitical and cultural impacts of natural disasters, especially in aid-dependent…

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Funder

‘AFTER THE EARTH’S VIOLENT SWAY’ is funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund through the Arts and Humanities Research Council…

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Project Personnel

Principal Investigator: Michael Hutt, SOAS University of London Co-Investigator: Stefanie Lotter, SOAS University of London Co-Investigator: Mark Liechty, University of…

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    Creating ‘Under the Skin’, a research comic on post-earthquake Tattoo art

      13th Jun, 2019   3,374 views   0 1.0

    1. How the idea for ‘Under the skin’ came about [caption id="attachment_480" align="alignleft" width="225"] Image M. Bajracharya[/caption] Recently, visual story-telling…

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    Co-temporality and aftermath epistemology in the wake of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes, by Uma Pradhan

    9th May, 2019 2,282 views 5 1.0

    ‘I can never forget how I felt during the earthquake. The ground was constantly shaking, and I thought our time…

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    A Visit to the Epicentre, by Michael Hutt and Khem Shreesh

    28th Mar, 2019 3,535 views 5 1.0

    Michael Hutt and Khem Shreesh visited the villages of Barpak and Laprak in Gorkha district on 6-9 March 2019.  Barpak,…

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    Discussing the changing perspective of international aid in Nepal since the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake, by Shobit Shakya

    26th Mar, 2019 2,745 views 5 1.0

    My ongoing PhD research investigates the guthi institution of Nepal and assesses its relevance in the contemporary context as a…

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    Stefanie Lotter’s chapter “Curating the Earthquake’ (pp. 108-18) published on ‘Collecting Loss’.

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    Epicentre to Aftermath: Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal’s Earthquakes

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    Before the dust settled: is Nepal’s 2015 settlement a seismic constitution?

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This project will document and analyse the cultural and political impacts of Nepal’s 2015 earthquakes.  The physical impact of a natural disaster such as a major earthquake is immediately visible: lost lives, displaced people, destroyed houses and a shattered cultural heritage.  However, the longer-term impact and legacy of such an event is less apparent.

The project is structured along three distinct but inter-related themes.  It will examine public discourse to understand social and political change; it will study efforts to reclaim and reinvent material culture; and it will study archival material to identify the permanent marks left by previous disasters.

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