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The tangible and intangible legacies of a natural disaster

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Publications

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

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

    Cambridge University Press

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

    Michael Hutt

    Conflict, Security & Development - Volume 20, 2020 - Issue 3

  • John Whelpton’s interview with Koseli

    John Whelpton

    September 22, 2019

    Koseli

  • Michael Hutt’s Interview in Kantipur, December 2 2017

    December 2, 2017

    Kantipur

  • Notes from the Archive: Management of The Relief and Reconstruction after the Great Earthquake of 1934

    Yogesh Raj

    Studies in Nepali History and Society 20(2): 375–422

  • Heritage, continuity and nostalgia

    Hutt, Michael

    October 14, 2014

    culanth.org

  • Tired of Waiting

    Baniya, Jeevan

    August 9, 2017

    The Kathmandu Post

  • Management of the relief and reconstruction after the Great earthquake of 1934

    Raj, Yogesh

    October 14, 2015

    Martinchautari

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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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