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“...Himalayan Trauma: Administrative Thrombosis and Citizens’ Response Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Austin Lord and Sienna Craig for their review of the article and their many insightful comments and suggestions. He also would like to express a deep sense of gratitude and respect for all the volunteers^ doctors, and nurses he had the privilege to work with and for the support both monetary and spiritual that manifested as a result of social media virtual participant experiences from around the world. This perspectives is available in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: http:/ / digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss2/8...”
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“...Himalayan Trauma: Administrative Thrombosis and Citizens' Response Robert E. Beazley In this paper, the author uses excerpts from social media postings and traditional media to highlight how various citizen and volunteer responses to the 2015 earthquake helped fill in the gaps created by institutional dysfunction. Further, he shows how these two types of media played a critical role in facilitating communication between grassroots aid initiatives and earthquake affected people and their families and friends, not only in Kathmandu but also in neglected mountainous areas as well. The author uses a personal, reflexive approach to help situate the distinct experiences of earthquake affected people including trauma patients, people with disabilities, and volunteer aid workers. Keywords: Nepal, earthquake, trauma, citizens' response, health care, disaster aid and relief. Introduction Sudan Gurung arrived by scooter at the Bir National Trauma Center on April 25, 2015, carrying a man with an injured...”
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“...when not conducting social science research at my site in northern Rasuwa District near the Tibetan border. Within the first 45 days of the initial earthquake, Nepal experienced 553 aftershocks of local magnitude greater than 4.0 on the Richter scale (Adhikari et al. 2015), not to mention the major aftershocks greater than magnitude 4.0 and the main aftershock of May 12, 2015 (magnitude 7.3) which created a whole new round of destruction and chaos, especially in rural areas northeast of Kathmandu. The aftershocks continued and are still occurring presently in Nepal.1 Like Sudan, I was caught off-guard by the earthquakes, despite all of the ways that the possibility of natural disaster always looms large in Nepal. And, like Sudan, after these events, I found myself swept up in relief efforts, much of which was facilitated by social media, as well as implicated in various citizen and volunteer responses to these tragedies. In this Perspectives article, I describe how social media and more t...”
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“...experiencing an excess of volunteers whereas the night shift had minimal coverage. As I began contacting people, I was surprised how many agreed to do at least a partial night shift. During my first day, I met many Nepali volunteers as well as a handful of foreigners. Most of the foreigners were trekkers on vacation; some had previous experience in first aid; one was a doctor on vacation from Sri Lanka. Social media provided an invaluable platform for people to communicate with each other and the outside world about what was happening on the ground during and after the earthquakes. My own social media posts at the time reflect the chaos and shock I experienced when I first started working with 12 We. After facing a particularly challenging experience on April 28, 2015,1 wrote the following on Facebook: I was assigned to a nine-year-old girl when I ar- rived. She had two broken arms, a compound frac- tured leg, and what they call a ‘ping pong’ fracture in the top of her head. A huge rock had...”
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“...reached. Soon, the number of volunteers reached more than 1,000. Some vol- unteers began organizing similar missions further afield. These improvisational efforts were particularly salient as they were based on context-specific information that was filtering in from patients and refugees arriving from mountainous areas where communication had been cut off and where state or large-scale humanitarian organizations’ efforts had neither been focused nor prioritized. The Role of the Media Through both social media and conventional news plat- forms, word spread about compelling stories like Tsering’s, often to the point where news teams began lining up to get their crack at a story. Some patients became earth- quake-injured celebrities. Their stories were reproduced on different networks. News teams from around the world began arriving as more images reached the global public. A Time magazine correspondent pulled me aside to get the perspective of a volunteer. His hurried demeanor spoke to the focus...”
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“...fringes of an already marginalized existence (Lord et al. 2016). Mobilization in Areas of Social and Institutional Neglect It was truly impressive to see the worldwide response to the earthquake. A total of 54 search and rescue (SAR) teams (2,080 personnel including staff) arrived in Nepal to help with the response (Shenhar et al. 2016). While I was volunteering, search and rescue teams from India, Israel, Japan, and the United Arab Emirates visited the Trauma Center. And yet, much of the immediate response to the earthquake centered largely on the Kathmandu Valley. Within days, however, a second wave of response from Nepali volunteers emerged, as several groups of talented, dedicated, and resourceful Nepali citizens began the process of supplying aid and resources to communities in earthquake-affected districts across their country. One example of such mobilization—and its intersections with the social media as well as diasporic Nepal—came in the form of the Nepalese American Nurses Association...”
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“...ons to help address areas of social and institutional neglect in Rasuwa District where three of us had spent several months doing ethnographic research (Murton, Lord, and Beazley 2016). Through our work as Rasuwa Relief, we pursued a variety of collaborations with various other grassroots humanitarian initiatives such as the Himalayan Disaster Relief Volunteer Group5 (a.k.a. “Yellow House”), Kathmandu Living Labs,6 and the Phulmaya Foundation,7 led by Rajeev Goy al, another colleague from Cornell and founder of KTK-BELT.8 Most of these connections were facilitated through Facebook and other social media networks. We used online crowd-sourcing technologies to raise funds, reflecting a pattern of self-organization that has become increasingly common in the wake of disaster as in everyday life. While working as Rasuwa Relief, we also became aware of the many areas that were overlooked by both state and other volunteer organizations. Connections through social media helped us map and respond...”
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“...meetings and events...and a re-arrangement of the relations between domestic and public space...There is increasing convergence between transport and communication, ‘mobi- lizing’ the requirements and characteristics of co-presence into a new kind of mobility nexus. Since April 2015, many people have written about the vital role virtual mobility technologies played in earth- quake relief efforts (see Busso et al. 2015, Carpenter 2015, Schorr and Warner 2015). The use of virtual mobility technologies—social media, smartphones, radios, and open source mapping—was instrumental in getting the word out, recruiting volunteers, raising funds, network- ing, and organizing logistics. The day of the earthquake Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook activated Safety Check on Facebook—a way by which individuals in Nepal could notify friends and family that they were safe. Within hours, a team of volunteers led by Mark Turin (University of British Columbia) translated this into Nepali, making the function many times...”
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“...networks in the Annapurna Conservation Area. His current research involves an investigation of gendered mobility and borderland infrastructure in Rasuwa district, Nepal. His most recent book is Himalayan Mobilities: An Exploration of the Impact of Expanding Rural Road Networks on Social and Ecological Systems in the Nepalese Himalaya (Springer, 2017). The author would like to thank Austin Lord and Sienna Craig for their review of the article and their many insightful comments and suggestions. He also would like to express a deep sense of gratitude and respect for all the volunteers, doctors, and nurses he had the privilege to work with and for the support both monetary and spiritual that manifested as a result of social media virtual participant experiences from around the world. Endnotes 1. See . 2. Pseudonym. 3. See . 4. See
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“...of Smartphones as Public Earthquake-Information Tools and Tools for the Rapid Engagement with Eyewitnesses: A Case Study of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Sequence. Seismological Research Letters 86(6): 1587-1592 Carpenter, Sue. 2015. Rise of the Facebook Crusader: After the Devastating Earthquake in April, a New Generation of Aid Workers Emerged in Nepal - Young People Using Social Media to Help Save Lives and Rebuild the Country. Daily Mail 15/08/2015. social-media-help-save-lives- rebuild-country.html> (Accessed on 1 October 2016). Craig, Sienna. 2015. ‘Slow’ Medicine in Fast Times. Savage Minds, 23/06/2015. (Accessed on 24 June 2016). D’Andrea, Wendy, Lou Bergholz, Andrea Fortunato, and Joseph Spinazzola. 2013. Play to the Whistle: A Pilot Investigation of a...”
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“...Lions Roar. 2015. How Buddhists are Helping after the Earthquake. Lions Roar, 25/05/2015. (Accessed on 3 September 2015). Lord, Austin, Bandita Sijapati, Jeevan Biniya, Obindra Chand, and Tracey Ghale. 2016. Disaster, Disability, & Difference: A Study of the Challenges Faced by Persons with Disabilities in Post-Earthquake Nepal. Kathmandu: Social Science Baha and the United Nations Development Program. Maharjan, Uttam. 2015. Psychological Counseling for Quake Victims. The Rising Nepal, 21/05/2015. (Accessed on 3 September 2016). Maru, Duncan, Kalaunee, S. P., and Shanta Bahadur Shrestha. 2016. Building Health Care Systems In Post- Earthquake, Post-Constitution Nepal. Heath Affairs, 04/04/2016.