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“...the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies Volume 37 | Number 2 Article 9 December 2017 Aftershock: Reflections on the Politics of Reconstruction in Northern Gorkha Rune Bolding Bennike University of Copenhagen, runebennike@gmail.com Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya Recommended Citation Bennike, Rune Bolding (2017) "Aftershock: Reflections on the Politics of Reconstruction in Northern Gorkha," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 37 : No. 2, Article 9. Available at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss2/9 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- Macalester College Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Perspectives is brought to you for free and open access by the DigitalCommons(2)Macalester College at DigitalCommons(2)Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies...”
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“...Aftershock: Reflections on the Politics of Reconstruction in Northern Gorkha Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Geoff Childs and colleagues at the Rule and Rupture Research Program as well as one anonymous reviewer for incisive comments to drafts of the article. Research for the article was supported by the European Research Council. This perspectives is available in HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: http:/ / digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol37/iss2/9...”
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“...and the economic inequalities that can arise from unlucky positioning along geological fault-lines, a recently booming tourist economy, and the specificities of the Nepali government's post-disaster compensation schemes. This article sketches out the anatomy of disaster 'aftershock' as a political environment rife with opportunity, bias, and unintended consequences. As scholars and interested observers of Nepal and the Himalaya, we need to pay close attention to this environment and its potentially unequal outcomes that reverberate past this present moment of taking stock. Keywords: Nepal, earthquake, aftershock, reconstruction, politics. HIMALAYA Volume37,Number2 55...”
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“...of‘aftershock’—as a social and political phenomenon rather than a seismic one. In the wake of disaster, as relief aid and reconstruction funding has poured into Nepal, a multitude of political and economic, as well as personal and social, transformations are taking place. Following disasters in other times and places, people often refer to this ‘aftershock’ as a ‘second earthquake’ or a ‘tsunami after the tsunami.’ As such expressions indicate, the magnitude of these post-disaster changes is easily perceived as being on par with that of the disaster itself. The aftershock speeds up, intensifies and—sometimes—alters the existing social structures and processes of change. To give one obvious example, after seven years of political deadlock, the aftershock environ- ment facilitated the making of a new, and controversial, constitution for Nepal. This article addresses some of the dynamics taking place in the aftershock through a range of both firsthand observations and analyses of ongoing public debates...”
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“...be counted and evaluated on exactly the same basis as the Haiti earthquake or the Pakistan floods. The framework of this formula thus speaks to a tabula rasa imagination of disaster, where disasters wipe clean the slate of society so that post-disaster interventions can be planned in the same way whether they are operating in the high Himalaya of Nepal or the Caribbean island of Haiti. In fact, many of the international specialists who began to stream into Nepal after the quake seemed to be selected for the job specifically because of their past experience in Haiti. As in other post-disaster situations (Simpson and Serafini 2015:17), the Nepal PDNA was an extremely rough and hasty product. For instance, a friend and I were suddenly invited into the World Bank office to comment on their estimates for damage to the tourism sector based on our severely limited experience working in Gorkha after the earthquake. There were only a few days to the deadline and the Bank needed to come up with some...”
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“..., we handed over as much information as we possibly could. What we are dealing with here is participant-observation with a clear emphasis on participation. My academic reflec- tions have mostly come later, after I returned from Nepal. Since I left the country in early July 2015,1 have been back twice: for a two-week visit in January 2016 and a six-week stay in November-December 2016. These visits have been enlightening for the glimpses they have given me of the aftershock as a continuously unfolding reality. In January 2015, Nepal’s new contentious constitution was passed, and the country was still in the grip of the fuel blockade that followed its promulgation. In November and December of 2015 public debate was filled with discussions about 'tin lakh1—the Nepal Reconstruction Authority’s promise to provide Nrs. 300,000 to each household whose house was fully damaged during the earthquake. Each visit gave me a new perspective on what the aftershock of disaster means. In my mind, however...”
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“...representative ascertained what seemed to be a foregone conclusion: that the agency would supply large quantities of rice to the households in the VDC. Five minutes later, they were gone again, but the visit had palpably illustrated how the ever-uncertain horizon of future relief arrivals complicated distribution. Even though dealing with the influx of relief material was a complicated political affair in the village, for the WFP it was mainly a logistical matter. As one represen- tative stated, Tn Nepal, we are working in some of the HIMALAYA Volume37,Number2 59...”
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“...Figure 2. Small measures of dal handed out on distribution day in Bihi. (Bennike, 2015) most difficult terrain in the world, and the challenge will be compounded by the monsoon’ (Dixit 2015). Under what became known as Operation Mountain Express, the agency made an agreement with the Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal and the Nepal Mountaineering Association to hire up to 20,000 porters and mules in order to ‘repair the damaged trails and transport 4,000 metric tons (MT) of food and relief items.’8 The WFP and partners approached this operation with clear professionalism; for instance, employing a professional film crew to document their work9 and producing a ‘subway map’ that specifies ‘staging areas,’ ‘transportations corridors’ and a ‘through- put’ measured in metric tons per month (MT/mth). Nonetheless, the whole operation was framed exclusively as a matter of most efficiently pouring resources into the area across an incredibly challenging physical terrain; all reflections about...”
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“...people were now offered positions as local ‘coordinators’ or ‘mobilizers’ in various reconstruction projects. For some people, it was suddenly possible to earn a decent wage for very little work11 while staying in the village and only undertaking occasional visits to Gorkha or Kathmandu to report or participate in ‘training’ events. My friend, Nyima, who had travelled with me to Bihi after the earthquake, maintained connections to some German donors. Employed by the new German-funded ‘Initiative Nepal Kids’ (INK), he is now overseeing the construction of a school in Bihi and splitting his time between Kathmandu and Bihi. Another friend, Tashi, who went with me to Bihi in late 2016, had just finished a temporary contract working for WV on their cash distribution program. Tashi’s friend, Yeshe, who we met en route, was working for a local NGO contracted by CRS to do recovery and reconstruction work in the area. All trained as trekking guides, these smart young boys had found new opportunities...”
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“...the aftermath. Others might be bypassed by the new trails of development or fall between the cracks of compensation schemes. Disparate factors such as religion, occupation, education, language skills and social networks—even local- ity during an earthquake—can affect this. As scholars and interested observers of Nepal and the Himalaya, we need to pay close attention to these processes and their poten- tially unequal outcomes in the years to come. In high Himalayan places such as northern Gorkha District, the aftershock of disaster is interacting with existing processes of change in multiple, open-ended ways. As many other ‘poor’ countries across the world, in the past years Nepal has been betting heavily on tourism as a route to economic development (GoN 2009, 2010). However, plummeting tourist numbers after the earthquake are now highlighting the vulnerability of tourism as a route to economic development. Over the past decade, the Manaslu circuit in northern Gorkha has been promoted as...”
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“...Eric Werker. 2008. The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters. In Working Paper: Harvard Business School. Dixit, Kunda. 2015. Operation Mountain Express. Nepali Times, 19-25 June. Fujikura, Tatsuro. 2001. Discourses of Awareness: Notes for a Criticism of Development in Nepal. Studies in Nepali History and Society 6 (2): 271-313. GoN. 2009. Tourism Vision 2020. Kathmandu: Government of Nepal, Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation. GoN. 2010. Nepal Trade Integration Strategy 2010. Kathmandu: Ministry of Commerce and Supplies, Government of Nepal. GoN. 2015. Nepal Earthquake 2015: Post Disaster Needs Assesment. Kathmandu: Government of Nepal, National Planning Commission. Guha-Sapir, Debarati, Indhira Santos, and Alexandre Borde. 2013. The economic impacts of natural disasters. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. Hallegatte, Stephane, and Valentin Przyluski. 2010. The Economics of Natural Disasters: Concepts and Methods. In Policy Research Working Paper: The World Bank. HIMALAYA...”
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“...‘disaster and development’debate—Toward a broader understanding of macroeconomic risk and resilience. Climate Risk Management 3: 39-54. Nelson, Andrew. 2015. Classquake: What the global media missed in Nepal earthquake coverage, accessed 8 March. nepal-earthquake-coverage-41063>. Pigg, Stacy Leigh. 1992. Inventing Social Categories through Place: Social Representations and Development in Nepal. Comparative Studies in Society and History 34 (3): 491-513. Pigg, Stacy Leigh. 1993. Unintended Consequences: The Ideological Impact of Development in Nepal. South Asia Bulletin 13 (1 & 2): 45-58. Sander, Catherine, Kimber Haddix McKay, Angjuk Lama, and Pralhad Dhakal. 2015. Pro-Government’ Is Not ‘Pro- Corruption’ in the Aftermath of the Nepal Earthquakes. Anthropology News 56 (6). Simpson, Edward. 2013. The political biography of an earthquake: aftermath and amnesia in Gujarat, India. London: Hurst. Simpson, Edward, and Michele Serafini...”