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“...homes, and livelihoods—far beyond their access to electricity. Whereas professionals use models to project the structural integrity of dams and potential earnings from electricity sales, the people living in close proximity to hydropower projects have no way to calculate and manage the ‘risks’ that these interventions will mean on the ground. Socially Organized Denial The slow government response to the 2015 earthquake in Nepal threatens to exacerbate social inequality, alter com- munity structures, and generate new patterns of economic and social conflict. How is it that this major catastrophic event has failed to cause a strong response from the hydro- power industry? What can explain the disjuncture between lived experience and public concern? What can we say about the prevailing opinions about seismicity that existed prior to the 2015 earthquake and continue to neutralize or muffle a stronger outcry for stricter regulations on hydropower development? To discuss this issue, we engage what...”
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“...development and downplaying the inherent risks makes ‘sense.’ Risk and Uncertainty In his essay, ‘The Cultural Nature of Risk,’ Asa Boholm rhetorically asks what social anthropologists can contrib- ute to risk research. His answer is: context (2003:174). He roots his conclusion in a discussion of Mary Douglas and Ulrich Beck, who differ in how they regard the need for an analytic distinction between traditional and modern models of risk. For Douglas and other cultural theorists, Boholm writes, “explanations in terms of‘risk’ in modern society are understood to fulfil the same social function as explanations in terms of destiny, supernatural agency, or broken taboo in traditional societies” (2003:165). In other words, for cultural theorists, risk, like taboos, is subjec- tively chosen and culturally constructed to exert social control over a population, thus eliminating the need to analytically separate the concept of ‘risk’ from the concept of ‘taboo.’ Beck, by contrast, posits risk as...”
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“...to gathering investment funds” (Tsing 2000:118). When you trace out the string of people who desire hydropower to arrive as a business, who want certain returns, who want discussions of risk circumscribed to the topic of guaranteeing profit, you can understand how they could be convinced to deny serious credence to possible earthquakes. It doesn’t fit the narrative. The private hydropower narrative sells images of illu- minated rural homes, children studying late into the evenings under lamps, social programs sprouting up from fully-filled government coffers, and urban homes stocked with modern appliances, surging to life, at any time of day, with the press of a button. Nature must be ‘made into loot,’ and Nepal is told it’s not water but money that pours down its rivers, unrealized and wasted. This conjuring trick has its roots in notions of frontier culture, asking participants to see a landscape that doesn’t yet exist, the same way that the US gold rush invited white immigrants to envision...”
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“...withstand a major earthquake. On the other hand, civil society and anti-dam activists cannot marshal an opposition to dam construction in seismic zones beyond supposition. That is, having little evidence for their position, they can only warn about the danger of dam breach as a possibility rather than a likelihood. In Nepal’s energy-starved, devel- opment-seeking context, theirs is indeed a weak position. Through local employment, electrification, improved infrastructural access, and possible local social devel- opment, hydropower projects may open up exciting potentialities for local communities. Recent project devel- opment agreements, such as the one for the Upper Karnali Hydroelectric Project, have the availability of shares for affected people written into the terms of the contract. In some parts of Nepal, share options in hydro projects have attracted high levels of interest from local small-scale investors (ShareSansar 2016). But, communities around these proposed dam sites will also have...”
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“...Press. Pangeni, Rudra. 2016. Damaged Hydropower Plants Yet to Bounce Back. Republica, April 18. (accessed on April 29, 2017). ------. 2015. Earthquake Damages Over Dozen Hydropower Projects. Republica, May 5. (accessed on April 29, 2017). Pigg, Stacy Leigh. 1992. Investing Social Categories Through Place: Social Representations and Development in Nepal. Comparative Studies in Society and History 34 (03): 491-513. ------. 1993. Unintended Consequences: The Ideological Impact of Development in Nepal. South Asia Bulletin 13 (1&2): 45-58. Pokhrel, Rajan. 2015. At Least 56 Settlements to be Relocated. The Himalayan Times, June 30. (accessed on April 29, 2017). Rai, Om Astha. 2015. Back to the Dark Age. Nepali Times...”
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“...Kunreuther and Erwann Michel- Kerjan. 2015. From Nepal Quake, Lessons for the U.S. Philadelphia Inquirer, April 27. (accessed on April 29, 2017). World Bank. 1964. The Economy of Nepal. Washington DC: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/ International Development Association. Zerubavel, Eviatar. 1997. Social Mindscapes: an Invitation to Cognitive Sociology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ------. 2002. The Elephant in the Room: Notes on the Social Organization of Denial. In Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition, edited by Karen Cerulo, 21-27. New York and London: Routledge. HIMALAYA Volume37,Number2 25...”