New one-room house
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Title:
New one-room house
Creator:
Suji, Manoj
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cIRcle, University of British Columbia Library
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English

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During the reconstruction period following the 2015 earthquake, many people built one-room houses in order to access government grants, which were distributed upon reaching certain construction milestones. These one-room houses obviously do not meet the needs of the families, and will also further contribute to their debt when they do eventually build a house more suited to their needs. There were several other factors leading to the abundance of this type of house however, including an overwhelming emphasis on building houses based on the templates designed in the centrally located Kathmandu, failure of the government to inform people of new engineering practices, and insufficient grants to build a proper house. Taken during the 1st phase of fieldwork conducted by the research team based at Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal, as part of the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, ‘Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction’. See project details at https://elmnr.arts.ubc.ca/. ( en )
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Date issued: 2018-05-03
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Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction (Reconstructing Nepal Project). University of British Columbia
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This image is part of a collection produced by the collaborative research partnership, ‘Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction’, which was funded by SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 890-2016-0011 from 2017-2021. Additional support was provided by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, the Faculty of Arts, the School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, and the Department of Anthropology at UBC. Sara Shneiderman (Associate Professor, Anthropology and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, UBC) served as Principal Investigator, along with Co-Investigators Philippe Le Billon (Professor, Geography and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, UBC) and Katharine Rankin (Professor, Geography and Planning, University of Toronto). The research team based at Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal, included Jeevan Baniya, Bina Limbu, Prakash Chandra Subedi, and Manoj Suji, who worked in partnership with Nabin Rawal of the Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University. The photographic collection was curated by Khem Shreesh of Social Science Baha in collaboration with Emily Homolka of UBC’s School of Information, with additional support from Emily Amburgey and Jonathan Eaton of UBC’s Department of Anthropology. Full information about the project is available at https://elmnr.arts.ubc.ca/
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This image and metadata have been made available by the University of British Columbia Library (Vancouver)
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0392119
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Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74916

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