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Format: 1 online resource (xix, 311 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781009091299 (ebook)

Content: This book explores why Nepal's hydropower sector is one of its few development success stories. Unlike most other 'developing' countries, in Nepal local firms design and build hydropower facilities using Nepali engineers, builders and labor. Nepal has largely avoided the trap whereby most poor countries are forced to accept energy infrastructure projects that are foreign designed, funded and built - typically resulting in debt, dependency and unsustainability. It traces the struggle between two competing development paradigms: one that emphasizes gradual national human capacity building - at the expense of speed and efficiency - and another that emphasizes rapid, large-scale infrastructure building - at the risk of unsustainability and dependency. At stake is whether what passes for 'development' benefits the countries in which it occurs, or the banks and investors that finance capital-intensive projects. What Went Right brings a vision for sustainable development into vigorous conversation with development strategies that have proven to be less productive.

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Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781316514900

Language: English

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009091299

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Format: 1 online resource (xvii, 464 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781108991636 (ebook)

Content: Epicentre to Aftermath makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the growing body of disaster studies literature by providing an analysis of a disaster aftermath that is steeped in the political and cultural complexities of its social and historical context. Drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines, the book highlights the political, historical, cultural, artistic, emotional, temporal, embodied and material dynamics at play in the earthquake aftermath. Crucially, it shows that the experience and meaning of a disaster are not given or inevitable, but are the outcome of situated human agency. The book suggests a whole new epistemology of disaster consequences and their meanings, and dramatically expands the field of knowledge relevant to understanding disasters and their outcomes.

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Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781108834056

Language: English

Keywords: Konferenzschrift

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108991636

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Format: xviii, 292 p. : ill., maps : 24 cm

ISBN: 0691095922 , 0-691-09593-0

Note: MAB0014.001: PIK B 160-04-0200 , MAB0036: m , MAB0039: z , Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-289) and index

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Format: xiv, 387 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9780226428949 , 9780226428802

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , The golden age. Building the road to Kathmandu: steps in the West's journey to the East -- Making Nepal a destination: the cultural politics of early tourism -- Mountains, monsters, and monks: Nepal in the 1950s Western popular imagination -- The key to an oriental world: Boris Lissanevitch, Kathmandu's Royal Hotel, and -- The "golden age" of tourism in Nepal -- Jung Bahadur Coapsingha: John Coapman, hunting, and the origins of adventure tourism in Nepal -- Hippie Nepal. The great rucksack revolution: Western youth on the road to Kathmandu -- "Kathmandu or bust": countercultural longing and the rise of Freak Street -- "Something big and glorious and magnificently insane": hippie Kathmandu -- Hippie ko pala (the age of hippies) -- Nepal's discovery of tourism and the end of the hippie era -- Adventure tourism. Adventure Nepal: trekking, thamel, and the new tourism -- Imbibing Eastern wisdom: Nepal as dharma destination.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226429137

Language: English

Keywords: Nepal ; Tourismus ; Hippie ; Rucksacktourismus ; Bergsteigen ; Bergwandern ; USA ; Nepalbild

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Format: XVIII, 402 S.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 978-9937-8194-7-3 , 978-9937-8194-6-6

Language: English

Keywords: Mittelstand

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Format: XVIII, 292 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 0-691-09593-0 , 0-691-09592-2

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Mittelstand ; Verbraucherverhalten

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Format: 1 online resource : , 2 maps. 10 halftones.

ISBN: 9780691221748

Content: Suitably Modern traces the growth of a new middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new sociocultural space in one of the world's "least developed countries." Since Nepal's "opening" in the 1950s, a new urban population of bureaucrats, service personnel, small business owners, and others have worked to make a space between Kathmandu's old (and still privileged) elites and its large (and growing) urban poor. Mark Liechty looks at the cultural practices of this new middle class, examining such phenomena as cinema and video viewing, popular music, film magazines, local fashion systems, and advertising. He explores three interactive and mutually constitutive ethnographic terrains: a burgeoning local consumer culture, a growing mass-mediated popular imagination, and a recently emerging youth culture. He shows how an array of local cultural narratives--stories of honor, value, prestige, and piety--flow in and around global narratives of "progress," modernity, and consumer fulfillment. Urban Nepalis simultaneously adopt and critique these narrative strands, braiding them into local middle-class cultural life. Building on both Marxian and Weberian understandings of class, this study moves beyond them to describe the lived experience of "middle classness"--how class is actually produced and reproduced in everyday practice. It considers how people speak and act themselves into cultural existence, carving out real and conceptual spaces in which to produce class culture.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , PART I: INTRODUCTION -- , 1. Middle-Class Construction -- , 2. Modern Nepali History and the Rise of the Middle Class -- , PART II: CLASS AND CONSUMERISM -- , 3. Middle-Class Consciousness: "Hanging between the High and the Low" -- , 4. Consumer Culture in Kathmandu: "Playing with Your Brain" -- , 5. "Doing Fashion" in Kathmandu: Class and the Consumer Public -- , PART III: MEDIA CONSUMPTION IN KATHMANDU -- , 6. The Social Practice of Cinema and Video Viewing in Kathmandu -- , 7. Media Cultures: The Global in the Local -- , PART IV: YOUTH AND THE EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY -- , 8. Constructing the Modern Youth -- , 9. Modernity, Time, and Place: Youth Culture in Kathmandu -- , PART V: CONCLUSION -- , 10. The Space of Class: Toward an Anthropology of Middle-Class Cultural Practice -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780691221748

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691221748

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691221748

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Format: 1 online resource (402 pages)

ISBN: 9780226429137 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Liechty, Mark, 1960- Far out : countercultural seekers and the tourist encounter in Nepal. Chicago, [Illinois] : University of Chicago Press, c2017 ISBN 9780226428802

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 0-226-42913-X

Content: Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last untouched place and a repository of redemptive power and wisdom. Beatniks, hippie seekers, spiritual tourists, mountain climbers-diverse groups of people have traveled there over the years, searching for their own personal Shangri-La. In Far Out, Mark Liechty traces the Western fantasies that captured the imagination of tourists in the decades after World War II, asking how the idea of Nepal shaped the everyday cross-cultural interactions that it made possible. Emerging from centuries of political isolation but eager to engage the world, Nepalis struggled to make sense of the hordes of exotic, enthusiastic foreigners. They quickly embraced the phenomenon, however, and harnessed it to their own ends by building tourists' fantasies into their national image and crafting Nepal as a premier tourist destination. Liechty describes three distinct phases: the postwar era, when the country provided a Raj-like throwback experience for rich Americans; Nepal's emergence as an exotic outpost of hippie counterculture in the 1960s; and its rebranding into a hip adventure destination, which began in the 1970s and continues today. He shows how Western projections of Nepal as an isolated place inspired creative enterprises and, paradoxically, allowed locals to participate in the global economy. Based on twenty-five years of research, Far Out blends ethnographic analysis, a lifelong passion for Nepal, and a touch of humor to produce the first comprehensive history of what tourists looked for-and found-on the road to Kathmandu.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2017. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , PART ONE. The Golden Age -- , PART TWO. Hippie Nepal -- , PART THREE. Adventure Tourism -- , References -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-42894-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-42880-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.7208/9780226429137