Roofing slates by a temporary shelter

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Roofing slates by a temporary shelter Limbu, Bina

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Slates are still popular as roofing material in rural parts as long as they are easily procured, but they are being replaced by corrugated sheets when procuring them is possible due to convenience and rapid installation. However, their use is prohibited under the new building codes so they cannot be used as roofing materials but are instead supplied to urban centres where they are popular as paving stones. 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/.

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Title	Roofing slates by a temporary shelter
Creator	Limbu, Bina
Contributor	Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction (Reconstructing Nepal Project)
Date Issued	2018-05-14
Description	Slates are still popular as roofing material in rural parts as long as they are easily procured, but they are being replaced by corrugated sheets when procuring them is possible due to convenience and rapid installation. However, their use is prohibited under the new building codes so they cannot be used as roofing materials but are instead supplied to urban centres where they are popular as paving stones. 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/.
Subject	Materials; Building materials
Geographic Location	Sindhu Pālchok (Nepal)
Type	Still Image
Language	zxx
Notes	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/
Date Available	2020-07-07
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0392076
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74870
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Researcher
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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