Abandoned construction site

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Abandoned construction site Suji, Manoj

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This house owner has abandoned building half way as the funds have run out. The small grants distributed by the government and lack of planning for the reconstruction after the 2015 earthquake has resulted in such abandoned construction sites. 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	Abandoned construction site
Creator	Suji, Manoj
Contributor	Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction (Reconstructing Nepal Project)
Date Issued	2018-05-05
Description	This house owner has abandoned building half way as the funds have run out. The small grants distributed by the government and lack of planning for the reconstruction after the 2015 earthquake has resulted in such abandoned construction sites. 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	Building codes; 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	2020-07-08
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0392143
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74931
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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