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Walking sideways with irregular loads Subedi, Prakash

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Carrying irregular construction materials like long logs and corrugated sheets on human backs necessitates walking sideways to negotiate narrow trails, posing danger to the carrier and other trail users. 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
Walking sideways with irregular loads
Creator
Subedi, Prakash
Contributor
Expertise, Labour, and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction (Reconstructing Nepal Project)
Date Issued
2018-04-11
Description
Carrying irregular construction materials like long logs and corrugated sheets on human backs necessitates walking sideways to negotiate narrow trails, posing danger to the carrier and other trail users. 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 materials; Transportation of materials
Geographic Location
Dhading (Nepal : District)
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
2020-07-10
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0392319
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/75094
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Researcher
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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