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Resilience and disaster risk reduction: reclassifying diversity and national identity in post-earthquake Nepal.

Authors :
Watson, Iain
Source :
Third World Quarterly; Feb2017, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p483-504, 22p, 2 Graphs, 1 Map
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

This paper discusses disaster resilience in the context of disaster risk reduction. It focuses on how the Nepali state, through disaster risk reduction and resilience strategies, is reinventing the ‘diversity’ question in Nepal. Disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction are being used to create a specific form of national identity that paradoxically both segregates and excludes ethnic and traditional communities through a variety of strategies of paternalism and inclusivity. The emerging state-led use of exploiting and capturing ethnic and indigenous ‘traditional knowledge’ is part of the government’s disaster risk strategy. This is sanctioned by multilateral bodies, which further legitimates subtle practices of exclusion through state-led monitoring. This has wider implications for contested narratives on Nepali democracy and federalism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
01436597
Volume :
38
Issue :
2
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Third World Quarterly
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
121063615
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2016.1159913