Mark Liechty

What Went Right (eBook, PDF)

Sustainability Versus Dependence in Nepal''s Hydropower Development

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Through the study of Nepal, shows a successful alternative to dominant energy infrastructure development paradigms typically imposed on developing countries.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009276245
• Artikelnr.: 70909607

Autorenporträt

Mark Liechty is Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a South Asianist by training with a research specialization in the modern culture and history of Nepal. He is the author of Far Out: Countercultural Seekers and the Tourist Encounter in Nepal, which received the 2017 Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature. His work at UIC focuses on world history, South Asian colonial history, culture theory, youth culture, and cultures of the body. He is the co-editor, with Michael Hutt and Stephanie Lotter, of Epicentre to Aftermath: Rebuilding and Remembering in the Wake of Nepal's Earthquakes, forthcoming with the Press in 2021.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. A corporate vision: Business as development philosophy
2. Butwal Technical Institute, Tinau, and the origins of the Butwal Power Company
3. Andhi Khola
4. Jhimruk
5. The 'Great Upheaval': Khimti and the limits of the Hoftun hydropower vision
6. Melamchi and the rush to privatization
7. Privatization, the long haul
8. The new BPC: Cultures in conflict
9. Conclusion: From seed, to plant, to seed
Bibliography, Index.