Fluid City, Solid State: Urban Environmental Territory in a State of Emergency, Kathmandu

• Published in: City & society Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 105 - 129
• Main Author: RADEMACHER, ANNE M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.06.2008
• Subjects: Emergencies; emergency; environment; Kathmandu; Nepal; state; Territoriality; Urban Areas

This paper addresses the relationship between contemporary territorial processes of statemaking and the fluidity associated with globalizing cities. Focused on the remaking of urban environmental space during a period of political emergency in Kathmandu, the paper examines how state power was sustai...