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Geo-Logics of Power: Disaster Capitalism, Himalayan Materialities, and the Geopolitical Economy of Reconstruction in Post-Earthquake Nepal.
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Geopolitics . Sep-Oct2020, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p838-866. 29p. 2 Maps. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- The 2015 earthquakes in Nepal killed more than 9,000 people, displaced millions of people and deeply affected the economy. The earthquakes and reconstructions processes also transformed Nepal into a complex terrain of geoeconomic accumulation and geopolitical manoeuvring, including major international capital flows, the promulgation of a new constitution, an economic blockade by India and the expansion of trade corridors with China. Building on critiques of 'disaster capitalism', we propose and mobilize the concept of 'geo-logics of power' to draw further attention to the materialities of geopolitical and geoeconomic processes shaping reconstruction in post-earthquake Nepal. Focusing on two trans-Himalayan corridors connecting Nepal and China, we argue that the Nepal experienced a particular form of disaster capitalism: one in which the geo-logics of power – including trans-Himalayan discourses, practices, and materialities – came to shape political and economic transformations of a country long portrayed as a 'buffer' state between Indian and China. More broadly, we suggest that geo-logics of power result from a combination of geopolitical and geoeconomic power dynamics informed by geological formations and associated socio-natural processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14650045
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Geopolitics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144989420
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2018.1533818