Anne Rademacher

Department of Social and Cultural Analysis

New York University

Publications

 

In progress. “Trading National for Natural: Making ‘Asia’ through Regional Conservation.”

 

In progress. “Housing in the Urban Age: Inequality and Aspiration in Mumbai.” With Nikhil Anand.

 

Forthcoming. Reigning the River: Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu. Duke University Press.

 

In Press. “Restoration and Revival: Remembering the Bagmati Civilization,” In Guneratne, Arjun (ed). Symbolic Ecologies: Nature and Society in the Himalaya. Oxford.

 

2009. “When is Housing an Environmental Problem? Reforming Informality in Kathmandu.” Current Anthropology, 50 (4) , 513-534. PDF

 

2009. “Marking Remembrance: Nation and Ecology in Two Riverbank Pillars in Kathmandu.” In Walkowitz, Daniel and Lisa Maya Knauer (eds). Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation. Duke University Press.

 

2008. “Fluid City, Solid State: Urban Environmental Territory in a State of Emergency.” City and Society 20(1). PDF

 

2008. “The Rural in the Urban: Human Settlements, River Territories and a Contingent State in Kathmandu.” In Social Sciences in a Multicultural World: Proceedings of the International Conference Held on 11-13 December 2006, Kathmandu. SASON/NCCR (Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research): Kathmandu. Pp. 367-374.

 

2008. “The Concept of Human Agency in Contemporary Conservation and Development Discourses,” with Michael R. Dove, Andrew Mathews, Jonathan Padwe, and Keely Maxwell. In McCay, Bonnie, Susan Lees, and Paige West (eds). Against the Grain: The Vayda Tradition in Human Ecology and Ecological Anthropology. Rowan and Littlefield.

 

2007. “Farewell to the Bagmati Civilization: Losing Riverscape and Nation in Kathmandu.” National Identities 9:1.

 

2007. “A ‘Chaos’ Ecology: Democratization and Urban Environmental Decline in Kathmandu.” In Lawoti, Mahendra (ed). Contentious Politics and Democratization in Nepal: The Maoist Insurgency, Identity Politics, and Social Mobilization since 1990. Delhi: Sage Publications.

 

2007. “Revisiting the Concept of Western Versus Non-Western Environmental Knowledge,” with Michael R. Dove, Marina Campos, Andrew Mathews, Laura Yoder, Steve Rhee, and Daniel Smith. In Paul Sillitoe (ed). Local Science Versus Global Science: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development. Berghahn Books.

 

2005. Review of Rankin, Katharine. “The Cultural Politics of Markets: Economic Liberalization and Social Change in Nepal.” American Anthropologist 107 (3).

 

2005. “Assessing the Impacts of Conflict on Conservation and Livelihoods in Nepal.” Concept paper. Kathmandu: IUCN-Nepal.

2005. “The Growth of Capacity in IUCN in Asia.” with Members of the IUCN in Asia Management Team. Report submitted to the International Center for Development Policy Management on behalf of the IUCN Asia Regional Program.

2005. “Environmental Education and Land-based Pollution Assessment in the Indus Delta.” Concept paper. Karachi: IUCN-Pakistan.

2004. “Improving Livelihoods through Integrated Coastal Zone Management in
Pakistan.” Project proposal. Karachi: IUCN-Pakistan.

2004. “Rural-to-Urban Migration and Displacement in Pakistan: Understanding the Implications for Sustainable Environmental Management.” Concept paper. Karachi: IUCN-Pakistan.

 

2004. “Anticipating the Impacts of Globalization on Environmental Conservation in Pakistan.” Concept paper. Karachi: IUCN-Pakistan.

 

2002. “Retelling Worlds of Poverty: Reflections on Transforming Participatory Research for a Global Narrative,” with Raj Patel. In Brock, Karen, and Rosemary McGee (eds). Knowing Poverty: Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy. London: Earthscan.