{"id":5617,"date":"2019-06-06T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpol.qub.ac.uk\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2019-06-06T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:03:15","slug":"kathmandu-locals-fighting-injustice-to-save-citys-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/kathmandu-locals-fighting-injustice-to-save-citys-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathmandu locals are fighting \u2018injustice\u2019 to save their city\u2019s heritage, years after deadly earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four years ago, vast swaths of Nepal\u2019s capital, Kathmandu, turned to rubble in a matter of minutes. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Nepal-earthquake-of-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">magnitude 7.8 earthquake<\/a>, which wrought destruction on the city, was followed by hundreds of aftershocks. Just 17 days later, another magnitude 7.3 temblor felled more buildings and structures, which had stood through the first quake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The human toll was catastrophic: across Nepal,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/disaster-relief-news-stories\/2015-nepal-earthquake-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9,000 people died<\/a>&nbsp;and hundreds of thousands more were left destitute, facing extreme poverty. The damage to Nepalese culture was also significant: hundreds of historic buildings, shrines and statues across the capital were reduced to dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four years and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/nepal\/nepal-earthquake-humanitarian-response-april-september-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hundreds of millions of dollars<\/a>&nbsp;in donations later, Nepal is slowly recovering. Inevitably, though, a catastrophe of this scale has caused issues for the nation\u2019s resource-starved government. Researchers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/nepal-earthquake-reconstruction-wont-succeed-until-the-vulnerability-of-survivors-is-addressed-87335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have highlighted<\/a>&nbsp;that political squabbling and a lack of local or regional governance have slowed reconstruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To continue reading, <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/kathmandu-locals-are-fighting-injustice-to-save-their-citys-heritage-years-after-deadly-earthquake-115938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">please click here.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article originally appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/kathmandu-locals-are-fighting-injustice-to-save-their-citys-heritage-years-after-deadly-earthquake-115938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/unitednationsdevelopmentprogramme\/17275643751\/in\/photolist-sjAc1K-skp4et-si9zP3-s2CrCB-o5NZqT-dz8tiM-dzA9hZ-sn9WXF-dwSGMp-dwEKdM-2eE94sR-dxvk2z-s6uEnB-sjCG56-s34AEL-dzGins-o3V2t8-dxYN1s-s3boaa-dxWTGF-dx1huF-soTiQ8-soVqHM-dy3ihV-smCiUy-dxWUKM-dwY5sy-nLHKhM-dz8pYt-dwLfMj-dyzGZx-dzdTQo-rvJkPV-spcQAw-s33kXE-dyUhBX-skE6S9-dxY39F-hiLHQk-dzGiks-dRYL45-rtz9rf-dzARjn-sqzs8i-rsndCb-dzA3c4-smZkKw-dwMiAD-o3JL76-dx6Mg1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">featured&nbsp;image<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;<em>has been used courtesy of a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Creative Commons license.&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Urmi Sengupta looks at how the rebuilding of Kathmandu in Nepal has been progressing, following the devastating earthquakes in 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2550,"featured_media":5641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[824,825,826],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues","tag-earthquake","tag-kathmandu","tag-nepal"],"mb":[],"acf":{"authors":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":null,"value":null,"field":{"ID":9774,"key":"field_66d0cbf58f930","label":"Authors","name":"authors","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"relationship","value":null,"menu_order":1,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":9772,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"post_type":["authors"],"post_status":["publish"],"taxonomy":"","filters":["search"],"return_format":"id","min":0,"max":10,"allow_in_bindings":0,"elements":["featured_image"],"bidirectional":0,"bidirectional_target":[],"_name":"authors","_valid":1}},"description":{"simple_value_formatted":"","value_formatted":"","value":"","field":{"ID":9776,"key":"field_66d2183027749","label":"Description","name":"description","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"wysiwyg","value":null,"menu_order":3,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":9772,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"default_value":"","allow_in_bindings":0,"tabs":"all","toolbar":"basic","media_upload":0,"delay":1,"_name":"description","_valid":1}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2019\/06\/Kathmandu.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"mfb_rest_fields":["title","jetpack_featured_media_url","jetpack_sharing_enabled","amp_enabled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}