The geography of things that may become memories: The 2001 earthquake in Kachchh-Gujarat and the politics of rehabilitation in the prememorial era

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 566-585

  Simpson, Edward ^a   Corbridge, Stuart ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Gujarat; Memory; Nationalism; Regionalism

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; NATIONALISM; NATURAL DISASTER; POLITICS; REGIONALISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; GUJARAT; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33748253053     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00706.x     Document Type: Article

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