Fluid city, solid state: Urban environmental territory in a state of emergency, Kathmandu

City and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-129

  Rademacher, Anne M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; STATE ROLE; TERRITORY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBAN AREA; VIOLENCE;

ASIA; BAGMATI; EURASIA; KATHMANDU; NEPAL; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 47249147565     PISSN: 08930465     EISSN: 1548744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-744X.2008.00008.x     Document Type: Article

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