Making a 'hydropower nation': Subjectivity, mobility, and work in the hydroscapes of Nepal

Himalaya

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 111-121

  Lord, Austin ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Himalayan water resources; Hydropower development; Labor; Migration studies; Nepal; Resource frontiers; Visual ethnography

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; ENERGY RESOURCE; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; LABOR MIGRATION; WATER RESOURCE;

HIMALAYAS; NEPAL;

EID: 84923276368     PISSN: 19352212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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