Representations and practices of home in the context of the 2005 earthquake and reconstruction process in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir

Schild, Pascale (2012): Representations and practices of home in the context of the 2005 earthquake and reconstruction process in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir. In: Luig, Ute (ed.) : Negotiating disasters: Politics, representations, meanings. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. pp. 205-234

Abstract

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Azad Kashmir's capital Muzaffarabad, this chapter studies the interactions between families and the state's housing reconsntruction programme after the 2005 earthquake. It shows how people re-constructed the home not only materially but also socially and politically.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: earthquake, reconstruction, home, house, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
• Faculties: Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Ethnology
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology
• Place of Publication: Frankfurt am Main
• Language: English