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Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu (2019)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2019). Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu. The Journal of Asian studies, 78(3), 549-576. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819000172

On 25 April 2015 central Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake which killed over 9000 people and displaced 2.8 million. The image of the Dharahara, a nineteenth century minaret which collapsed during the quake, quickly became for many Nepali... Read More about Revealing What is Dear: the post-earthquake iconisation of the Dharahara, Kathmandu.

Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres' (2019)
Journal Article
Hutt, M. (2019). Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'. South East Asia Research, 27(1), 21-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2019.1587925

This piece reflects on the decline of Area Studies in the Euro- American academy. Although it is sometimes presented and discussed as if it were a discipline, the paper argues that it may be easier to chart an afterlife for Area Studies if we conceiv... Read More about Area Studies and the importance of 'somewheres'.