Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2016/04 -2019/03
Author : MINAMI MAKITO; Honda Kazushige; Tachibana Kenichi; Watanabe Kazuyuki; Furukawa Fukachi; Kano Katsuhiko; Kharel Dipesh; Niwa Mitsuru
Each of the fifteen scholars had carried out their research separately at a village or an area, which covered fourteen districts of Nepal. Based on their field work, they reported vernacular process of recovery from the 2015 Nepal Gorkha Earthquake. Comparison of various cases revealed the diversity and disparity in the recovery processes, making it possible to discuss the factors and backgrounds of the existing disparity. One of the major factors in the regional disparities was whether foreign aid reached the villages or not. The households and villages that have people who are connected to advanced countries could recover sooner. Nepali societies were reconfigured after the earthquake based on egalitarianism and mutual help in a kind of“Disaster Utopia”for the short period. In the long run, however, the reconfiguration progressed based on the vector widening regional and household disparities, which have existed since before the earthquake.