Contesting Place in a Post-colonial Space
Contexts

(Re)colonizing Tradition

A Pedestrian Guide to a "Traditional" City

Welcome to Bhaktapur

[1] The Tea Stall at Guhepukhu

[2] Nava Durga Chitra Mandir

[3] Khauma Square

[4] Tourist Motor Park

[5] Indrani Pitha

[6]Lasku Dhwakha Gate

[7]Char Dham

[8]Cafe de Temple

[9]Batsala Temple

[10] Batsala Temple

[11] City Hall

[12] The Procession Route

[13] Pujari Math

[14] The Peacock Restaurant

[15] Sewage Collection Ponds

[16] Bhairavanath Temple

Situationists

To tease out the radical potentional of just wandering, I will model my guide on the work of the Situationists. From 1957 to 1972, the artistic and political movement known as the Situationist Internationalist worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the bourgeoisie late capitalist worldıs "cadaverous rigidity" (Colle 1948, 21-23). The Situationists have left a constellation of concepts: psychogeography, diversion, situations, and unitary urbanism. Yet probably the most useful for urban studies is the derive (drift).





Maps


Mandala Map

Tourist Map

Government
Map


Pedestrian
Tour Map


Bhaktapur
Durbar Square


Tacapa Map


Satellite
Photograph



Kathmandu
Valley


Goddesses
Key | Bibliography | Maps

İ 2001 Gregory Price Grieve , Site design by GDL Historical Laboratories. .