I suggest one way to articulate How Bhaktapur¹s lived social space has been re-colonized is to write a radical pedestrian guide to the city. A pedestrian guide would not claim to be an abstract universal representation. Instead, the genre would tend to be directed to a second person, "you." Its object is neither a universal truth signified through passive construction of abstract writing or the subjective consciousness of the novel¹s first person. Instead a radical guidebook is practical knowledge. It does not claim to represent the landscape, nor the thoughts of the author, but rather it is a textual map that leads you the reader through the landscape.

As such, I am not arguing a guidebook is objective, or even unbiased. The potential of the guidebook is just the opposite. Rather than floating above the space, metaphysically untethered to the landscape, the guidebook implants the reader into the point of view of a particular temporality . And like any map, a guidebook not only (mis)-represents "reality," but also play a part in its construction.