Stories from the Margins: Exploring Gendered Memories of the Leh Flash Floods in 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32444/IJSW.2018.79.1.65-82 Through a narrative ethnographic study in the district of Leh in 2013, three years after the disaster (flash floods), the article argues that post-disaster memories are contoured by gender, religion and spatiality. This study explores counter-memories which puts aside the populist reading of the disaster and gives insights into the ‘Missing voices’ of the disaster affected material practices that inform and sustain the disaster experi- ences; world-view and life of those who have been ignored in the mainstream disaster discourse; and issues of poverty, exposure to risk and new kinds of vulnerability that arise in a post-disaster context.