[PDF] Water Democracy And Neoliberalism In India eBook

Author : Vicky Walters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
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ISBN : 9781138575370

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Since the early 1990s, the achievement of �good governance� has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance. Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water governance reforms in south India (Karnataka), the book examines the two propositions that underlie the current good governance debate. The first refers to a claim that good governance is both democratic and pro-market. The second to the claim that commercially-oriented water services, whether private or public, are good for poor and marginalised citizens. The book analyses these propositions as they intersect on three levels: policy, practice (process) and outcome. It argues that a number of tensions and contradictions exist within and between what the discourse promises, the everyday practises of how good governance policies are implemented and in the outcomes of such. It reveals the networks of power and the complexity of local reforms and their relation to global discourses as well as the motivations and every day practises of those who currently possess the power to reform. The book is of interest to academics in the fields of Development Studies, Asian Studies and Comparative Politics.

Author : Vicky Walters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135040923

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Since the early 1990s, the achievement of ‘good governance’ has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance. Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water governance reforms in south India (Karnataka), the book examines the two propositions that underlie the current good governance debate. The first refers to a claim that good governance is both democratic and pro-market. The second to the claim that commercially-oriented water services, whether private or public, are good for poor and marginalised citizens. The book analyses these propositions as they intersect on three levels: policy, practice (process) and outcome. It argues that a number of tensions and contradictions exist within and between what the discourse promises, the everyday practises of how good governance policies are implemented and in the outcomes of such. It reveals the networks of power and the complexity of local reforms and their relation to global discourses as well as the motivations and every day practises of those who currently possess the power to reform. The book is of interest to academics in the fields of Development Studies, Asian Studies and Comparative Politics.

Author : Lyla Mehta
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788125028697

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The book studies the relationship between large dams and water scarcity in Kutch. It argues that water scarcity is not merely natural, but is embedded in the social and power relations shaping water access, use and practices. Scarcity is portrayed as natural rather than human induced and this naturalisation of scarcity is beneficial to those who are powerful. This is a significant book in the light of the growing water crisis in India, and the world.

Author : Deepti Acharya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000442551

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This book explores the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of Right to Water and analyzes its values in the context of water policy frameworks of the union governments in India. It uses a qualitative approach and combines critical hermeneutics with critical content analysis to introduce a new water policy framework. The volume maps the complex argumentative narrations which have emerged and evolved in the idea of Right to Water and traces the various contours and the nature of water policy texts in independent India. The book argues that the idea of Right to Water has emerged, evolved and is being argued through theoretical arguments and is shaped with the help of institutional arrangements developed at the international, regional, and national levels. Finally, the book underlines that India’s national water policies drafted respectively in 1987, 2002 and 2012, are ideal but are not embracing the values and elements of Right to Water. The volume will be of critical importance to scholars and researchers of public policy, environment, especially water policy, law, and South Asian studies.

Author : Vandana Asthana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135219184

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The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose pro-privatization water policy reforms. These claims and counter claims are seen as an impending war over water resources, one that includes many different players with many different agendas located across a wide variety of sites whose actions and interactions shape policy production in India. This book is the first to assess the dynamics of water policy processes in India. Using the case study of Delhi’s water situation, this book analyses emergent dynamics of policy process in India in general and, more specifically, in the post-economic reform era. Taking as its starting point a critique of linear version of policy making, the author explains both how and why particular types of knowledge, practices and values get established in policy as well as the complex interplay of knowledge, power and agency in water policy processes. Water Policy Processes in India covers a critical gap in the literature by analyzing how governments in practice make policies that greatly affect the welfare of their people; the process through which policies are developed and implemented; investigating the aims and motives behind policies; and identifying the potential areas of intervention in order to improve the policy process in both its development and implementation stages.

Author : Jennifer Charlotte Dorothea Mateer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2017
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Water scarcity and water contamination are persistent problems facing large numbers of people in India. In order to combat scarcity, the Indian Federal government designated 2016 to be the Year of Water Conservation. In order to prepare for the success of this initiative, different management strategies and awareness campaigns began in 2015. Critics have generally responded favourably to these shifts in water management because conservation is considered a benevolent and even environmentally-friendly, or "green" process that can successfully combat water scarcity. However, these initiatives often change the ways in which people access water based upon new governing mentalities. The governing mentality most strongly underpinning these initiatives is based on a neoliberal rationality, which is generally admonished by academics and activists due to the production of uneven socio-economic landscapes under neoliberal economics. Similarly, in an effort to combat water contamination, governing authorities have initiated programs and policies to ensure that safe water is provided for citizens. However, this too has often been influenced by neoliberal governing mentalities. In order to analyze these shifts, this dissertation takes a closer look at the narratives of water conservation, water scarcity, and water contamination using a political ecology framework in three states in North Western India: Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Haryana. The following manuscript style thesis consists of five independent papers, plus an introduction and conclusion, linked thematically through the discussion and analyses of the shifting nature of the hydro-social cycle under the pressure of various neoliberal reforms and processes initiated by federal and state governing authorities in North Western India. Having independent papers lends itself to a more nuanced discussion of the ways in which neoliberal water management strategies are lived-out in various communities. Neoliberalism is not an overarching hegemonic project or phenomenon, and as such the discourses of neoliberalism have had different consequences for different communities and populations. As such, this thesis highlights the ways in which the shifting hydro-social cycle has changed gender-related activities of water collection, the ways in which contamination is a form of slow violence, the ways in which defacto public-private partnerships operate in water scarce urban centres, and the ways in which discourses of conservation can be misleading and even manufactured.

Author : Tulishree Pradhan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2019
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The countries around the world which follow constitutional democracy are fully committed to the Rule of law principle, and to the concept of economic, political, social and also environmental justice. This commitment which is enshrined in the Constitution of India preamble raises the question as to how Rule of Law, which is used as a mechanism for the Government will be effective in providing social justice particularly environmental justice to the people. This paper analyzes struggles for access to clean and sufficient water since these struggles engage both social justice and environmental regulation and arise in legal systems throughout the world. The paper mainly focuses on the prevailing situation in India. India has an unequal distribution of water. Some States receive heavy rainfall and some faces drought. In this kind of situation, there has to be proper water management because half of the country's economy is dependent on the agricultural sector for which water is essential and also due to increasing urbanization the need for clean drinking water has increased much fold in the recent times. If there is no proper water management then firstly the economy of the country will be adversely affected along with the health of the people. In order to have proper management of water, Rule of Law plays a significant role. If proper rules and guidelines are framed then the authorities playing a role in the management has an obligation to fulfil their duties and will also be held liable in case of mismanagement. India is a democratic country which chooses its own government by virtue of adult suffrage or voting. In order to get maximum votes from the people, political parties frame certain policies and make promises to people keeping in view their interest and as well as the targeted people's interest from which they can get votes. Water has always been a prime issue among the States. Political parties take the advantage of the practice of water politics or also known as hydroponics. For example, if a state has some kind of problem with its neighbouring states it will create problems with regard to water sharing from the river or might oppose the construction of the dam. Water management, Rule of law and Water politics are all interlinked with each other. If one fails then the others will also fail and it can create havoc in the society. The paper in depth with case study first defines the role of water management, Rule of law and water politics in India and goes on further to establish the relationship between them and how they are closely linked with each other. In order to achieve a more just society, to ensure the integrity of environmental resources from which water is drawn and to secure safe and sufficient water for all, will continue to face opposition and in this situation the rule of law offers the promise, if conditions of regulatory harmony and institutional unity are met, that our rivers will run clean, our cisterns will stay full, and a turn of our taps will fill our glasses to the brim.

Author : Sita Venkateswar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811004544

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This volume brings together multidisciplinary, situated and nuanced analyses of contingent issues framing a rapidly changing India in the 21st century. It moves beyond the ready dichotomies that are often extended to understand India as a series of contrasts and offers new insights into the complex realities of India today, thereby enabling us to anticipate the decades to come. The editors focus on three major themes, each discussed in a section: The first section, Framing the Macro-Economic Environment, defines the framework for interrogating globalisation and socio-economic changes in India over the last few decades of the 20th century spiraling into India in the 21st century. The next section, Food Security and Natural Resources, highlights critical considerations involved in feeding a burgeoning population. The discussions pose important questions in relation to the resilience of both people and planet confronting increasingly unpredictable climate-induced scenarios. The final section, Development, Activism and Changing Technologies, discusses some of the social challenges of contemporary India through the lens of inequalities and emergent activisms. The section concludes with an elaboration of the potential and promise of changing technologies and new social media to build an informed and active citizenry across existing social divides.

Author : Nandini Gooptu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134511868

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The promotion of an enterprise culture and entrepreneurship in India in recent decades has had far-reaching implications beyond the economy, and transformed social and cultural attitudes and conduct. This book brings together pioneering research on the nature of India’s enterprise culture, covering a range of different themes: workplace, education, religion, trade, films, media, youth identity, gender relations, class formation and urban politics. Based on extensive empirical and ethnographic research by the contributors, the book shows the myriad manifestations of enterprise culture and the making of the aspiring, enterprising-self in public culture, social practice, and personal lives, ranging from attempts to construct hegemonic ideas in public discourse, to appropriation by individuals and groups with unintended consequences, to forms of contested and contradictory expression. It discusses what is ‘new’ about enterprise culture and how it relates to pre-existing ideas, and goes on to look at the processes and mechanisms through which enterprise culture is becoming entrenched, as well as how it affects different classes and communities. The book highlights the social and political implications of enterprise culture and how it recasts family and interpersonal relationships as well as personal and collective identity. Illuminating one of the most important aspects of India’s current economic and social transformation, this book is of interest to students and scholars of Asian Business, Sociology, Anthropology, Development Studies and Media and Cultural Studies.

Author : Loraine Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131793797X

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State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong growth accompanied by extensive sectoral and spatial restructuring. This book argues that in this reformed institutional context, where both state spaces and economic geographies are being rescaled, subnational states play an increasingly critical role in coordinating socioeconomic activities. The core thesis that the book defends is that the reform process has profoundly reconfigured the Indian state’s rapport with its territory at all spatial scales, and these processes of state spatial rescaling are crucial for comprehending emerging patterns of economic governance and growth. It demonstrates that the outcomes of India’s new policy regime are not only the product of impersonal market forces, but that they are also the result of endogenous political strategies, acting in conjunction with the territorial reorganisation of economic activities at various scales, ranging from local to global. Extensive empirical case material, primarily from field-based research, is used to support these theoretical assertions. Scholars of political economy, political and economic geography, industrial development, development studies and Asian Studies will find this a stimulating and innovative contribution to the study of the political economy in the developing countries.