Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State - Tapa dura

Fernandes, Leela

 
9780295750422: Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform, and the State
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ISBN 10: 0295750421 ISBN 13: 9780295750422
Editorial: University of Washington Press, 2022

Sinopsis

Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to regulate use. State policies and institutions influenced by global models of reform produce and magnify socio-economic injustice in this "water bureaucracy."

Drawing on historical records, an analysis of post-liberalization developments, and fieldwork in the city of Chennai, Leela Fernandes traces the configuration of colonial historical legacies, developmental-state policies, and economic reforms that strain water resources and intensify inequality. While reforms of water governance promote privatization and decentralization, they strengthen the state centralized control over water through city-based development models. Understanding the political economy of water thus illuminates the consequent failures of the state within countries of the Global South.

Open access edition DOI 10.6069/9780295750446

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Acerca del autor

Leela Fernandes is Director and Stanley D. Golub Endowed Chair at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Transnational Feminism in the United States: Knowledge, Power and Ethics (New York University Press, 2013), India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), and Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997).

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Editorial
University of Washington Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0295750421
ISBN 13 
9780295750422
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
298
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