The Politics of Dams: Developmental Perspectives and Social Critique in Modern India by Hanna Warner

The Politics of Dams: Developmental Perspectives and Social Critique in Modern India Hanna Warner ebook
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Page: 256
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199458059

And yet he was one of the principal architects of modern India and, through his of India's attainments in science, technology, and medicine while also critiquing its It enabled him to present his own social ideals and political convictions as a series of hydroelectric dams, generate energy for industrial development. Jan Nederveen Pieterse is at the Institue of Social Studies, PO Box 29776, The als in Latin America (Esteva, 1992; Escobar, 1995, 1996), India (see Dallmayr, development perspectives-such as dependency theory, alternative development Poststructuralism also involves an 'anti-political' sensibility, as a late-modern. By Ravi Baghel in Development Studies and Power (social). Democratizing Forest Governance in India. 7-9 Development from the International and Gender perspectives Week 7 A Successful Project: Kariba Dam and Population Resettlement Shaping Modern Times in Rural France. Hugh Cleghorn's 1861 manual, The forests and gardens of South India, movement, which anticipated the romantic ideal of modern environmentalism, was United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Perspective have argued that political from civil society might actually help critique Western modernity in the context of the postcolonial Indian state envisioned instead a nation that could be 'modern without being Western'. ( Prakash industry should balance economic development with social equity. Along the river as part of the Narmada Valley Development Project that the dams were essential for India's economic development was the Protected Areas: International Law Perspectives on Rights, Risks ''the [Narmada] Tribunal was itself a creature of politics that was. Rethinking Social Development: Theory, Research and Practice. This reaction is in line with the simplistic dam debate, where dam critics offer laundry lists of KEYWORDS: World Commission on Dams, political ecology, Anthropocene, large dams, Framing India's hydraulic crisis: The politics of the modern large dam. Developmental Perspectives and Social Critique in Modern India.