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020 _a9788178241760
040 _aMAIN
041 _aEnglish
082 _a363.610954
_bBAV/WAT
100 _aBaviskar, Amita (Ed.)
245 _aWater scapes :
_bthe cultural politics of a natural resources
_cedited by Amita Baviskar.
260 _aRanikhet :
_bPermanent black,
_c2007.
300 _a374 p.
440 _a( Nature, culture, conservation series).
500 _aTable of contents: PART I: The politics of creating and regulating scarcity Chapter 1. Small is Deadly, Big is Wasteful The Impact of Large-scale Industrial Systems in Western India Chapter 2. The Politics of Water Scarcity in Gujarat Chapter 3. Yours, Mine, and Ours Managing Water Resources in the Mexican-US Borderlands Chapter 4. The Local Politics of Groundwater in North Gujarat PART II: Imagining communities Chapter 5. The Public Sphere and Water Provisioning Discontinuities in the Present Chapter 6. 'Our Village Puts Aside Politics for Development' Fluid Communities and Stable Claims Chapter 7. 'Asleep Then but Awake Now' Contesting Irrigated Land Along the Gambia River Chapter 8. Water and Well-being Explaining the Gap in Understandings of Water PART III: State projects and waterscapes Chapter 9. Ecology, Uncertainty and Memory Imagining a Pre-colonial Irrigated Landscape in South India Chapter 10. From Calamity to Resource Flood Control and the Politics of Natural Limits Chapter 11. The Dream Machine The Model Development Project and the Remaking of the State Chapter 12. Fluvial Intimacies
650 _aWater supply services.
942 _cBK
999 _c1754
_d1754