Water, democracy and neoliberalism in India : the power to reform / Vicky Walters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walters, Vicky, author.

Series:

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 70.

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water resources development--India.

Water resources development.

Democracy--India.

Democracy.

Neoliberalism--India.

Neoliberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Getting (in)to good governance

3. Karnataka : the state of a determined path

4. Demonstrating development

5. Can we have a civil-consumer slum, please.

6. Of operational significance

7. Conclusion : the power to reform.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-04092-3

0-203-78721-8

9780203787212

OCLC:

849246506