Governing Water in India : Inequality, Reform, and the State / Leela Fernandes, University of Washington Press.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernandes, Leela, author.

Contributor:

University of Washington Libraries, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--India.

Equality.

Economics--India.

Economics.

Water-supply--Government policy--India.

Water-supply.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

University of Washington Press 2022

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Fernandes Leela : 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).Leela Fernandes is a political scientist who has written widely about inequality and change. Her numerous books and articles include India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform and Transnational Feminism in the United States: Knowledge, Ethics, Power. She has taught for three decades at the University of Washington, University of Michigan, Rutgers University, and Oberlin College. At Michigan she served as director of the Center for South Asian Studies and was a senior fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows, while at Washington she served as director of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Historical Formation of India’s Water Bureaucracy

Chapter 2 The Regulatory Water State in Postliberalization India

Chapter 3 The Political Economy of Federalism and the Politics of Interstate Water Negotiations

Chapter 4 Regulatory Extraction, Inequality, and the Water Bureaucracy in Chennai

Chapter 5 State, Class, and the Agency of Bureaucrats

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780295750446

0295750448

OCLC:

1290245845

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access