In the Belly of the River

In the Belly of the River
Author: Amita Baviskar
Publisher: Studies in Social Ecology and
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Why are adivasis fighting the Narmada dam and other development projects in India today? Are adivasis 'ecologically noble savages' living in harmony with nature? What is the tribal relationship with nature today? How do people, whose struggles are the subject of theories of liberation and social change, perceive their own situation? Do their present circumstances allow adivasis to formulate a critique of 'development'?

The Greater Common Good

The Greater Common Good
Author: Arundhati Roy
Publisher: India Book Distributors (Bombay)
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1999
Genre: Dams
ISBN:

Article on Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project.

In Search of Home

In Search of Home
Author: Kaveri Haritas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108834043

Explores new geographies of urban poverty, examining the citizenship, legal status and politics of the rehabilitated poor.

Water Infrastructure

Water Infrastructure
Author: Cecilia Tortajada
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1317432339

Water infrastructure is an essential element in water management. Together with institutions, policies and regulation, it provides basic services to growing populations, especially in developing countries, where much of the growth is taking place. In the Asia-Pacific region, for instance, populations are growing not only in size but also in affluence, straining further the existing infrastructure and demanding urgently the development of a new one. While 79% of total water use in Asia occurs in agriculture, the fastest increases in demand are emanating from industry and from urban areas. This trend is a natural consequence of the fastest industrialization and urbanization process in history. By 2030, more than 55% of Asia’s population will live in urban areas, an increase of 1.1 billion people. Nevertheless, water infrastructure is of concern not only in the global South but also in the North, where much of the drinking-water infrastructure needs upgrading or replacement, a significant undertaking as infrastructure is more than a hundred years old in many cases. The American Water Works Association estimates that changing all of the water pipes in the United States would cost more than USD 1 trillion. In this book, in-depth case studies on water infrastructure challenges and policy solutions are presented from different parts of the world. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Land, Water, Air and Freedom

Land, Water, Air and Freedom
Author: Joan Martínez-Alier
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 799
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1035312778

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This ground-breaking book makes visible the global counter-movement for environmental justice, combining ecological economics and political ecology. Using 500 in-depth empirical analyses from the Atlas of Environmental Justice, Martínez-Alier analyses the commonalities shared by environmental defenders and offenders respectively.

Human Rights, Tribal Movements and Violence

Human Rights, Tribal Movements and Violence
Author: Debasree De
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2023-06-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000905365

This book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and analyzes the infringement of human rights of the tribes in the neo-liberal hegemonic context, due to which the tribes are going through massive upheaval – induced displacement and dispossession from livelihood. They are unable to advance their existentialist interests and fulfil their aspirations, because of which they are taking recourse to extremism and get caught into the battle of state sponsored militia and forces on the one hand, and the extremists on the other. The mechanism of structural violence is embedded in the global capitalism, which has its roots in colonialism and imperialism. Tribal movements of the central-eastern India, inspired by human rights exigencies, are up against this imperial project that violates the trajectories of state-led development initiatives for the reason that these movements have been brutally suppressed by the military forces. This has given a political impetus to the tribes for self-assertion. Similarly, tribal activism in the central-eastern India during the twenty-first century addresses the issue of violence in nature and the infringement of human rights in the context of development-induced displacement and the spread of extremism. The book is based on the collection of data from the field investigations done during the last seven years, and it will definitely fill the vacuum in the history of tribal movements in the neo-liberal era.