The Anti-politics Machine in India: State, Decentralization, and Participatory Watershed Development

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Anthem Press, 2011 - Nature - 238 pages

This book assesses the validity of 'anti-politics' critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the new context provided by decentralization of state functioning where keeping politics out of development (development as the anti-politics machine) can no longer be taken for granted. The case of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory is used to illustrate the tensions between prescriptive development policy and a growing political democracy.

 

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Contents

Chapter
1
Chapter
25
Chapter Three
51
Chapter Four
85
Chapter Five
119
Chapter
155
Conclusion
195
References
219
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1994 guidelines action activities actors administrative agencies agriculture Andhra Pradesh anti-politics machine approach argued backward castes Bagli behaviour bodies bureaucratic chapter colonial common lands conflict Congress consensus consent constituted construction context Corbridge Corbridge and Harriss created crops dalits decentralization decision-making development programme Dewas Dewas district discourse of depoliticization dominant economic elites engagement farmers ghaat-neeche groups hectares Hindu idea implementation India individual initiatives institutions interests intervention irrigation issues Kaviraj Khatis Kishangarh Kurnool Kurnool district KWO’s labour landholders landless large number leaders Lilapuram Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Malligundu micro-watershed mobilization MORD Naidu Neelpura neoliberal NGOs OBCs participation participatory particular party planning politics project officials Rajputs Reddy region relationships responsible role sarpanch selection Singh social strategy structures technocratic tribal Veldurthi village wage wage labour watershed committees watershed development watershed programme watershed project Zilla Panchayat

About the author (2011)

Vasudha Chhotray is a lecturer in Development Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. She obtained her PhD in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has worked on the governance and politics of natural resources for over ten years in India and in South Africa. She has published in several academic journals, including lsquo;World Developmentrsquo;, lsquo;Journal for Development Studiesrsquo; and lsquo;Development and Changersquo;, and has co-authored a book lsquo;Governance Theory: A cross-disciplinary approachrsquo; (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). She has also conducted several studies for the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and the Ford Foundation. Her research has been extended to issues of vulnerability and recovery following disasters, the politics of relief and reconstruction, and global environmental justice.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Anti-politics Machine in India: State, Decentralization, and Participatory Watershed Development
Anthem South Asian Studies
AuthorVasudha Chhotray
Editionillustrated
PublisherAnthem Press, 2011
ISBN0857287672, 9780857287670
Length238 pages
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Nature / Natural Resources
Political Science / American Government / National
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Public Policy / Regional Planning
Political Science / World / Asian
Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries
  
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