1st Edition
Water, Democracy and Neoliberalism in India The Power to Reform
By Vicky Walters
Copyright 2013
224 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Vicky Walters was Lecturer in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
