1st Edition

Water Policy Processes in India Discourses of Power and Resistance

By Vandana Asthana Copyright 2009
202 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose pro-privatization water policy reforms. These claims and counter claims are seen as an impending war over water... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Changing The Frame: Repositioning Policy  3. The Process Of Economic Liberalization And Private Sector Participation  4. Water In The Liberalization Process  5. Situating Delhi In The Water Reform Project  6. Mainstreaming Policy: Discourses Of Power  7. Creating Spaces For Change: Collective Action On The Water Reform Project  8. Understanding The Water Policy Process

Biography

Vandana Asthana teaches international politics in the Department of Government at Eastern Washington University, USA. Her previous publications include: Politics of the Environment; India’s Foreign Policy and Sub Continental policy; Theory of International Politics and two co-edited volumes Security in South Asia: Trends and Directions and Advances in Environmental Biopollution. She is the Founder member of the IC Centre for Governance, New Delhi, and the Founder Secretary and Member Advisory Panel of "Eco-Friends", an NGO working on water issues in India. She has served as consultant and completed a project for the Government of India on the Water Security and is a Board member of the South Asian Studies Association.