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Rivers, Dams and Landscapes: Engaging with the Modern on Contested Grounds
This chapter discusses one of the most disputed topics in Indian environmental history, namely, the construction of large-scale hydroelectric dams in the context of post-independent developmental politics. It deals with large dams as part of twentieth-century planning in India and the ‘ideological designs’, on which their implementation was based against alternative visions and an emerging opposition. It seems reasonable to assume that infrastructural artefacts such as large dams, apart from their role and function on a national agenda, are an attempt to allot resources and counter the unpredictability of nature through engineering efforts. With regard to social resistance and alternative development models, existing links between this implementation and modernity theory are discussed for the Indian context.
Rivers, Dams and Landscapes: Engaging with the Modern on Contested Grounds
This chapter discusses one of the most disputed topics in Indian environmental history, namely, the construction of large-scale hydroelectric dams in the context of post-independent developmental politics. It deals with large dams as part of twentieth-century planning in India and the ‘ideological designs’, on which their implementation was based against alternative visions and an emerging opposition. It seems reasonable to assume that infrastructural artefacts such as large dams, apart from their role and function on a national agenda, are an attempt to allot resources and counter the unpredictability of nature through engineering efforts. With regard to social resistance and alternative development models, existing links between this implementation and modernity theory are discussed for the Indian context.
Rivers, Dams and Landscapes: Engaging with the Modern on Contested Grounds
Advs Asian Human-Environmental Res.
Nüsser, Marcus (editor) / Werner, Hanna (author)
2013-10-08
23 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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