books by Amita Baviskar

books by Amita Baviskar

books:

Amita Baviskar

In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (Studies in Social Ecology ...

Amita Baviskar

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Rich ethnography of indigenous politics
A chapter from this book was precribed for a course on development, but I ended up reading it from cover to cover. Through a really engrossing, intimate account of how contemporary adivasis (tribal groups) in India struggle for life and livelihood, the author compels ...

Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia
Susan M. Darlington, Amita Baviskar

Duke University Press, 2003

A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in ...

Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource
Baviskar; Amita

Permanent Black, 2007

Cultural politics, power and inequality, conflict around water. essays by leading scholars. on irrigation, water scarcity,, Gujarat, primarily INdia, but some comparative. a major book on agriculture, irrigation, social science, history, environment.

Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture, and Power

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

This volume studies natural resources through the lens of cultural politics. It emphasizes the role of cultural politics and adds to the existing environmental debates. The essays allow us to think anew the taken-for-granted aspects of natural resources. Each article highlights a different facet of the natural resources debate. The term natural ...