The Rule of Water

Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India

David Mosse

380 pages, parution le 09/04/2003

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Résumé

This work is based on long-term anthropological fieldwork, oral histories and detailed archival work to explore the changing ecology, political significance and cultural meaning of water in south India.

Readership: Policy-makers, post-graduate students and researchers in South Asian studies, history and anthropology, geography, political studies and development studies, and those interested in environmental issues and community-based resource management.

Contents

Introduction: The Social Ecology and Ideology of Water
A Tank-Irrigated Landscape: The View from Afar
Water and Power in a Warrior State: Landscape and Memory
Water and Rule in Two Zamindaris: Colonial Governance and
Political Failure
Water and Society in a Red-Soil Village
Water and Society in a Black-Soil Village
Ecological Zones and the Culture of Collective Action
Irrigation Bureaucracy and the Colonial Construction of
Community Management
From State Bureaucracy to People's Participation: A New
Moral Economy for Water?
Conclusions

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

L'auteur - David Mosse

Dr David Mosse, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	David Mosse
Parution	09/04/2003
Nb. de pages	380
Format	14,5 x 22,2
Couverture	Relié
Poids	512g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780195661378