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Papers by Deepa Joshi
Search results 1-5 of 27. Listing sorted by date — Restricted to IIED's own pubs? yes. This ... more Search results 1-5 of 27. Listing sorted by date — Restricted to IIED's own pubs? yes. This search: country=China. New search: ...
International Journal of the Commons
Our sincere thanks to Frank van Laerhoven for his support to get this special issue published and... more Our sincere thanks to Frank van Laerhoven for his support to get this special issue published and help throughout the editorial process. We are indebted to all the contributing authors for embarking on this exciting journey with us and to the reviewers who contributed on the way with critical and constructive comments.
Academic research and media tend to emphasize the strong opposition to hydropower development in ... more Academic research and media tend to emphasize the strong opposition to hydropower development in Sikkim, India, and position this as resistance to an environmentally-destructive, trans-local development, particularly by the culturally-rooted, ethnic minority Bhutia and Lepcha communities. There are several accounts of contesta-tions of hydropower development projects in India's Eastern Himalayan States – signifying robust and predictable indigenous people-place connections. Why then, was the implementation of the largest, Teesta Stage III Hydro Electric Project, located in Chungthang Gram Panchayat Unit in North Sikkim, in the heartland of the Bhutia-Lepcha region, not contested? In unraveling this anomaly, our focus is to understand how people-place connections are shaped and differentially experienced. Our findings are that hydropower development has elicited diverse responses locally, ranging from fierce contestation to indifference, to enthusiastic acceptance. The complexity and malleability of " place " and people's " sense of place " provide evidence that indigeneity does not always indicate resistance to large-scale project interventions. In ethnically and socio-politically fractured communities like Chungthang, trans-local developments can reinforce ethno-social divides and disparities, and realign traditional place-based ethno-centric solidarities along new politically-motivated lines. We argue that linear, one-dimensional views of local social coalescence around place belie more complex relations, which evolve dynamically in diverse socio-cultural and politico-economic contexts.
Introduced over a decade ago and considered largely successful by irrigation professionals, Irrig... more Introduced over a decade ago and considered largely successful by irrigation professionals, Irrigation Management Transfer and Participatory Irrigation Management (IMT/PIM) policies were recently reviewed and seen to have resulted in more cases of "failure" than "success". Primary research on two IMT/PIM projects in Nepal, which were among the few "successes" in the assessment supporting a "failed" PIM, shows how such policy-driven evaluations, when defining success, overlook incongruities between policies, institutions, and the evolving dynamics around class, caste, ethnicity, and gender. Without exploring the dynamics of practice, the process of "cultivating" success and/or failure in evaluations provides little insight on how irrigation management works on the ground.
This chapter argues that the current approach of the domestic water supply sector to gender is ba... more This chapter argues that the current approach of the domestic water supply sector to gender is based on a misunderstanding of the concept of gender, which results, at best, in a failure to address exclusion and, at worst, in a reproduction of existing practices of exclusion. This has negative effects on the very people current water policies aim to assist-including the poorest women. Gender theory stresses that gender is related to. but distinctly different from sex (Oakley 1972).
Abstract: Pavement dwellers are often invisible to government, development partners and researche... more Abstract: Pavement dwellers are often invisible to government, development partners and researchers, even though they comprise 2 per cent of the urban population and their entire lives are on full display to passers-by every day. Shelter and security, convenience and privacy are considered essential for all, yet even these are lacking for the poorest of the urban poor.
The Gomti River Pollution Control Project at Lucknow (GRPCPL) Phase 1, funded by ODA (UK), is wor... more The Gomti River Pollution Control Project at Lucknow (GRPCPL) Phase 1, funded by ODA (UK), is working to develop service masterplans for solid waste, sanitation/sewerage and drainage services for the city of Lucknow (the capital of Uttar Pradesh, India), through an integrated planning process to improve the health and well-being of the people of Lucknow and the condition of the River Gomti. The project forms part of the Ganga Action Plan Phase 2 which is promoted by the National Rivers Conservation Directorate in Delhi.
Abstract “Don't teach us what is sanitation and hygiene.” This quote from Maqbul, a middle-aged m... more Abstract “Don't teach us what is sanitation and hygiene.” This quote from Maqbul, a middle-aged male resident in Modher Bosti, a slum in Dhaka city, summed up the frustration of many people living in urban poverty to ongoing sanitation and hygiene programmes.
Recent analyses indicate a historic loss of equity in the shift in India's drinking water policy ... more Recent analyses indicate a historic loss of equity in the shift in India's drinking water policy from a welfarebased, free supply mode to a market-oriented demandled approach. However, a complex entwining of caste and gender has consistently defined water allocation and access among users and entrenched fractures in the structure and culture of the policy-implementing and regulatory institutions.
A History of Water, Jan 1, 2006
1 The term Vedic philosophy refers to ethical thought presented in Vedic literature written durin... more 1 The term Vedic philosophy refers to ethical thought presented in Vedic literature written during the period 2500-600 BC. There is much conflict on the exact duration of the period. The literature consisted of two major bodies of literature, the Vedas and the later Brahmanas.
Gender, water and development, Jan 1, 2005
Analysing social relations in contemporary India. Dube (1996) identified that the caste system pr... more Analysing social relations in contemporary India. Dube (1996) identified that the caste system prevails, its boundaries and hierarchies articulated by gender. The structure on which this social system is based was defined in Vedic philosophical texts about four thousand years ago1 and re-interpreted and made more rigid over the following two millennia. The interplay of water, caste and gender in Hindu society, in which water both is polluted by the touch of the impure and purifies those who are so polluted, is evident in the ...
Water supply projects Sociology Human services Regional planning Civil engineering Sociology Regi... more Water supply projects Sociology Human services Regional planning Civil engineering Sociology Regional planning Civil engineering.
WEDC CONFERENCE, Jan 1, 2001
During the last decade, great claims have been made for both the theory and the practice of women... more During the last decade, great claims have been made for both the theory and the practice of women's increased participation in the management of domestic water resources. This is said to have contributed both to increasing project efficiency and effectiveness as well as to empowering women ). An extensive analysis of policy and project literature reveals that the domestic water sector interprets the following forms of women's participation in water projects at the community level as contributing to women's empowerment as well as to project efficiency:
Alternative Water Forum, University of Bradford, Jan 1, 2003
Search results 1-5 of 27. Listing sorted by date — Restricted to IIED's own pubs? yes. This ... more Search results 1-5 of 27. Listing sorted by date — Restricted to IIED's own pubs? yes. This search: country=China. New search: ...
International Journal of the Commons
Our sincere thanks to Frank van Laerhoven for his support to get this special issue published and... more Our sincere thanks to Frank van Laerhoven for his support to get this special issue published and help throughout the editorial process. We are indebted to all the contributing authors for embarking on this exciting journey with us and to the reviewers who contributed on the way with critical and constructive comments.
Academic research and media tend to emphasize the strong opposition to hydropower development in ... more Academic research and media tend to emphasize the strong opposition to hydropower development in Sikkim, India, and position this as resistance to an environmentally-destructive, trans-local development, particularly by the culturally-rooted, ethnic minority Bhutia and Lepcha communities. There are several accounts of contesta-tions of hydropower development projects in India's Eastern Himalayan States – signifying robust and predictable indigenous people-place connections. Why then, was the implementation of the largest, Teesta Stage III Hydro Electric Project, located in Chungthang Gram Panchayat Unit in North Sikkim, in the heartland of the Bhutia-Lepcha region, not contested? In unraveling this anomaly, our focus is to understand how people-place connections are shaped and differentially experienced. Our findings are that hydropower development has elicited diverse responses locally, ranging from fierce contestation to indifference, to enthusiastic acceptance. The complexity and malleability of " place " and people's " sense of place " provide evidence that indigeneity does not always indicate resistance to large-scale project interventions. In ethnically and socio-politically fractured communities like Chungthang, trans-local developments can reinforce ethno-social divides and disparities, and realign traditional place-based ethno-centric solidarities along new politically-motivated lines. We argue that linear, one-dimensional views of local social coalescence around place belie more complex relations, which evolve dynamically in diverse socio-cultural and politico-economic contexts.
Introduced over a decade ago and considered largely successful by irrigation professionals, Irrig... more Introduced over a decade ago and considered largely successful by irrigation professionals, Irrigation Management Transfer and Participatory Irrigation Management (IMT/PIM) policies were recently reviewed and seen to have resulted in more cases of "failure" than "success". Primary research on two IMT/PIM projects in Nepal, which were among the few "successes" in the assessment supporting a "failed" PIM, shows how such policy-driven evaluations, when defining success, overlook incongruities between policies, institutions, and the evolving dynamics around class, caste, ethnicity, and gender. Without exploring the dynamics of practice, the process of "cultivating" success and/or failure in evaluations provides little insight on how irrigation management works on the ground.
This chapter argues that the current approach of the domestic water supply sector to gender is ba... more This chapter argues that the current approach of the domestic water supply sector to gender is based on a misunderstanding of the concept of gender, which results, at best, in a failure to address exclusion and, at worst, in a reproduction of existing practices of exclusion. This has negative effects on the very people current water policies aim to assist-including the poorest women. Gender theory stresses that gender is related to. but distinctly different from sex (Oakley 1972).
Abstract: Pavement dwellers are often invisible to government, development partners and researche... more Abstract: Pavement dwellers are often invisible to government, development partners and researchers, even though they comprise 2 per cent of the urban population and their entire lives are on full display to passers-by every day. Shelter and security, convenience and privacy are considered essential for all, yet even these are lacking for the poorest of the urban poor.
The Gomti River Pollution Control Project at Lucknow (GRPCPL) Phase 1, funded by ODA (UK), is wor... more The Gomti River Pollution Control Project at Lucknow (GRPCPL) Phase 1, funded by ODA (UK), is working to develop service masterplans for solid waste, sanitation/sewerage and drainage services for the city of Lucknow (the capital of Uttar Pradesh, India), through an integrated planning process to improve the health and well-being of the people of Lucknow and the condition of the River Gomti. The project forms part of the Ganga Action Plan Phase 2 which is promoted by the National Rivers Conservation Directorate in Delhi.
Abstract “Don't teach us what is sanitation and hygiene.” This quote from Maqbul, a middle-aged m... more Abstract “Don't teach us what is sanitation and hygiene.” This quote from Maqbul, a middle-aged male resident in Modher Bosti, a slum in Dhaka city, summed up the frustration of many people living in urban poverty to ongoing sanitation and hygiene programmes.
Recent analyses indicate a historic loss of equity in the shift in India's drinking water policy ... more Recent analyses indicate a historic loss of equity in the shift in India's drinking water policy from a welfarebased, free supply mode to a market-oriented demandled approach. However, a complex entwining of caste and gender has consistently defined water allocation and access among users and entrenched fractures in the structure and culture of the policy-implementing and regulatory institutions.
A History of Water, Jan 1, 2006
1 The term Vedic philosophy refers to ethical thought presented in Vedic literature written durin... more 1 The term Vedic philosophy refers to ethical thought presented in Vedic literature written during the period 2500-600 BC. There is much conflict on the exact duration of the period. The literature consisted of two major bodies of literature, the Vedas and the later Brahmanas.
Gender, water and development, Jan 1, 2005
Analysing social relations in contemporary India. Dube (1996) identified that the caste system pr... more Analysing social relations in contemporary India. Dube (1996) identified that the caste system prevails, its boundaries and hierarchies articulated by gender. The structure on which this social system is based was defined in Vedic philosophical texts about four thousand years ago1 and re-interpreted and made more rigid over the following two millennia. The interplay of water, caste and gender in Hindu society, in which water both is polluted by the touch of the impure and purifies those who are so polluted, is evident in the ...
Water supply projects Sociology Human services Regional planning Civil engineering Sociology Regi... more Water supply projects Sociology Human services Regional planning Civil engineering Sociology Regional planning Civil engineering.
WEDC CONFERENCE, Jan 1, 2001
During the last decade, great claims have been made for both the theory and the practice of women... more During the last decade, great claims have been made for both the theory and the practice of women's increased participation in the management of domestic water resources. This is said to have contributed both to increasing project efficiency and effectiveness as well as to empowering women ). An extensive analysis of policy and project literature reveals that the domestic water sector interprets the following forms of women's participation in water projects at the community level as contributing to women's empowerment as well as to project efficiency:
Alternative Water Forum, University of Bradford, Jan 1, 2003