Authors Nutan Maurya, Independent Karthick Radhakrishnan, TERI University Kelly Alley, Auburn Uni... more Authors Nutan Maurya, Independent Karthick Radhakrishnan, TERI University Kelly Alley, Auburn University Sukanya Das, TERI University Jennifer Barr, Emory University
The notion of the infrastructure gap is widely articulated in development studies to denote lacun... more The notion of the infrastructure gap is widely articulated in development studies to denote lacunae and areas of need in infrastructure functioning and connectivity across regions and nations. Sanitation infrastructure is one of the clearest areas in which to examine this gap. To close the gap, government and multilateral agencies are espousing citywide inclusive sanitation. This means comprehensive sanitation services for all through a combination of centralized and decentralized projects and a variety of techniques and services. However, this diversity of projects, techniques, and services will create additional challenges for infrastructure connectivity and functionality that need to be addressed through empirical research. We explore the gaps in wastewater and fecal sludge management infrastructure in India by approaching the problem from the activities and perspectives of three nonstate leaders and their associates. We argue that the notion of infrastructure disarray is an appropriate orienting idea as it points to an emerging field of experimentation and innovative activity while also showing how conditions of dysfunction and disconnection are sustained and reproduced. Taking disarray as a condition of infrastructure confusion among overlapping and disconnected segments of the sewage services chain, the cases show how nonstate actors and their communities are confronting disarray, reproducing these conditions of disarray, or grappling with ways to overcome this disarray.
Designating rights for nature is a potentially powerful way to open up the dialogue on nature con... more Designating rights for nature is a potentially powerful way to open up the dialogue on nature conservation around the world and provide enforcement power for an ecocentric approach. Experiments using a rights-based framework have combined in-country perspectives, worldviews, and practices with legal justifications giving rights to nature. This paper looks at a fusion of legal traditions, religious worldviews, and practices of environmental protection and advocacy in the context of India. It takes two specific legal cases in India and examines the recent high-profile rulings designating the rivers Ganga, Yamuna, and their tributaries and glaciers as juristic persons. Although the rulings were stayed a few months after their issuance, they are an interesting bending of the boundaries of nature, person, and deity that produce Ganga and Yamuna as vulnerable prototypes. This paper uses interview data focusing on these cases and document and archival data to ask whether legal intervention...
Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1996
Page 1. Urban Institutions At The Crossroads: Judicial Activism And Pollution Prevention In Kanpu... more Page 1. Urban Institutions At The Crossroads: Judicial Activism And Pollution Prevention In Kanpur Kelly D. Alley Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Auburn University ABSTRACT: Centralized planning ...
... theless effective in making knowledge about hazardous waste publicly accessible in Sumter Cou... more ... theless effective in making knowledge about hazardous waste publicly accessible in Sumter County and in maintaining a voice of opposition in public meetings. Chemical Waste Management, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), and business and ...
... Conflict of Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985); Ronald Inden, Imagining I... more ... Conflict of Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985); Ronald Inden, Imagining India (Oxford ... a compilation of essays on caste that also include attention to Muslim society ... take on a problem orientation across cultural anthropology, studies of the Indian diaspora follow ...
... Anthropology and Environment. Rappaport Prize Session. Rebecca Zarger Editor. Article first p... more ... Anthropology and Environment. Rappaport Prize Session. Rebecca Zarger Editor. Article first published online: 7 JUL 2009. DOI: 10.1111/an.2004.45.5.41.1. ... Get PDF (180K). More content like this. Find more content: like this article. Find more content written by: Rebecca Zarger. ...
Authors Nutan Maurya, Independent Karthick Radhakrishnan, TERI University Kelly Alley, Auburn Uni... more Authors Nutan Maurya, Independent Karthick Radhakrishnan, TERI University Kelly Alley, Auburn University Sukanya Das, TERI University Jennifer Barr, Emory University
The notion of the infrastructure gap is widely articulated in development studies to denote lacun... more The notion of the infrastructure gap is widely articulated in development studies to denote lacunae and areas of need in infrastructure functioning and connectivity across regions and nations. Sanitation infrastructure is one of the clearest areas in which to examine this gap. To close the gap, government and multilateral agencies are espousing citywide inclusive sanitation. This means comprehensive sanitation services for all through a combination of centralized and decentralized projects and a variety of techniques and services. However, this diversity of projects, techniques, and services will create additional challenges for infrastructure connectivity and functionality that need to be addressed through empirical research. We explore the gaps in wastewater and fecal sludge management infrastructure in India by approaching the problem from the activities and perspectives of three nonstate leaders and their associates. We argue that the notion of infrastructure disarray is an appropriate orienting idea as it points to an emerging field of experimentation and innovative activity while also showing how conditions of dysfunction and disconnection are sustained and reproduced. Taking disarray as a condition of infrastructure confusion among overlapping and disconnected segments of the sewage services chain, the cases show how nonstate actors and their communities are confronting disarray, reproducing these conditions of disarray, or grappling with ways to overcome this disarray.
Designating rights for nature is a potentially powerful way to open up the dialogue on nature con... more Designating rights for nature is a potentially powerful way to open up the dialogue on nature conservation around the world and provide enforcement power for an ecocentric approach. Experiments using a rights-based framework have combined in-country perspectives, worldviews, and practices with legal justifications giving rights to nature. This paper looks at a fusion of legal traditions, religious worldviews, and practices of environmental protection and advocacy in the context of India. It takes two specific legal cases in India and examines the recent high-profile rulings designating the rivers Ganga, Yamuna, and their tributaries and glaciers as juristic persons. Although the rulings were stayed a few months after their issuance, they are an interesting bending of the boundaries of nature, person, and deity that produce Ganga and Yamuna as vulnerable prototypes. This paper uses interview data focusing on these cases and document and archival data to ask whether legal intervention...
Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1996
Page 1. Urban Institutions At The Crossroads: Judicial Activism And Pollution Prevention In Kanpu... more Page 1. Urban Institutions At The Crossroads: Judicial Activism And Pollution Prevention In Kanpur Kelly D. Alley Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Auburn University ABSTRACT: Centralized planning ...
... theless effective in making knowledge about hazardous waste publicly accessible in Sumter Cou... more ... theless effective in making knowledge about hazardous waste publicly accessible in Sumter County and in maintaining a voice of opposition in public meetings. Chemical Waste Management, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), and business and ...
... Conflict of Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985); Ronald Inden, Imagining I... more ... Conflict of Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985); Ronald Inden, Imagining India (Oxford ... a compilation of essays on caste that also include attention to Muslim society ... take on a problem orientation across cultural anthropology, studies of the Indian diaspora follow ...
... Anthropology and Environment. Rappaport Prize Session. Rebecca Zarger Editor. Article first p... more ... Anthropology and Environment. Rappaport Prize Session. Rebecca Zarger Editor. Article first published online: 7 JUL 2009. DOI: 10.1111/an.2004.45.5.41.1. ... Get PDF (180K). More content like this. Find more content: like this article. Find more content written by: Rebecca Zarger. ...
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