Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia (eBook, PDF)

Epistemologies, Practices and Locales
Redaktion: Baghel, Ravi; Hill, Joseph K. W.; Stepan, Lea

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Produktbeschreibung

The dramatic transformation of our planet by human actions has been heralded as the coming of the new epoch of the Anthropocene. Human relations with water raise some of the most urgent questions in this regard. The starting point of this book is that these changes should not be seen as the result of monolithic actions of an undifferentiated humanity, but as emerging from diverse ways of relating to water in a variety of settings and knowledge systems.

With its large population and rapid demographic and socioeconomic change, Asia provides an ideal context for examining how varied forms of knowledge pertaining to water encounter and intermingle with one another. While it is difficult to carry out comprehensive research on water knowledge in Asia due to its linguistic, political and cultural fragmentation, the topic nevertheless has relevance across boundaries. By using a carefully chosen selection of case studies in a variety of locations and across diverse disciplines, the book demonstrates commonalities and differences in everyday water practices around Asia while challenging both romantic presumptions and Eurocentrism.

Examples presented include class differences in water use in the megacity of Delhi, India; the impact of radiation on water practices in Fukushima, Japan; the role of the King in hydraulic practices in Thailand, and ritual irrigation in Bali, Indonesia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134863334
• Artikelnr.: 48175225

Autorenporträt

Ravi Baghel is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Trier and is affiliated to the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany. Lea Stepan is a researcher at the Cluster of Excellence: "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at Heidelberg University, Germany. Joseph K. W. Hill is an assistant professor (visiting faculty) at the Department of Rural Management, Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Contextualising the Anthropocene: The Cultures, Practices and Politics
of Water Knowledge in Asia Ravi Baghel and Lea Stepan 2. Governing
Fisheries and Marine Radiation in Japan after the Fukushima Nuclear
Accident Leslie Mabon and Midori Kawabe 3. Trans-disciplinary Analysis of
Australian-Indonesian Monsoon Epistemologies and their Implications on
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Sarah Casson 4. An Epistemological
Re-visioning of Hybridity: Water/lands Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt 5. Science as
Friend or Foe? Development Projects Undermining Farmer-managed Irrigation
systems in Asia's High Mountain Valleys Joseph K. W. Hill 6. Competing
Epistemologies of Community-based Groundwater Recharge in Semi-arid North
Rajasthan: Progress and Lessons for Groundwater-dependent Areas Chad
Staddon and Mark Everard 7. Traditional Knowledge and Modernization of
Water: The Story of a Desert Town Jaisalmer Chandrima Mukhopadhyay and
Devika Hemalatha Devi 8. The Hydro-Ecological Self and the Community of
Water: Anupam Mishra and the Epistemological Foundation of Water Traditions
in Rajasthan Daniel Mishori and Ricki Levi 9. Epistemological
Undercurrents: Delhi's Water Crisis and the Role of the Urban Water Poor
Heather O'Leary 10. Being-in-the-water, or Socialisation through
Interactions with water in the Thermal Baths of Taipei Nathalie Boucher
11. In the Eye of the Storm: Water in the Cross-currents of Consumerism,
Science and Tradition in India Neeraj Vedwan 12. Balinese Wet Rice
Agriculture in Transition: Water Knowledge between a Sentient Ecology and
the Pursuit of Development Lea Stepan 13. Water Flows Uphill to Power:
Hydraulic Development Discourse in Thailand and Power Relations Surrounding
Kingship and Statemaking David J.H. Blake 14. Waterscapes in Transition:
Past and Present Reshaping of Sacred Water Places in Banaras Vera
Lazzaretti 15. Resettling a River Goddess: Aspects of Local culture,
Development and National Environmental Movements in Conflicting Discourses
on Dhari Devi Temple and Srinagar Dam Project in Uttarakhand, India
Frances A. Niebuhr