Public taps and private connections : the production of caste distinction and common sense in a Rajasthan drinking water supply project

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Description :
This article examines public taps and private connections through the production of caste distinction and common sense in a Rajasthan drinking water supply project. To do so, it brings together geographic research on neoliberal water governance and caste processes in modern rural India to illuminate how neoliberal subjectivities deepened in the post-project phase. It shows the ways that caste norms, village water governance and state power converged to produce ‘new’ ways of thinking about water access and payment that undermined the social goals and the physical infrastructure of the project.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Transactions - Institute of British Geographers (1965), issn : 0020-2754, 2014, vol. 39, n°. 3, p. 373-386, nombre de pages : 14

Date :
2014

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, London, Institute of British Geographers