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Kutch, a semi-arid district in the state of Gujarat in western India, is known for its water scarcity. Its panacea is made out to be the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), a controversial dam under construction on the Narmada River in western India. The paper analyses the social, caste and power...
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The International HIV/AIDS Alliance supports 'linking organizations' in various developing countries which, in turn, support local NGOs to carry out HIV/AIDS activities with local communities. Experience and accumulated evidence has shown that information, education and communication (IEC) alone...
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The past thirty years in Latin America have produced tremendous transformations of the state's role in society, both in the scope of its activities and the extent of its presence. Sometimes this has led to the state's unprecedented expansion into the far reaches of economic and social life,...
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This paper critically examines some narratives of water scarcity in Kutch, western India. It argues that images of dwindling rainfall and increasing drought largely serve to legitimize the controversial Sardar Sarovar dam and manufacture dominant perceptions concerning scarcity. This manufacture...
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