Priya  Sangameswaran

 Fellow in Environmental Studies

 Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Research Interests: 

Post-development theory, political ecology, heterodox economic theory, rights-based discourses,

the concept of community in development practice and natural resource management,

theorizing neo-liberalization and its working in the context of water

Courses Taught:  Theories of Development

SELECTED LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS:

• Chapter titled “Institutional Reforms for Water” (co-authored with Roopa Madhav) forthcoming in Water Law for the 21^st Century: National and International Aspects of Water Law Reforms in India, edited by Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri, Roopa Madhav and Usha Ramanathan, Routledge-Cavendish.

• Chapter titled “The Right to Water in Different Discourses” forthcoming in Engendering Integrated Water Management in South Asia: Policy, Practice and Institutions, edited by Sara Ahmed, Margreet Zwarteveen and Suman Gautam, Sage Publications.

• Chapter titled “Discourses in Water and Water Reform in Western India”, forthcoming in Water Law at the Crossroads in India: National and International Perspectives, edited by Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri, Roopa Madhav and Usha Ramanathan, Cambridge University Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Sector Reforms in Water in Western India: Commercialization, Self-Sufficiency, and Restructuring of relations. Forthcoming in Geoforum.

• Water rights for the Landless in Western India: From Pani Panchayat to Water Entitlements. Forthcoming in European Journal of Development Research.

• Community Formation, ‘Ideal’ Villages and Watershed Development in Western India, Journal of Development Studies 44 (3: 384-408) March 2008.

• ‘Equity in Watershed Development: A Case Study in Western Maharashtra’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLI (21), May 27, 2006.

• 24/7, ‘Privatization’, and Water Reform: Insights from Hubli-Dharwad (co-authored with Roopa Madhav and Clifton D’Rozario). Economic and Political Weekly XLIII No.14, April 5, 2008.

WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER ARTICLES:

• “Water: Perspectives of Governance”, review of Vishwa Ballabh edited ‘Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy’ in Economic and Political Weekly, XLIV (2: 37-40).

• Review of David Mosse’s ‘The Rule of Water: Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India’ forthcoming in Contributions to Indian Sociology.

• Book Review of Arun Agrawal’s ‘Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects’ in Biblio: A Review of Books, November-December 2005.

• Review of Right to Water: Human Rights, State Legislation and Civil Society Initiatives in India’, Technical Report, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, Bangalore, January 2007.

• Entries on “Drinking Water”, “Irrigation”, and “Water Law”, in Encyclopedia of Environment and Society edited by Paul Robbins, Sage Publications, August 2007