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Priya Sangameswaran
Fellow in Development Studies
Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
BOOKS / BOOK CHAPTERS
  • (Re)forming development through water reforms. Book -in-progress.
  • Chapter titled “Scale, Diverse Economies, and Ethnographies of the State” forthcoming in Water Resources Policies in South Asia: Analyzing Regional and Country Experiences edited by Anjal Prakash, Sreoshi Singh, S. Janakarajan, Chanda Gurung Goodrich and Dibya Ratna Kansakar.
  • 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.
  • Extending the Security Discourse to the Environment and Water, in Paradigms of Security in Asia edited by Arpita Basu Roy, New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2011, pp. 61-73.
  • Chapter titled “Discourses in Water and Water Reform in Western India”, in Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws, edited by Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri, Roopa Madhav and Usha Ramanathan, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi: 2010, pp. 53-79.
  • Chapter titled “Institutional Reforms for Water” (co-authored with Roopa Madhav) in Water Law for the 21st Century: National and International Aspects of Water Law Reforms in India, edited by Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri, Roopa Madhav and Usha Ramanathan, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009, pp. 138-159.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • Interdisciplinarity in Water Research, Education and Activism in South Asia: The Way Ahead (jointly with Vishal Narain and K J Joy). Forthcoming in South Asian Water Studies.
  • Rural Drinking Water Reforms in Maharashtra: The Role of Neoliberalism. Economic and Political Weekly XLV(4: 62-69), January 23-29, 2010.
  • Sector Reforms in Water in Western India: Commercialization, Self–Sufficiency, and Restructuring of relations . Geoforum 40:228-238,2009.
  • Water rights for the Landless in Western India: From Pani Panchayat to Water Entitlements. European Journal of Development Research 21(2:195-212),April 2009.
  • 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.
  • 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.
WORKING PAPERS AND OTHER ARTICLES
  • “Development via the Lens of Value and Labour”, review of Vinay Gidwani’s Capital, Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in Indiain Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (Journal of the Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume XVI (1and2), 2009, pp. 281-287.
  • K J Joy, Priya Sangameswaran, A Latha, Shripad Dharmadhikary, M K Prasad and K P Soma, 2011, ‘Life, Livelihoods, Ecosystems, Culture: Entitlement and Allocations of Water for Competing Uses’ (position paper by the thematic subgroup on Water Entitlements and Allocations for Livelihoods and Ecosystem Needs), Pune: Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India.
  • “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’in Contributions to Indian Sociology 43 (1:160-163), February 2009.
  • 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.
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