Like water for justice

Joshi, Deepa

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“…Commons literature has historically tended to compartmentalise as well as eulogise the role of communities in natural resources governance. Political ecologists have stressed how neoliberal designs of environmental governance embroil different institutions at scale (Goldman 2001;Castree 2011;Joshi 2015;Kashwan et al in press). In other words, inclusive and just governance can hardly be claimed to be synonymous with a unique model of community-based resource management, operating in isolation from the outer world, a stance that resonates with polycentric governance debates (Andersson and Ostrom 2008).…”

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Feminist political ecologies of the commons and commoning (Editorial to the Special Feature)

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“…In the Darjeeling region, the absence of a functional 'political' democracy impacts the lack of civil society, and this vicious cycle persists. And like in Darjeeling, but differently in Sikkim, civil freedoms have long been missing (Joshi, 2015), although precisely for that reason they should re-emerge. Nonetheless till then, hydropower development or any other form of translocal coercion, requires no more than a façade of participation.…”

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“…We cannot substantiate this claim, except to say that this view was repeated by many others, including those in formal, public offices. This form of coercion is not surprisingviolent coercive street-politics is in fact the dominant style of local governance (see Joshi, 2015).…”

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Watered down? Civil society organizations and hydropower development in the Darjeeling and Sikkim regions, Eastern Himalaya: A comparative study

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Mitigating climate change is often framed as the ultimate collective action problem of this era and great emphasis is made on the need for approaches that foster 'cooperation' and 'consensus'. This paper argues that the irony of this rhetoric could not be more stark; climate policy framing is an exclusionary process, and climate mitigating interventions that are engineered essentially to address neoliberal economic concerns rather than environmental challenges are often the source of multiple new conflicts. In this regard, this paper shows how the response of local non governmental organisations (NGOs) to hydropower development in the Darjeeling region of West Bengal in the Eastern Himalayas bears evidence to Gramscian analyses of 'the manufacture of consent' between elite bourgeois actorsthe state, formal civil society, political parties and the private sector. Such 'associational' unions are only occasionally interrupted, as in the case of the people's movement, Affected Citizens of Teesta (ACT) in North Sikkim. Finding a balance between resistance and enabling political space to think and act differently, the movement led to the cancellation of several hydropower projects put forward in the name of climate mitigation, and in the process, drew attention to political processes involved in the manufacture of consent. Using case studies from the Darjeeling and Sikkim regions, this paper distinguishes between Gramsci's vision of the political space of disruption vis-à-vis the covert agenda of climate consensus. Key policy insights. A politics of consensus in relation to climate change is an outcome of, and in turn reiterates, a narrowing of distance between the state and civil society.. Including civil society in climate policy decision making and implementation is considered positive and inclusive, however, it is important to note that civil society is not always and everywhere inclusive and transformative.. Both at global and national levels, it is claimed that climate change interventions happen in an overall framework of participatory, inclusive environmental governance; in relation to hydropower development, we note that this is hardly the practice on the ground.

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“…A lucrative private water market operates here, and permeates community and official interventions in water management. These hybrid arrangements of water delivery nested in entrenched political, social, economic injustices and are symptomatic of a democracy deficit evident in the wider political, social, and economic setting (Joshi 2015). Local politicians point to the enduring urban water supply crisis as a key marker of the politico-spatial injustice:…”

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Like water for justice

Cited by 23 publications

References 29 publications

Feminist political ecologies of the commons and commoning (Editorial to the Special Feature)

Feminist political ecologies of the commons and commoning (Editorial to the Special Feature)

Watered down? Civil society organizations and hydropower development in the Darjeeling and Sikkim regions, Eastern Himalaya: A comparative study

Views from Below: The Economics and Politics of Water in the Darjeeling Himalayas

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