Untouchability, homicides and water access

Bros, Catherine; Couttenier, Mathieu

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2014.12.001

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“…Despite the constitutional ban, in 2012, 30% of the rural respondents to the Indian Human Development Survey straightforwardly reported that they practiced untouchability. This practice translates in a variety of ways, including the exclusion of SCs from markets, or systematic deviation from market prices to their disadvantage (Thorat, Mahamanlik and Sadana's survey results in S. Thorat & Newman, 2010), constraints on access to credit (Kumar, 2013), spatial segregation (Deliège, 2004), widespread exclusion from public goods (Hanna & Linden, 2012;Shah, Mander, Thorat, Deshpande, & Baviskar, 2006), and a specific pattern of crimes against them (a pattern consistent with the enforcement of caste-based discrimination, Bros & Couttenier, 2015;Sharma, 2015).…”

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Don’t Touch My Road. Evidence from India on Affirmative Action And Everyday Discrimination

Girard

2018

World Development

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Don’t Touch My Road. Evidence from India on Affirmative Action And Everyday Discrimination

Girard

2018

World Development

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“…These data are not designed for cross‐country comparisons and might therefore not be fully reliable. See also Bros and Couttenier () for related work.…”

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Pathogens, Weather Shocks and Civil Conflicts

Cervellati

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Valmori

2017

The Economic Journal

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This article documents a statistically strong and quantitatively relevant effect of high exposure to infectious diseases on the risk of civil conflicts. The analysis exploits data on the presence and endemicity of multi-host vector-transmitted pathogens in a country, which is closely related to geoclimatic conditions due to the specific features of these pathogens. Exploiting within-country variation over time shows that this effect of pathogen exposure is significantly amplified by weather shocks. The results indicate health shocks and the outbreak of epidemics as a potential channel, while we find no evidence that the effect works through alternative channels like income, population dynamics, or institutions.

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“…Water governance has been problematized for over two decades now through critiques of the widespread privatization and commoditization of water that have followed urbanization, globalization, and the growing neoliberal imagination [6,39,40]. Other work has probed water governance using analytical departure points as diverse as context-specific property rights and water rights systems [32,41], attempts at territorial consolidation [42], the violent building of dams to support urbanization [43], the role of caste on the ability to access water [44], and even the relationship between social norms around caste-related access to water to homicides [45]. Notwithstanding the diversity in their points of departure, these studies have powerfully emphasized the need for water governance to be understood through lenses of power relations, social justice, and rights [28,46].…”

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Unmapped Water Access: Locating the Role of Religion in Access to Municipal Water Supply in Ahmedabad

Mawani

2019

Water

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Poor access to municipal water in Ahmedabad's Muslim areas has been tied to the difficulties of implementing a planning mechanism called the town planning scheme, which, in turn, have been premised on widespread illegal constructions that have developed across these sites. Residents, local politicians, and activists associate this causal explanation offered by engineers and planners for poor water access with a deliberate state-led intent to discriminate against them on the basis of religion. Using this causal association as a methodological entry-point, I examine through this paper how religious difference mediates decision-making and outcomes embodied by technical plans. Demonstrating how the uneven implementation of plans is not always a state-driven exercise as is often imagined, but instead a culmination of intense mediations between influential state and non-state actors with varying interests, I offer the following insights on water governance for sites divided by religion: (a) Negotiations driven by discourses on religious difference are a powerful force influencing the formulation of plans facilitating water access. However, these negotiations and plans are, simultaneously, also vulnerable to other political, legal, and economic pressures. Water governance across such sites thus often unfolds in an unstable landscape of unmapping and mapping; (b) influential legal actors from both majority and minority communities exert pressures obstructing the formulation and implementation of technical plans. The production of observable unmapped water access in minority areas thus, in reality, might not be contained within neat divides such as religion or illegality, but instead be a culmination of shifting interests, contestations, and negotiations confounding such categories; (c) institutionalized planning practices implicated in the intentional production of unmapping in such contexts might instead simply be discursive categories around which uneven water access coalesces.

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Untouchability, homicides and water access

Cited by 17 publications

References 25 publications

Don’t Touch My Road. Evidence from India on Affirmative Action And Everyday Discrimination

Don’t Touch My Road. Evidence from India on Affirmative Action And Everyday Discrimination

Pathogens, Weather Shocks and Civil Conflicts

Unmapped Water Access: Locating the Role of Religion in Access to Municipal Water Supply in Ahmedabad

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