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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Reforming the Centralised State: Decentralization Paradigms in the Drinking Water Sector in India and the Philippines
DESCRIPTION:This talk will examine decentralized reforms in the drinking water sector in India and the Philippines from a policy perspective focused on institutional design and implementation at the local level. It has been argued that institutional architecture for decentralized reforms is contested and requires better understanding of power and politics in shaping decentralization designs and outcomes. The paradigm of Indian decentralization is endogenous\, and from this one can suggest that greater devolution in the water sector will lead to greater democratization across other sectors. However\, given the biases of international development assistance in the Philippines\, decentralization has taken the form of privatization in a Philippine province. While highlighting the important role that the provision of safe drinking water can play in poverty alleviation\, Singh will suggest that privatized reforms have failed to address wider concerns related to the public goods nature of water. He will argue that decentralization can be synonymous with both democratization and privatization in different paradigms of decentralization in the water sector. \nSatyajit Singh is Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi. His research interests are governance\, Indian politics\, public policy\, development\, and environmental issues. His publications include The Local in Governance: Politics\, Decentralization and Environment; Taming the Waters: The Political Economy of Large Dams in India; The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley (co-editor); and Decentralisation: Institutions and Politics in Rural India (co-editor). \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG and the Department of Global Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-reforming-the-centralised-state-decentralization-paradigms-in-the-drinking-water-sector-in-india-and-the-philippines/
LOCATION:2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies\, SSMS UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: State Highway 31: A Road Trip through the Heart of Modern India
DESCRIPTION:This talk will follow the route of State Highway 31 through western Madhya Pradesh\, central India. The research is part of a larger project looking at the ideas behind the production of infrastructure in South Asia. This journey takes us through landscapes of sex work and opium\, some of the oldest nationalist networks in the country\, and along the fault-lines of long-running tensions between local communities. The road was one of a series built as a public private partnership and\, as such\, speaks of the reconfiguration of state relations with private capital and business. Toll booths become places of company ethos\, for education\, and for the creation of new kinds of citizens. The nexus of government and private enterprise takes us on a dizzying journey through the world’s tax havens and onto the decks of luxury yachts. Exploring the broader political economy of the road and the organization of institutions and travellers that sustains it encourages questions about the nature of governance and power in the country. \nEdward Simpson is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the South Asia Institute at SOAS University of London. He is currently interested in the relationship between infrastructure\, automobility\, and the global-sustainability agenda in South Asia. He is the Principal Investigator on a five-year project funded by the European Research Council looking at infrastructure across South Asia. This work is being undertaken in partnership with the Mumbai-based artists CAMP. His publications include The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat\, India and Muslim Society and the Indian Ocean: The Seafarers of Kachchh. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, the Department of Anthropology\, and the Department of History
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-state-highway-31-a-road-trip-through-the-heart-of-modern-india/
LOCATION:2001A HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Follow the Family: Kin Targeting in Counterinsurgencies
DESCRIPTION:Why are counterinsurgency campaigns able to overpower some insurgencies and not others? Amit Ahuja’s lecture will compare two counterinsurgency campaigns in India with divergent outcomes: the counterinsurgency in the Punjab was able to subdue the insurgency\, whereas the counterinsurgency in Kashmir has had limited success. Drawing on 105 interviews—54 with security force personnel and 51 with family members of insurgents—Ahuja will highlight the ability of the security forces to target a key vulnerability of an insurgency—insurgent family ties. Family ties bolster an insurgency. They are used to socialize an insurgent and offer a network of trust and emotional support. But as the phenomenon of insurgent family targeting by counterinsurgency campaigns indicates\, family ties are also a vulnerability for an insurgency. Counterinsurgents target families to limit the exposure of civilians to violence\, threaten active insurgents and deter potential insurgents\, gather information on the insurgency\, and encourage insurgents to leave the rebels. Ahuja’s lecture will highlight three findings: (1) when insurgent families are accessible to counterinsurgents\, they are targeted; (2) counterinsurgents rely on three unique yet interwoven insurgent family targeting mechanisms: coercion\, inducements\, and surveillance; (3) when an insurgency is unable to evolve mechanisms to resist family targeting\, it is more likely to be overpowered\, whereas when the insurgency evolves successful mechanisms to counter family targeting\, it is able to prolong its lifespan. \nAmit Ahuja is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the politics of inclusion and exclusion in South Asian multiethnic societies\, specifically within the context of ethnic parties and movements\, military organizations\, intercaste marriages\, and skin color preferences. His publications include Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements (Oxford University Press\, 2019) and a second monograph in progress on Building National Armies in Multiethnic States.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-follow-the-family-kin-targeting-in-counterinsurgencies/
LOCATION:Lane Room\, Ellison 3824\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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