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Community Formation, 'Ideal' Villages and Watershed Development in Western India

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  • Priya Sangameswaran

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This paper discusses how the vision of an 'ideal village' is used in the construction of feelings of community in a watershed development project in India. What constitutes the notion of idealness and how it emerges in a particular context is determined by a number of factors. The discussion of the working of two aspects of the project - voluntary labour and watershed-plus measures - brings out the usefulness of such a vision in community-formation, even though different actors involved in these aspects are also motivated by factors other than idealness. Further, the successful working of these aspects also indirectly re-enforces the notion of idealness, although critical engagement with it is sometimes limited by the focus on community-making.

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  • Priya Sangameswaran, 2008. "Community Formation, 'Ideal' Villages and Watershed Development in Western India," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(3), pages 384-408.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:44:y:2008:i:3:p:384-408
    DOI: 10.1080/00220380701848426
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    1. Mahajan, Rashmi R. & Rajankar, Manish, 2024. "Inclusive Management of Our Water Commons," Ecology, Economy and Society - the INSEE Journal, Indian Society of Ecological Economics (INSEE), vol. 7(01), January.
    2. Siwa Msangi & Sarah Ann Cline, 2016. "Improving Groundwater Management for Indian Agriculture: Assessing Tradeoffs Across Policy Instruments," Water Economics and Policy (WEP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 2(03), pages 1-33, September.

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