Environment Technology and Development : Critical and Subversive Essays0
Contents: Introduction/Rohan D’Souza. Section I. Stories for Our Time: Technology as the Anti-Hero : 1. Safety First? Kaiga and Other Nuclear Stories/M. V. Ramana and Ashwin Kumar. 2. A Biotechnology Story: Notes from India/Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar. 3. Overfishing along Kerala Coast: Causes and Consequences /John Kurien and T. R. Thankappan Achari. Section II. Development Solutions become Political Questions: 4. Desalination in Chennai: What About the Poor and the Environment?/Gregor Meerganz von Medeazza. 5. Eucalyptus: Why?/Mahasveta Devi. 6. Other Side of New Industrialisation/G. Vijay. Section III. Rewiring Technology to Debate Justice and Equity: 7. Sustainable Transport Systems: Linkages between Environmental Issues, Public Transport, Non-Motorised Transport and Safety/Dinesh Mohan and Geetam Tiwari . 8. The Global Warming Regime after 2012: Towards a New Focus/Philippe Cullet . 9. Political Architecture of India’s Technology System for Solar Energy/Barbara Harriss-White, Sunali Rohra and Nigel Singh. Section IV. Rethinking Agriculture as Ecological Relationships : 10. Agricultural Development and Ecological Degradation; An Analytical Framework/C. H. Hanumantha Rao. 11. Real Estate and Agricultural Wetlands in Kerala/P. P. Nikhil Raj and P. A. Azeez. 12. Peri-Urban Agriculture and Aquaculture/Rahul Gupta and Sumita Gupta Gangopadhyay. Section V. Livelihoods versus Lifestyles : 13. Big Dams, Big Floods: On Predatory Development/Hiren Gohain. 14. Amusement Parks versus People’s Livelihood/Arundhuti Roy Choudhury. 15. Technological Alternatives and the Indian Energy Crisis/Amulya Kumar N. Reddy and K. Krishna Prasad. Section VI. Space against Place: Eliminating Locality: 16. Dwelling on Morichjhanpi: When Tigers Became ‘Citizens’, Refugees Tiger-Food/Annu Jalais. 17. Drinking Water Crisis in Kutch: A Natural Phenomenon?/Charul Bharwada and Vinay Mahajan. 18. Emerging Cityscapes and Environmental Issues/Sudha Srivastava and Dipti Mukherji . 19. Mine Now, Mine Forever?/Manshi Asher. Section VII. Environment, Technology and Development: Towards the Big Questions: 20. Political Economy of Ecology Movements/Jayanta Bandyopadhyay and Vandana Shiva. 21. Energy Policy for Rural India/Arjun Makhijani . 22. Poverty, Environment, Development/A View from Gandhi’s Window /L. C. Jain.
Drawn from the rich archival holdings of the Economic and Political Weekly, the essays in this volume capture the intense discussions in India that were debated as problems and questions over the environment, technology and development. As a collection, this volume proposes a fresh and new analytical coherence for these essays by resituating them with an engaging introduction under the broader themes of criticality and subversion. Consequently, these writings will speak not only to several contemporary academic and policy concerns but are also meant to provide a meaningful sense of how ideas on the environment, technology and development were interrelated and shaped in various types of political discourses in India, most notably from the 1970s onwards.
This volume is intended to address the needs of a rapidly growing interest in interdisciplinary programmes and will also carry appeal amongst development and policy practitioners and those who wish to pursue interdisciplinary research questions.
