Generating power

Gender, ethnicity and empowerment in India's Narmada Valley

Bibliographic Data

ID2150070
AuthorsPriya Kurian (0000-0002-8138-4602, corresponding author), Priya A Kurian
Year2000
Volume23
Issue5
Pages842-856
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870050110922
OpenAlexW2023267040
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

Current analyses of issues relating to ethnicity and empowerment are silent about the significance of the environment in shaping and being shaped by human relations. For its part, environmental policy research, with few exceptions, has also ignored the dynamics of identity construction and cultural values that inform human relationships with the environment and thus affect environmental sustainability. I address this gap in the scholarship through an analysis of the Sardar Sarovar Project [SSP] in India. I explore the interweaving of the constructions of gender, ethnicity and empowerment and their implications for a new politics of the environment - the politics of environmental justice. I argue that discourses of modernization underpin the arguments of all those who discuss the SSP, whether in favour or against

Affect (linguistics · Empowerment · Environmental ethics · Environmental justice · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · Sustainability · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religion, Society, and Development · Water Governance and Infrastructure