Vasudha Chhotray
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 131343 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vasudha Chhotray |
| NOMBRES | Vasudha |
| APELLIDO | Chhotray |
| FIRMA | CHHOTRAY V |
| AFILIACIONES | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3593-7480 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Green Developmentalism? The Political Economy of Hydropower in India in the 21st Century
This article critically examines the political economy of hydropower in India since its global reconfiguration as ‘green energy’ in the early 2000s. While an opportune convergence of interests among key global, national and subnational stakeholders contributed to the greening of hydropower in India, this reframing did not produce the expected flows of private capital into the development of hydropower projects. Yet the state persists in its suppo…
Two Regimes of Waste and Value
In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in the aftermath of a catastrophe by indomitable state–capital alliances. Insidious ideas of entrepreneursh…
‘We are not in the same boat’
‘Representations’ of recovery refer to the creation, circulation, reinforcement and subversion of ideas about what should be done in the months and years after a hazard has struck. The research reported in this paper outlines how contrasting and, in some cases, openly contested narratives can emerge in society around the nature and causes of the event, the impacts and needs of the affected population, and the priorities and effectiveness of recov…
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture
This paper critically examines the reconfiguration of post-supercyclone Ersama in coastal Odisha in India, to encourage the introduction of a new form of shrimp aquaculture as the principal livelihood. It demonstrates the operation of a powerful shared construction of Ersama, a typically paddy cultivating area, as a landscape rendered ‘empty’ and ‘unproductive’ by the supercyclone of 1999. The paper shows how this notion, shared by locals and ext…
Access Revisited
Although A Theory of Access is the best known and most widely cited work on access, it is rooted in a rich body of scholarship.Ribot and Peluso build on the works of Berry
The political prioritization of welfare in India
The Political Construction of Extractive Regimes in Two Newly Created Indian States
This article presents a multidimensional account of the politics of resource extraction in two subnational regions of India in response to the question: what are the political conditions that facilitate extraction? Emerging from the same moment of state creation in 2000, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are adjacent mineral-rich states with similar demographic profiles and comparable levels of economic development. The authors argue that despite these …
Certifications of citizenship
Experiences in the post-partition Indian subcontinent refute the conventional expectation that the 'possession of citizenship enables the acquisition of documents certifying it' (Jayal, 2013, 71). Instead, identity papers of various types play a vital part in certifying and authenticating claims to citizenship. This is particularly important in a context where the history of state formation, continuous migration flows and the rise of right-wing m…
Nullification of citizenship
This paper discusses the case of a community of Bengali immigrant settlers along the coast of Odisha in India at the centre of a unique citizenship controversy. Families have arrived here gradually over the years since 1947, and have generally acquired a range of identity documents from Indian state agencies. These documents certify to a range of rights that signal social and political participation within India: land ownership, voting rights and…
Disaster relief and the Indian state
Global justice and disasters
Critical inquiry into the relationship between natural hazards and disasters has raised pressing questions about the uneven exposure and resilience of different social groups. This paper argues that human-induced climate change and its implication in a range of extreme events extends and complicates the pursuit of justice in the context of differentiated vulnerability to hazards. But the challenge of living with natural hazards can provoke and in…
Post-disaster recovery and ongoing vulnerability
Understanding the co-existence of conflict and cooperation
This article contributes to our understanding of transboundary environmental management regimes through the application of an analytical framework that facilitates an exploration of the co-existence of conflict and cooperation. Rather than framing conflict and cooperation as mutually exclusive states at opposite ends of a spectrum, we seek to understand the ways in which cooperation can exist at the same time as conflict. We apply this framework …
Governance Theory and Practice
Confusion about governance abounds. Many lack appreciation of how different traditions of thought in the social sciences contribute to our understanding. This book tackles these weaknesses head on and
Governance Theory and Practice
Contrasting Visions for Aid and Governance in the 21st Century
Rural Governance
The ‘Anti-politics machine’ in India
This article investigates the rationale and implications of creating non-elected community-based bodies for India's national watershed development programme in 1994. A discourse of depoliticisation is in use to justify the creation of ‘apolitical’ watershed committees in contrast to ‘political’ panchayats, ostensibly unsuitable for participatory development for their embodiment of political contestation and vested interests. The discourse masks c…
Managing Watershed Externalities in India
Who cares about participation? How a rhetorical state policy is practised incredulously
This article responds to a recently made proposition that development policy does not drive practice but, instead, that practice produces policy, with key actors striving to maintain coherent representations of it. This proposition is used to examine the translation of the national policy for participatory Watershed Development in India into concrete procedures at the district level and, ultimately, the practices that follow to sustain them. Whil…
The Negation of Politics in Participatory Development Projects, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
Based on a case study of two watershed development projects in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh in India, this article argues that participatory development projects are legitimized by using formalistic compliance criteria, while removing politics as a context. It shows how key aspects of the liberal political framework have not been fully harmonized with communitarian theories; the result is an interpretation of participation as a set of pract…
The Making of Land and the Making of India
"The Making of Land and the Making of India." The Journal of Development Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Governance Theory and Practice
Introduction: Exploring Governance Governance in Public Administration and Political Science Governance and the New Institutional Economics International Relations Governance in Development Studies Governance in Socio Legal Studies Corporate Governance (with Damian Tobin) Participatory Governance Environmental Governance Governance: From Theory to Practice
Disaster relief and the Indian state
The Negation of Politics in Participatory Development Projects, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
Based on a case study of two watershed development projects in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh in India, this article argues that participatory development projects are legitimized by using formalistic compliance criteria, while removing politics as a context. It shows how key aspects of the liberal political framework have not been fully harmonized with communitarian theories; the result is an interpretation of participation as a set of pract…
Contrasting Visions for Aid and Governance in the 21st Century
Certifications of citizenship
Experiences in the post-partition Indian subcontinent refute the conventional expectation that the 'possession of citizenship enables the acquisition of documents certifying it' (Jayal, 2013, 71). Instead, identity papers of various types play a vital part in certifying and authenticating claims to citizenship. This is particularly important in a context where the history of state formation, continuous migration flows and the rise of right-wing m…
The political prioritization of welfare in India
Post-disaster recovery and ongoing vulnerability
Global justice and disasters
Critical inquiry into the relationship between natural hazards and disasters has raised pressing questions about the uneven exposure and resilience of different social groups. This paper argues that human-induced climate change and its implication in a range of extreme events extends and complicates the pursuit of justice in the context of differentiated vulnerability to hazards. But the challenge of living with natural hazards can provoke and in…
Understanding the co-existence of conflict and cooperation
This article contributes to our understanding of transboundary environmental management regimes through the application of an analytical framework that facilitates an exploration of the co-existence of conflict and cooperation. Rather than framing conflict and cooperation as mutually exclusive states at opposite ends of a spectrum, we seek to understand the ways in which cooperation can exist at the same time as conflict. We apply this framework …
Access Revisited
Although A Theory of Access is the best known and most widely cited work on access, it is rooted in a rich body of scholarship.Ribot and Peluso build on the works of Berry
Nullification of citizenship
This paper discusses the case of a community of Bengali immigrant settlers along the coast of Odisha in India at the centre of a unique citizenship controversy. Families have arrived here gradually over the years since 1947, and have generally acquired a range of identity documents from Indian state agencies. These documents certify to a range of rights that signal social and political participation within India: land ownership, voting rights and…
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture
This paper critically examines the reconfiguration of post-supercyclone Ersama in coastal Odisha in India, to encourage the introduction of a new form of shrimp aquaculture as the principal livelihood. It demonstrates the operation of a powerful shared construction of Ersama, a typically paddy cultivating area, as a landscape rendered ‘empty’ and ‘unproductive’ by the supercyclone of 1999. The paper shows how this notion, shared by locals and ext…
The Political Construction of Extractive Regimes in Two Newly Created Indian States
This article presents a multidimensional account of the politics of resource extraction in two subnational regions of India in response to the question: what are the political conditions that facilitate extraction? Emerging from the same moment of state creation in 2000, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are adjacent mineral-rich states with similar demographic profiles and comparable levels of economic development. The authors argue that despite these …
Who cares about participation? How a rhetorical state policy is practised incredulously
This article responds to a recently made proposition that development policy does not drive practice but, instead, that practice produces policy, with key actors striving to maintain coherent representations of it. This proposition is used to examine the translation of the national policy for participatory Watershed Development in India into concrete procedures at the district level and, ultimately, the practices that follow to sustain them. Whil…
The Negation of Politics in Participatory Development Projects, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
Based on a case study of two watershed development projects in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh in India, this article argues that participatory development projects are legitimized by using formalistic compliance criteria, while removing politics as a context. It shows how key aspects of the liberal political framework have not been fully harmonized with communitarian theories; the result is an interpretation of participation as a set of pract…
Who cares about participation? How a rhetorical state policy is practised incredulously
This article responds to a recently made proposition that development policy does not drive practice but, instead, that practice produces policy, with key actors striving to maintain coherent representations of it. This proposition is used to examine the translation of the national policy for participatory Watershed Development in India into concrete procedures at the district level and, ultimately, the practices that follow to sustain them. Whil…
The ‘Anti-politics machine’ in India
This article investigates the rationale and implications of creating non-elected community-based bodies for India's national watershed development programme in 1994. A discourse of depoliticisation is in use to justify the creation of ‘apolitical’ watershed committees in contrast to ‘political’ panchayats, ostensibly unsuitable for participatory development for their embodiment of political contestation and vested interests. The discourse masks c…
Managing Watershed Externalities in India
Governance Theory and Practice
Contrasting Visions for Aid and Governance in the 21st Century
Rural Governance
Governance Theory and Practice
Confusion about governance abounds. Many lack appreciation of how different traditions of thought in the social sciences contribute to our understanding. This book tackles these weaknesses head on and
Understanding the co-existence of conflict and cooperation
This article contributes to our understanding of transboundary environmental management regimes through the application of an analytical framework that facilitates an exploration of the co-existence of conflict and cooperation. Rather than framing conflict and cooperation as mutually exclusive states at opposite ends of a spectrum, we seek to understand the ways in which cooperation can exist at the same time as conflict. We apply this framework …
Post-disaster recovery and ongoing vulnerability
Global justice and disasters
Critical inquiry into the relationship between natural hazards and disasters has raised pressing questions about the uneven exposure and resilience of different social groups. This paper argues that human-induced climate change and its implication in a range of extreme events extends and complicates the pursuit of justice in the context of differentiated vulnerability to hazards. But the challenge of living with natural hazards can provoke and in…
Disaster relief and the Indian state
Nullification of citizenship
This paper discusses the case of a community of Bengali immigrant settlers along the coast of Odisha in India at the centre of a unique citizenship controversy. Families have arrived here gradually over the years since 1947, and have generally acquired a range of identity documents from Indian state agencies. These documents certify to a range of rights that signal social and political participation within India: land ownership, voting rights and…
Certifications of citizenship
Experiences in the post-partition Indian subcontinent refute the conventional expectation that the 'possession of citizenship enables the acquisition of documents certifying it' (Jayal, 2013, 71). Instead, identity papers of various types play a vital part in certifying and authenticating claims to citizenship. This is particularly important in a context where the history of state formation, continuous migration flows and the rise of right-wing m…
Access Revisited
Although A Theory of Access is the best known and most widely cited work on access, it is rooted in a rich body of scholarship.Ribot and Peluso build on the works of Berry
The political prioritization of welfare in India
The Political Construction of Extractive Regimes in Two Newly Created Indian States
This article presents a multidimensional account of the politics of resource extraction in two subnational regions of India in response to the question: what are the political conditions that facilitate extraction? Emerging from the same moment of state creation in 2000, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh are adjacent mineral-rich states with similar demographic profiles and comparable levels of economic development. The authors argue that despite these …
A supercyclone, landscapes of ‘emptiness’ and shrimp aquaculture
This paper critically examines the reconfiguration of post-supercyclone Ersama in coastal Odisha in India, to encourage the introduction of a new form of shrimp aquaculture as the principal livelihood. It demonstrates the operation of a powerful shared construction of Ersama, a typically paddy cultivating area, as a landscape rendered ‘empty’ and ‘unproductive’ by the supercyclone of 1999. The paper shows how this notion, shared by locals and ext…
‘We are not in the same boat’
‘Representations’ of recovery refer to the creation, circulation, reinforcement and subversion of ideas about what should be done in the months and years after a hazard has struck. The research reported in this paper outlines how contrasting and, in some cases, openly contested narratives can emerge in society around the nature and causes of the event, the impacts and needs of the affected population, and the priorities and effectiveness of recov…
The Making of Land and the Making of India
"The Making of Land and the Making of India." The Journal of Development Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Governance Theory and Practice
Introduction: Exploring Governance Governance in Public Administration and Political Science Governance and the New Institutional Economics International Relations Governance in Development Studies Governance in Socio Legal Studies Corporate Governance (with Damian Tobin) Participatory Governance Environmental Governance Governance: From Theory to Practice
Green Developmentalism? The Political Economy of Hydropower in India in the 21st Century
This article critically examines the political economy of hydropower in India since its global reconfiguration as ‘green energy’ in the early 2000s. While an opportune convergence of interests among key global, national and subnational stakeholders contributed to the greening of hydropower in India, this reframing did not produce the expected flows of private capital into the development of hydropower projects. Yet the state persists in its suppo…
Two Regimes of Waste and Value
In this age of ‘disaster capitalism’, catastrophes are neither ‘natural’ nor ‘external’. They are political events mediating and vitally shaping the unequal and exploitative use of environmental resources. India's ‘post‐disaster’ landscapes at the turn of the new millennium powerfully demonstrate how visions of the new‐normal can be imposed in the aftermath of a catastrophe by indomitable state–capital alliances. Insidious ideas of entrepreneursh…
Political science (17 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Economics (12 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Politics (12 obras) · Corporate governance (7 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras)