Richa Dhanju
Biographic Data
| ID | 174881 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richa Dhanju |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richa |
| FAMILY NAME | Dhanju |
| SIGNATURE | DHANJU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Subjected to Sanitation: Caste Relations and Sanitation Adoption in Rural Tamil Nadu
If solving the global sanitation crisis lies within Indian borders, then it is important to understand the influence of caste relations on sanitation building and usage. Our ethnography investigated three villages in rural Tamil Nadu where seven separate sanitation interventions had failed. The analysis indicates caste relations played a key role in the failed interventions by creating and reinforcing the means by which caste groups distinguished…
Exploring “The Remote” and “The Rural”: Open Defecation and Latrine Use in Uttarakhand, India
Open defecation is a major global health problem. The number of open defecators in India dwarfs that of other states, and most live in rural places. Open defecation is often approached as a problem scaled at the site of the individual, who makes a choice not to build and/or use a toilet. Attempts to end rural open defecation by targeting individuals, like social marketing or behavior change approaches, often ignore the structural inequalities tha…
I know! I live here: Poor Women and the Work of Empowerment
To trace the effects of empowerment programmes in the Global South, attention needs to be focused on the everyday practices of frontline staff, or fieldworkers, who convey empowerment ideas and practices at the grassroots. This is especially critical when fieldworkers work in the marginalised communities where they also live. Instead of looking outward towards a programme’s outcomes, this article turns inward to examine the impact of women fieldw…
Reaching the unreached? Good governance and welfare reform politics in Delhi, India
Good governance scholarship has been preoccupied with the donor-driven conditionalities imposed on aid-receiving developing countries. Limited attention has been given to power struggles and resistance from government actors (bureaucrats and politicians) to embrace internally driven good governance programmes. To address this gap, this article ethnographically examines a good governance initiative of the Delhi government (India) to reform its wel…
Human Subjects Research and the Ethics of Intervention: Life, Death, and Radical Geography in Practice
Public taps and private connections: The production of caste distinction and common sense in a Rajasthan drinking water supply project
This paper analyses a drinking water supply project in rural Rajasthan, India, that deliberately sought to create greater equality across caste for water users through a combination of public taps and payment for water. Later, in the post‐construction phase of the project, those goals were undermined by the counter‐technologies of upper caste households and the village‐scale institutions that supported them. The paper brings together geographic r…
Hybrid drinking water governance: Community participation and ongoing neoliberal reforms in rural Rajasthan, India
"Your Report is Completely Wrong!" (aapkii report ek dum galat hai!): Locating Spaces Inside NGOs for Feedback and Dissemination
This paper explores separate, but similar, confrontations that occurred at the end of two research studies conducted with two different Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Rajasthan, India. Although our goals included explaining our questions and methods during the research period, when we returned to the field for feedback and dissemination, in both cases, the research participants were upset by our findings. The similarity of the experienc…
When Did "Do No Harm" Become "Do Nothing"? Graduate Student Perspectives on the HTS Controversy
Liam Frink is contributing editor of "Ethical Currents," the AAA Committee on Ethics column in Anthropology News
Hybrid drinking water governance: Community participation and ongoing neoliberal reforms in rural Rajasthan, India
Exploring “The Remote” and “The Rural”: Open Defecation and Latrine Use in Uttarakhand, India
Open defecation is a major global health problem. The number of open defecators in India dwarfs that of other states, and most live in rural places. Open defecation is often approached as a problem scaled at the site of the individual, who makes a choice not to build and/or use a toilet. Attempts to end rural open defecation by targeting individuals, like social marketing or behavior change approaches, often ignore the structural inequalities tha…
Public taps and private connections: The production of caste distinction and common sense in a Rajasthan drinking water supply project
This paper analyses a drinking water supply project in rural Rajasthan, India, that deliberately sought to create greater equality across caste for water users through a combination of public taps and payment for water. Later, in the post‐construction phase of the project, those goals were undermined by the counter‐technologies of upper caste households and the village‐scale institutions that supported them. The paper brings together geographic r…
Reaching the unreached? Good governance and welfare reform politics in Delhi, India
Good governance scholarship has been preoccupied with the donor-driven conditionalities imposed on aid-receiving developing countries. Limited attention has been given to power struggles and resistance from government actors (bureaucrats and politicians) to embrace internally driven good governance programmes. To address this gap, this article ethnographically examines a good governance initiative of the Delhi government (India) to reform its wel…
Human Subjects Research and the Ethics of Intervention: Life, Death, and Radical Geography in Practice
When Did "Do No Harm" Become "Do Nothing"? Graduate Student Perspectives on the HTS Controversy
Liam Frink is contributing editor of "Ethical Currents," the AAA Committee on Ethics column in Anthropology News
"Your Report is Completely Wrong!" (aapkii report ek dum galat hai!): Locating Spaces Inside NGOs for Feedback and Dissemination
This paper explores separate, but similar, confrontations that occurred at the end of two research studies conducted with two different Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Rajasthan, India. Although our goals included explaining our questions and methods during the research period, when we returned to the field for feedback and dissemination, in both cases, the research participants were upset by our findings. The similarity of the experienc…
Hybrid drinking water governance: Community participation and ongoing neoliberal reforms in rural Rajasthan, India
Human Subjects Research and the Ethics of Intervention: Life, Death, and Radical Geography in Practice
Public taps and private connections: The production of caste distinction and common sense in a Rajasthan drinking water supply project
This paper analyses a drinking water supply project in rural Rajasthan, India, that deliberately sought to create greater equality across caste for water users through a combination of public taps and payment for water. Later, in the post‐construction phase of the project, those goals were undermined by the counter‐technologies of upper caste households and the village‐scale institutions that supported them. The paper brings together geographic r…
Reaching the unreached? Good governance and welfare reform politics in Delhi, India
Good governance scholarship has been preoccupied with the donor-driven conditionalities imposed on aid-receiving developing countries. Limited attention has been given to power struggles and resistance from government actors (bureaucrats and politicians) to embrace internally driven good governance programmes. To address this gap, this article ethnographically examines a good governance initiative of the Delhi government (India) to reform its wel…
Subjected to Sanitation: Caste Relations and Sanitation Adoption in Rural Tamil Nadu
If solving the global sanitation crisis lies within Indian borders, then it is important to understand the influence of caste relations on sanitation building and usage. Our ethnography investigated three villages in rural Tamil Nadu where seven separate sanitation interventions had failed. The analysis indicates caste relations played a key role in the failed interventions by creating and reinforcing the means by which caste groups distinguished…
Exploring “The Remote” and “The Rural”: Open Defecation and Latrine Use in Uttarakhand, India
Open defecation is a major global health problem. The number of open defecators in India dwarfs that of other states, and most live in rural places. Open defecation is often approached as a problem scaled at the site of the individual, who makes a choice not to build and/or use a toilet. Attempts to end rural open defecation by targeting individuals, like social marketing or behavior change approaches, often ignore the structural inequalities tha…
I know! I live here: Poor Women and the Work of Empowerment
To trace the effects of empowerment programmes in the Global South, attention needs to be focused on the everyday practices of frontline staff, or fieldworkers, who convey empowerment ideas and practices at the grassroots. This is especially critical when fieldworkers work in the marginalised communities where they also live. Instead of looking outward towards a programme’s outcomes, this article turns inward to examine the impact of women fieldw…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works)