Vishal Narain
Biographic Data
| ID | 4145585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vishal Narain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vishal |
| FAMILY NAME | Narain |
| SIGNATURE | NARAIN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Management Development Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8346-1122 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: Complex Configurations of Conflicts and Cooperation
Historically, water utilities have favored the modern ideal of piped infrastructure despite shortcomings in ensuring water access to the urban poor. Consequently, various state and non-state actors play influential roles in shaping water access to the poor through piped and non-piped socio-technical regimes of water provision. However, the existence of piped and non-piped water regimes and how they interact is often not seen as the work of munici…
Crossing troubled waters: Building a bridge across gender divisions among water professionals in South Asia
This paper examines the reasons for the limited presence of women in the water sector in South Asia and reviews recent efforts at reversing this trend. The reasons for the under representation of women in the sector are the perceived masculine nature of the sector, gender-based discrimination at the work place, and the absence of gender sensitive working environment. A change in the curricula of water education programs from engineering-oriented …
Belling the cat: Designing collective action institutions for natural resource management in the peri-urban interface
Peri-urban spaces are experiencing tremendous growth in the Global South, which in turn has fuelled a suite of environmental and natural resource management challenges, including inequitable access to and conflicts over natural resources, and the existence of institutional lacunae. Against this backdrop, we examine how scholars study collective action institutions around natural resource management in peri-urban spaces, with a regional focus on S…
Demystifying piped water supply: Formality and informality in (peri)urban water provisioning
Water utilities have favoured the modern ideal of piped networks and infrastructure that is reproduced in policies and discourses about achieving ambitious water targets. In this article, using ethnographic insights from an urbanising village of New Delhi called Rawta, we build on work that challenges the myth of formal water as ‘piped’ water and informal water as ‘non-piped’ and explore both piped and non-piped water as dynamic and socially nego…
Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia: Flows across Boundaries
The book describes how peri-urban changes in water security are experienced and variously acted upon in specific water use contexts.
Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia: Flows Across Boundaries
Lost in transition: Perspectives, processes and transformations in Periurbanizing India
G urgaon
Gurgaon is located in the northwest Indian state of Haryana. It has been growing since the 1980s as a recreation, residential, and outsourcing hub. This has been led predominantly by private initiative, though the state has provided a policy environment conducive to this. This process was shaped by the acquisition of agricultural land and water resources from the periphery; this has spawned debates about the equity and justice implications of suc…
Fluid Institutions: Commons in Transition in the Periurban Interface
Amidst growing concern about the decline of the commons, this case underscores the importance of understanding how the commons are refashioned and remade to address emerging challenges in periurban spaces. This article describes how institutions surrounding the use of common property resources get transformed and evolve in periurban contexts. What were once johads – common property village ponds – undergo a change in their usage from storing rain…
Replacement or displacement? Periurbanisation and changing water access in the Kumaon Himalaya, India
Re-framing India’s “water crisis”: An institutions and entitlements perspective
Public Policy: A View from the South
Over the last thirty years, several disciplines and sub-disciplines have emerged to deepen our understanding of public policy. However, this literature is dominated by western scholarship and has developed within the context of American and (Western) European public institutions. Efforts to place this literature in the context of the global South have been conspicuous by their absence. This book seeks to bridge this gap by placing this literature…
From the core to the periphery: Conflicts and cooperation over land and water in periurban Gurgaon, India
Public Policy: Analysis from India
Taken for a ride? Mainstreaming periurban transport with urban expansion policies
This article describes the transportation needs and practices of periurban residents in a village in the Gurgaon district of the Northwestern Indian state of Haryana. As conurbations grow, urban authorities place much emphasis on connecting them with other major cities or towns. Improving their connectivity with the peripheral villages receives scant attention. This ignores the duality of economies that operates within the newly created urban spa…
A fine muddle: (Re) Configuring water conflicts
Flowing against the current: The socio-technical mediation of water (in)security in periurban Gurgaon, India
Taking the road less taken: Reorienting the State for Periurban Water Security
This paper describes the intervention strategy to improve water security in Sultanpur, a village in periurban Gurgaon, India. Most approaches to improving natural resource management in periurban contexts focus on mobilising the community; little attention is paid to reorienting the state or strengthening the user-bureaucracy interface. This paper describes the action research process that was followed to reorient civic agencies engaged in the pr…
Land, water & power: The demise of common property resources in periurban Gurgaon, India
Where have all the commons gone
Shifting the Focus From Women to Gender Relations: Assessing the Impacts of Water Supply Interventions in the Morni–Shiwalik Hills of Northwest India
The present article argues for better assessing how drinking water supply interventions affect gender relations. This requires going beyond conventional “water burden” indicators such as time spent collecting water or distances walked to a water source. Based on research in the Shivalik hills of northwest India, the article shows how men's expectations of water uses changed when interventions brought piped water supplies to the area. Though the i…
Growing city, shrinking hinterland: Land acquisition, transition and conflict in peri-urban Gurgaon, India
This paper describes the implications of the land acquisition process in a village in the Gurgaon district of Haryana state in northwestern India. Gurgaon city, the district capital, is emerging as a major industrial hub, its growth made possible by the large-scale acquisition of agricultural lands by the government. The expansion of the city has altered patterns of rural natural resource use, created social, cultural and economic changes, and br…
The peri-urban interface in Shahpur Khurd and Karnera, India
This paper describes the peri-urbaninterfacein two villages — Shahpur Khurd and Karnera — located in the state of Haryana in north-west India, and close to Delhi, India's capital. The paper argues that devising policy interventions for the peri-urban interface requires explicit attention to strengthening rural—urban linkages that materialize through the two-way flow of goods and services between villages and urban centres. Improving transportatio…
Forms of Migration and Measurement in Social Demography
This paper is an attempt to identify the various forms of migration in demography and the associated measurements adopted and their limitation. In trying to conceptualize migration, we are in fact trying to identify those who move or migrants and those who do not move or non-migrants. Further it also involves a place or origin from where the migration starts and a place of destination where it culminates." The author discusses five aspects of ter…
Growing city, shrinking hinterland: Land acquisition, transition and conflict in peri-urban Gurgaon, India
This paper describes the implications of the land acquisition process in a village in the Gurgaon district of Haryana state in northwestern India. Gurgaon city, the district capital, is emerging as a major industrial hub, its growth made possible by the large-scale acquisition of agricultural lands by the government. The expansion of the city has altered patterns of rural natural resource use, created social, cultural and economic changes, and br…
The peri-urban interface in Shahpur Khurd and Karnera, India
This paper describes the peri-urbaninterfacein two villages — Shahpur Khurd and Karnera — located in the state of Haryana in north-west India, and close to Delhi, India's capital. The paper argues that devising policy interventions for the peri-urban interface requires explicit attention to strengthening rural—urban linkages that materialize through the two-way flow of goods and services between villages and urban centres. Improving transportatio…
Land, water & power: The demise of common property resources in periurban Gurgaon, India
Flowing against the current: The socio-technical mediation of water (in)security in periurban Gurgaon, India
From the core to the periphery: Conflicts and cooperation over land and water in periurban Gurgaon, India
Where have all the commons gone
Lost in transition: Perspectives, processes and transformations in Periurbanizing India
Fluid Institutions: Commons in Transition in the Periurban Interface
Amidst growing concern about the decline of the commons, this case underscores the importance of understanding how the commons are refashioned and remade to address emerging challenges in periurban spaces. This article describes how institutions surrounding the use of common property resources get transformed and evolve in periurban contexts. What were once johads – common property village ponds – undergo a change in their usage from storing rain…
Re-framing India’s “water crisis”: An institutions and entitlements perspective
Demystifying piped water supply: Formality and informality in (peri)urban water provisioning
Water utilities have favoured the modern ideal of piped networks and infrastructure that is reproduced in policies and discourses about achieving ambitious water targets. In this article, using ethnographic insights from an urbanising village of New Delhi called Rawta, we build on work that challenges the myth of formal water as ‘piped’ water and informal water as ‘non-piped’ and explore both piped and non-piped water as dynamic and socially nego…
Taken for a ride? Mainstreaming periurban transport with urban expansion policies
This article describes the transportation needs and practices of periurban residents in a village in the Gurgaon district of the Northwestern Indian state of Haryana. As conurbations grow, urban authorities place much emphasis on connecting them with other major cities or towns. Improving their connectivity with the peripheral villages receives scant attention. This ignores the duality of economies that operates within the newly created urban spa…
Replacement or displacement? Periurbanisation and changing water access in the Kumaon Himalaya, India
A fine muddle: (Re) Configuring water conflicts
Taking the road less taken: Reorienting the State for Periurban Water Security
This paper describes the intervention strategy to improve water security in Sultanpur, a village in periurban Gurgaon, India. Most approaches to improving natural resource management in periurban contexts focus on mobilising the community; little attention is paid to reorienting the state or strengthening the user-bureaucracy interface. This paper describes the action research process that was followed to reorient civic agencies engaged in the pr…
Forms of Migration and Measurement in Social Demography
This paper is an attempt to identify the various forms of migration in demography and the associated measurements adopted and their limitation. In trying to conceptualize migration, we are in fact trying to identify those who move or migrants and those who do not move or non-migrants. Further it also involves a place or origin from where the migration starts and a place of destination where it culminates." The author discusses five aspects of ter…
The peri-urban interface in Shahpur Khurd and Karnera, India
This paper describes the peri-urbaninterfacein two villages — Shahpur Khurd and Karnera — located in the state of Haryana in north-west India, and close to Delhi, India's capital. The paper argues that devising policy interventions for the peri-urban interface requires explicit attention to strengthening rural—urban linkages that materialize through the two-way flow of goods and services between villages and urban centres. Improving transportatio…
Growing city, shrinking hinterland: Land acquisition, transition and conflict in peri-urban Gurgaon, India
This paper describes the implications of the land acquisition process in a village in the Gurgaon district of Haryana state in northwestern India. Gurgaon city, the district capital, is emerging as a major industrial hub, its growth made possible by the large-scale acquisition of agricultural lands by the government. The expansion of the city has altered patterns of rural natural resource use, created social, cultural and economic changes, and br…
Shifting the Focus From Women to Gender Relations: Assessing the Impacts of Water Supply Interventions in the Morni–Shiwalik Hills of Northwest India
The present article argues for better assessing how drinking water supply interventions affect gender relations. This requires going beyond conventional “water burden” indicators such as time spent collecting water or distances walked to a water source. Based on research in the Shivalik hills of northwest India, the article shows how men's expectations of water uses changed when interventions brought piped water supplies to the area. Though the i…
Where have all the commons gone
Land, water & power: The demise of common property resources in periurban Gurgaon, India
Taken for a ride? Mainstreaming periurban transport with urban expansion policies
This article describes the transportation needs and practices of periurban residents in a village in the Gurgaon district of the Northwestern Indian state of Haryana. As conurbations grow, urban authorities place much emphasis on connecting them with other major cities or towns. Improving their connectivity with the peripheral villages receives scant attention. This ignores the duality of economies that operates within the newly created urban spa…
A fine muddle: (Re) Configuring water conflicts
Flowing against the current: The socio-technical mediation of water (in)security in periurban Gurgaon, India
Taking the road less taken: Reorienting the State for Periurban Water Security
This paper describes the intervention strategy to improve water security in Sultanpur, a village in periurban Gurgaon, India. Most approaches to improving natural resource management in periurban contexts focus on mobilising the community; little attention is paid to reorienting the state or strengthening the user-bureaucracy interface. This paper describes the action research process that was followed to reorient civic agencies engaged in the pr…
Public Policy: A View from the South
Over the last thirty years, several disciplines and sub-disciplines have emerged to deepen our understanding of public policy. However, this literature is dominated by western scholarship and has developed within the context of American and (Western) European public institutions. Efforts to place this literature in the context of the global South have been conspicuous by their absence. This book seeks to bridge this gap by placing this literature…
From the core to the periphery: Conflicts and cooperation over land and water in periurban Gurgaon, India
Public Policy: Analysis from India
G urgaon
Gurgaon is located in the northwest Indian state of Haryana. It has been growing since the 1980s as a recreation, residential, and outsourcing hub. This has been led predominantly by private initiative, though the state has provided a policy environment conducive to this. This process was shaped by the acquisition of agricultural land and water resources from the periphery; this has spawned debates about the equity and justice implications of suc…
Fluid Institutions: Commons in Transition in the Periurban Interface
Amidst growing concern about the decline of the commons, this case underscores the importance of understanding how the commons are refashioned and remade to address emerging challenges in periurban spaces. This article describes how institutions surrounding the use of common property resources get transformed and evolve in periurban contexts. What were once johads – common property village ponds – undergo a change in their usage from storing rain…
Replacement or displacement? Periurbanisation and changing water access in the Kumaon Himalaya, India
Re-framing India’s “water crisis”: An institutions and entitlements perspective
Lost in transition: Perspectives, processes and transformations in Periurbanizing India
Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia: Flows Across Boundaries
Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia: Flows across Boundaries
The book describes how peri-urban changes in water security are experienced and variously acted upon in specific water use contexts.
Demystifying piped water supply: Formality and informality in (peri)urban water provisioning
Water utilities have favoured the modern ideal of piped networks and infrastructure that is reproduced in policies and discourses about achieving ambitious water targets. In this article, using ethnographic insights from an urbanising village of New Delhi called Rawta, we build on work that challenges the myth of formal water as ‘piped’ water and informal water as ‘non-piped’ and explore both piped and non-piped water as dynamic and socially nego…
Crossing troubled waters: Building a bridge across gender divisions among water professionals in South Asia
This paper examines the reasons for the limited presence of women in the water sector in South Asia and reviews recent efforts at reversing this trend. The reasons for the under representation of women in the sector are the perceived masculine nature of the sector, gender-based discrimination at the work place, and the absence of gender sensitive working environment. A change in the curricula of water education programs from engineering-oriented …
Belling the cat: Designing collective action institutions for natural resource management in the peri-urban interface
Peri-urban spaces are experiencing tremendous growth in the Global South, which in turn has fuelled a suite of environmental and natural resource management challenges, including inequitable access to and conflicts over natural resources, and the existence of institutional lacunae. Against this backdrop, we examine how scholars study collective action institutions around natural resource management in peri-urban spaces, with a regional focus on S…
Beyond the (non)piped drinking water regimes: Complex Configurations of Conflicts and Cooperation
Historically, water utilities have favored the modern ideal of piped infrastructure despite shortcomings in ensuring water access to the urban poor. Consequently, various state and non-state actors play influential roles in shaping water access to the poor through piped and non-piped socio-technical regimes of water provision. However, the existence of piped and non-piped water regimes and how they interact is often not seen as the work of munici…
Geography (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (15 works) · Environmental planning (14 works) · Business (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Urbanization (7 works) · Water resources management and optimization (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works)