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074173
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075321
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2006.
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Public anthropology finds company with many other movements in and out of academia today that struggle to open up dialogue on national and global issues and democratize decision-making on problems that most affect people's lives. Public anthropology is a popular emphasis in environmental anthropology where researchers examine contentious struggles and debates over key natural resources. In this paper, I highlight the challenges and predicaments I have faced while documenting an environmental problem in India. I condense these challenges into three kinds of engagements that involve the open-sourcing of science, resource nationalism and news reporting. I explain how these anthropological challenges and predicaments intersect with the goals of Indian river activists and experts as they aim to open up dialogue and decision-making on water issues.
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054607
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July 2004.
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The plan to interlink the rivers of India and create a new “national water grid” comes at a time when water scarcity discourses assume a nervous tone that is at once local and global, triggering fears of continuing drought, falling ground water tables, and the further contamination of surface waters. This paper explores the way in which a large scale resource use plan is made in India and how it is debated by specialist groups and concerned citizens outside government. The paper covers historical and contemporary discussions regarding the river linking plan through official and unofficial water use discourses, governmental, judicial and NGO documents, decision-making events, and my own participant observation conducted during the summer of 2003. It also addresses, in this context, the relation between science and policy-making and the paths of communication and knowledge exchange between officials and experts in and outside government offices.
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