Technocratic managerialism has a long legacy of infrastructuring the Godavari river to maintain the hydraulic order of Nashik city. The implementation of hard infrastructures in the riverscape has been the dominant governmentality in the city. https://t.co/n2AlTCwIel
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@ankurgame@kishalay Hi, looks like a great thread and interesting event. I have been working on the political ecology of Godavari River, specifically in Nashik city, since the last Kumbh Mela of 2015. Would love to connect and know more about the event and call for paper!
Great session on 'Heritage Preservation and Local Communities' by Nashik Heritage Trails and Studio Urban Dialogue, both based in Nashik. +921HeritageDialogue sessions are available on @pkchowk youtube channel. Amrita Ganatirkar @shilpadahake Mrunmayee Pendse-Chaudhari #southasia
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Our book Climate Justice in India ed. by @PKashwan will be OPEN ACCESS!!! Huge props to Prakash for pulling this off and excited to be part of such an accomplished team. My chapter seeks to reimagine climate justice as caste justice. https://t.co/XCVWrgnshp
"All cities in the subcontinent are waterscapes. They are threaded with rivers, speckled with wetlands and springs, and they rest on invisible aquifers. Yet, driven by a thirst for land, our cities are planned to subjugate water, not live with it."
In a first #Chhattisgarh Assembly has passed an unanimous resolution to cancell the allotment of Coal Blocks in #HasdeoAranya Dense Forest
First ever Assembly which has passed such a resolution for Conservation
Now Centre has to respect people's will
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-There is a notion that “#flood equals disaster”, which is completely wrong. People traditionally never saw floods as disasters. “We made it into a #disaster,” says Thakkar. https://t.co/zoBhtEKerm
New in IIHS journal Urbanisation:
Book review: Jenia Mukherjee, Blue Infrastructures: Natural History, Political Ecology, and Urban Development in Kolkata by @shilpadahake
Read it here: https://t.co/nQ7Uh4rmp2
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How building cities over the water bodies affects us. A seemingly harmless project by city planners may look innocuous but it can cause so much harm to ecology & contributes to rise in local temperature.
My special ground report @newslaundry
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The coevolving relationship linking economy, religion, development, and waste and pollution between #Nashik and #Godavari@shilpadahake -- new @epw_in: https://t.co/Sv3CQfyHzN
Anyone with any knowledge of urban India would know that demolitions have been routinely used to displace and disenfranchise the poor and the stigmatized. It has never been about legality because that has been arbitrarily extended to the rich and the powerful. Now it has become..
River floods are already the most damaging disaster type globally, with risk projected to rise in much of the world due to #climatechange, development in flood-prone areas, and/or deteriorating infrastructure.
Future Tense: Chennai's new airport will be built on water.
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