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1. Introduction

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Abstract

This chapter introduces the topic of river control in India and defines the research focus. It discusses the theoretical framework used in this work, which is developed using poststructural political ecology inspired by the work of Michel Foucault. The methods of discourse analysis and biographical research used to analyse the genealogy, governmentality and subjectivity of expert discourse on river control are briefly introduced.

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Nächstes Kapitel Analytical Approaches to River Control
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1
Flood control embankments are also known as levee, dike or bund. Embankment is the term primarily used in this work, as that is the commonly used term in India. The terms “levee” and “dike” are used occasionally when this is relevant to the local context, for instance, in case of levees on the Mississippi river or coastal defence dikes in the Netherlands.
 
2
Only the filling of newly created reservoirs or an increase in the storage volume of existing reservoirs contributes to the moderation of continental runoff. Existing impoundments of water in reservoirs have no effect on sea level rise; more water must be removed from the cycle every year to counter other human activities that are contributing to the rise of sea levels.
 
4
Some of these were destroyed intentionally for the safety of structures downstream. Even the destruction of Banqiao Dam through an airstrike was requested; however 10 min later the Shimantan dam upstream collapsed, and 20 min after that, the Banqiao Dam collapsed on its own, thus removing the need for deliberate destruction.
 
5
See Chap.​ 4 for a detailed discussion.
 
6
This number only represents the 517 people directly killed due to the floods, which was verified by government agencies in order to pay compensation to families. Those who may have died later due to related but indirect causes like waterborne diseases, snake bites and unavailability of health care are not counted in government figures.
 
7
Also known as the Harappan civilisation as the first of its cities to be unearthed was located at Harappa.
 
8
See Chap.​ 3, especially Sect.​ 3.​2 for an extended discussion.
 
9
“Very Important Person”. In India this term usually indicates someone such as a senior political functionary like a government minister, the president or prime minister.
 
10
Save Narmada Movement.
 
11
See Sect.​ 2.​1 for a detailed background and discussion.
 
12
“Baba” was not his actual name but is a honorific that has a meaning similar to “Father”.
 
13
A spiritual hermitage, usually situated at a remote location.
 
14
The Supreme Court had also previously considered a case for contempt against her in 2000, but, at that time, decided not to initiate proceedings.
 
15
In the sense of “cognised environments” in which Jakob von Uexkll (1926, 1957) used this term; see Sect.​ 2.​4.​1 for elaboration.
 
16
The agency of non-human objects, labelled as actants, has been the central preoccupation of the broad theoretical umbrella of Actor Network Theory that has been inspired by the work of Bruno Latour (1996, 2005). Its application in the field of human geography has also become more frequent (Murdoch 1997, 1998); however, this direction has not been explored in the present work.
 
17
Although the prefix “technological” is dropped here, it is merely for convenience and readability. However, the use of the complete term is always implicit, and even when only “hydroscapes” is used, the intended meaning is always the one described in Sect. 1.3.1.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Introduction
verfasst von
Ravi Baghel
Copyright-Jahr
2014
Buch
River Control in India

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-04431-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-04432-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04432-3_1