Scarcity and the State in the Midst of Climate and Economic Crises: Governing Water in India

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¹ All examples and quotes in this talk are from Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform and the State (University of Washington Press, 2022) (published as an open access book). This essay is a condensed transcript of the keynote address recorded via zoom.

² Robert I. McDonald, Katherine Weber, Julie Padowski, Martina Florke, Christof Schneider, Pamela A. Green, Thomas Gleeson, Stephanie Eckman, Bernhard Lehner, Deborah Balk, Timothy Boucher, Gunther Grill, and Mark Montgomery, “Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure,” Global Environmental Change 27 (2014): 96.

³ Leela Fernandes (ed.), Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State (NY: New York University Press, 2018).

⁴ Leela Fernandes, Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform and the State (University of Washington Press, 2022).

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⁶ Leela Fernandes, Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform and the State (University of Washington Press, 2022).

⁷ Leela Fernandes, Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform and the State (University of Washington Press, 2022).

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¹¹ Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero, Kathryn Furlong, and Jeimy Arias, “Complicating neoliberalization and decentralization: the non-linear experience of Colombian water supply, 1909–2012,” International Journal of Water Resources Development 32, no. 2 (2015): 173.

¹² Leela Fernandes, Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform and the State (University of Washington Press, 2022).

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Leela Fernandes

Leela Fernandes is the Glenda Dickerson Collegiate Professor in Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She previously taught at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and Oberlin College and is currently the South Asia Editor of the journal Critical Asian Studies.