Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia

Ravi Baghel is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Trier and is affiliated to the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany. Lea Stepan is a researcher at the Cluster of Excellence: "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at Heidelberg University, Germany. Joseph K. W. Hill is an assistant professor (visiting faculty) at the Department of Rural Management, Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.

1. Contextualising the Anthropocene: The Cultures, Practices and Politics of Water Knowledge in Asia Ravi Baghel and Lea Stepan 2. Governing Fisheries and Marine Radiation in Japan after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Leslie Mabon and Midori Kawabe 3. Trans-disciplinary Analysis of Australian-Indonesian Monsoon Epistemologies and their Implications on Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Sarah Casson 4. An Epistemological Re-visioning of Hybridity: Water/lands Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt 5. Science as Friend or Foe? Development Projects Undermining Farmer-managed Irrigation systems in Asia’s High Mountain Valleys Joseph K. W. Hill 6. Competing Epistemologies of Community-based Groundwater Recharge in Semi-arid North Rajasthan: Progress and Lessons for Groundwater-dependent Areas Chad Staddon and Mark Everard 7. Traditional Knowledge and Modernization of Water: The Story of a Desert Town Jaisalmer Chandrima Mukhopadhyay and Devika Hemalatha Devi 8. The Hydro-Ecological Self and the Community of Water: Anupam Mishra and the Epistemological Foundation of Water Traditions in Rajasthan Daniel Mishori and Ricki Levi 9. Epistemological Undercurrents: Delhi’s Water Crisis and the Role of the Urban Water Poor Heather O'Leary 10. Being-in-the-water, or Socialisation through Interactions with water in the Thermal Baths of Taipei Nathalie Boucher 11. In the Eye of the Storm: Water in the Cross-currents of Consumerism, Science and Tradition in India Neeraj Vedwan 12. Balinese Wet Rice Agriculture in Transition: Water Knowledge between a Sentient Ecology and the Pursuit of Development Lea Stepan 13. Water Flows Uphill to Power: Hydraulic Development Discourse in Thailand and Power Relations Surrounding Kingship and Statemaking David J.H. Blake 14. Waterscapes in Transition: Past and Present Reshaping of Sacred Water Places in Banaras Vera Lazzaretti 15. Resettling a River Goddess: Aspects of Local culture, Development and National Environmental Movements in Conflicting Discourses on Dhari Devi Temple and Srinagar Dam Project in Uttarakhand, India Frances A. Niebuhr