TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baviskar, Amita Ed
TI  - Contested grounds : essays on nature, culture, and power 
SN  - 9780195695854
U1  - 333.7 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Delhi 
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Natural resources -- Political aspects -- Congresses
KW  - Natural resources--Political aspects
KW  - Natural resources -- Social aspects -- Congresses
KW  - natural resources
KW  - Natural resources--Social aspects
N1  - Contents
Acknowledgements vii
l. Introduction
AMITA BAVISKAR 1
2. Water and Waste: Nature, Productivity, and Colonialism in the Indus Basin
DAVID GILMARTIN 13
3. Contexts and Constructions of Scarcity
LYLA MEHTA 38
4. Environmental Insecurities: Geopolitics, Resources, and Conflict
SIMON DALBY 59
5. Investing in Nature around Sylhet: An Excursion into Geographical History
DAVID LUDDEN 77
6. Economies of Violence: More Oil, More Blood
MICHAEL WATTS 106
7. Natural Resources and Capitalist Frontiers
ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING 137
8. Cultural Theory, Climate Change, and Clumsiness
MICHAEL THOMPSON 158
9. Who's in Charge? Reflections on the Worldwide Displacement of Democratic Judgement by Expert
Assessments
STEVE RAYNER 17 4
10. Situating Resource Struggles: Concepts for Empirical Analysis
TANIA MURRAY Lr 193
References 217
Notes on Contributors 245
Index 246
ER  -