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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 497–517.
Published: 01 December 2014
... and rumor. The opacities of the water distribution system, it is shown, mean that water-related risk does not map easily onto a socioeconomic geography. Expanding the scope of research beyond moments of spectacular breakdown thus allows for attention to the means by which everyday risks of shortage...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 463–472.
Published: 01 December 2010
... as an important Central Eurasian entrepôt. Lying
on the frontier between the steppe and the sown, with the Hindu Kush to the south
and the Oxus River to the north, the city was well cultivated, with water distributed through a
system of eighteen canals that spanned its valleys. Balkh was also...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1983) 3 (2): 15–30.
Published: 01 August 1983
... settled in the village. They have
agricultural produce, 35% was sold for developed a complex water distribution
cash w!F ile 17% was used for in-kind pay- system, evolved over the centuries, by
ments. The rest, almost half the produc...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 24–34.
Published: 01 May 2020
... of this and other agencies and organizations reside and from which they administer food and water distribution, medical aid, and social service operations—is composed of buildings and other structures designed for durability: an architecture of masonry rather than textiles ( fig. 4 ). The presence of enabling...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (1): 12–25.
Published: 01 May 1989
... of India’s semilandless.
landlease. It also encourages them to mechanize the The strategies commonly advocated for modifying
peak operations, reducing the labor-intensity of even the distributive effects of agrarian capitalism in India in-
the water-seed-fertilizer inputs that are used in achiev- volve...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 454–475.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... The distribute electricity among the mines for a period
protracted negotiations over this latter agreement, of one year before turning it over to the Mysore
which concluded with a treaty in 1892,29 presaged state.32 Six units, each with a capacity of 750 kW,
the bitter disputes over shared river waters...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 565–583.
Published: 01 December 2020
... small and irregular supply of canal water” during the previous year they would have had more labor and effort devoted to improving the garden's appearance than in the more routine tasks of watering and plant distribution. 66 Lahore's extreme temperatures and weather conditions, especially...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 437–439.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., the mechanical arrangements and interconnected equipment that are meant to provide
populations with potable water and take away their waste, that distribute supplies of electricity or gas, that
facilitate the mass movement of people, energy, and goods, or that are built to contain and block those...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (1): 47–50.
Published: 01 May 1986
... Along with saving and expanding the forests, the issue of the use
destroyed. Now in order to destroy insects previously controlled by
and distribution of water is of extreme importance. OnJy a peoples'
being eaten by the birds...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 176–190.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... The first body of scholarship, influenced by actor network theory and the Deleuzian concept of assemblage, shows how infrastructures are centrally implicated in social well-being because they are sociotechnical systems that distribute staples such as water, food, and electricity. 11 In the second body...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 96–103.
Published: 01 August 1992
... measures planned for 5483 hectares of ling the distribution of water. Drip irrigation has been
non-forest catchment area comprise contour bunding, envisaged for saline areas. In addition, there are provi-
terracing, nala plugging and pasture development. The sions for tubewells at various places so...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 2–23.
Published: 01 May 2017
... practices, I suggest that fishworkers and fisheries managers enact multiple, relatively distinct versions of food, fish, bodies of water, and fisheries. Attending to this multiplicity is crucial for rendering plausible already existing alternatives to an overdetermined future of death, depravity...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 1986
...Shelley Feldman; Florence E. McCarthy 1986 REFERENCES Davies , Miranda . [Compiler] ( 1983 ). Third World-Second Sex . London: Zed Books Ltd; Totowa, NJ: Biblio Distribution Center. Holt , Alix . [Translator] ( 1977 ). Selected Writings of Alexandre Kollontal . London...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 680–690.
Published: 01 December 2007
... stuck to the existence of myriad
problems perceived as constraints to city life such as difficulties related to housing, insufficient
supply of potable water, poor drainage and waste disposal, urban transport difficulty, and all...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 88–105.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... Given that dairy and alfalfa farms both require an immense amount of water to maintain, what explains these developments in the deserts of Arizona and Arabia? The answers are historical and contemporary, demanding an approach to “desert geopolitics” that explains how environmental and political...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1983) 3 (2): 31–44.
Published: 01 August 1983
... and for the Congress Party. Production could
starvation for India, the Indian leaders thus be increased without addressing the
desperately looked for outside assistance. issues of skewed distribution of land,
The Western countries, primarily the water...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 362–377.
Published: 01 August 2024
... laid out his vision for the future. He imagined an Iraq where the government dug new canals to irrigate the land, distributing the waters “that bring life and blessings” all around; an Iraq where land was distributed to settle the population; an Iraq with villages that had schools and mosques; an Iraq...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 99–108.
Published: 01 August 1995
... conditions of the pastoralists have deteriorated fur-
pipeline grids to the vast needy areas; nor of com- ther with the onset of the Green Revolution whereby
prehensive water schemes to carry water from canals not only has there been a consistent environmental
to the distribution areas. The plans...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 35–44.
Published: 01 August 1993
...
specifically examines two related but not necessar- the relative autonomy that is shared by many but
ily coterminous events in Nepal-the design and not all mountain communities. As Nepal’s rural
implementation of large area regional development systems of production and distribution connect
projects...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1983) 3 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 May 1983
... as "evictions". When
by international agencies such as the tenants are harassed into leaving by being
World Bank, and state subsidies provided given an excessively bad tract of land, or
to large farmers. An additional factor their water is withheld, or when...
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