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Resource, Rules and Technology:Capturing Dynamics of Building Water Users’ Association

Researcher: Esha Shah

Through a case study of an irrigation association formed among farmers irrigating their land from a tank located in the Bijapur district of northern Karnataka, this paper tries to capture the dynamics of the building of civil society

The paper argues that the debate on community based natural resource management overly focuses on social relations and gives scant space to the structuring influence of ecological and technological materiality in shaping the contours of community formation. The formation of community based water users’ association is explored in order to understand the interplay between the structuring influence of ecology and newly introduced technology and farmers’ agency in strategically transforming resource, rules and technology.

Published in Vishwa Ballabh, ed., Governance of Water: Issues, Challenges, and Strategies

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