I'm following suit with LilMilagro... and I thought this would be a good place for all the dam people to communicate our findings and whatnot through the duration of our research. AND this way maybe the groups can intermingle and share more resources that way. Yay for community!
Here some of my prelim research that I did the other day... it's not much but I'll do more soon...
http://www.dams.org/report/ - website where the world commissions report is, this is the full article that is required for us dam people to read, it may be helpful to other groups as well
http://www.emg.org.za/ - the environmental group that mediates between NGO's and the state
http://www.dams.org/commission/mandate.htm - world commission's website
http://www.narmada.org/sardar-sarovar/faq/whopays.html - interesting Q and A about who pays and benefits from dams in Narmada Valley
http://www.sardarsarovardam.org/ - one of the dams i think I'm going to focus on,
which dam(s) are other people focusing on?
OK that's it for now... what does everyone else have?
- J
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So, even though I am not in the dam group, I have been doing a lot of research on water for the advanced seminar class. Here is an amazing website that has some dam information buried in a report.
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/special-reports.htm
Also, I read Vandana Shiva's Water Wars - amazing book with information specific to the Dams
& Water - the Fate of Our Most Precious Resource - another great book that has specific dam information.
If folk want to borrow either of these books after this Friday (my final in my Advanced Seminar is that day), just drop me a line. Thanks for posting this info Jocie!
Oh and definitely check out the http://iucn.org - I know that it was assigned for the Forestry group, but it's an incredibly website and does have a lot of info about dams as well.
Peace,
Lil Milagro
Hey ya'll...
here are some websites I am looking at:
www.inspectionpanel.org.
http://www.flonnet.com/fl1611/16110040.htm
Thanks guys! This is all wonderful resources!
I'm having issues though, finding the specific policy like she said in order to see which policy created the Narmada social movement... does anyone have any tips on this?
((This is Jocie btw my login isnt working again))
Jocie, I looked through some of my Water Wars stuff and I found that the dam itself was a project primarily funded through the World Bank. The World Bank has pulled out or is thinking of pulling out because of the massive amounts of protest. I don't know if there is a specific state policy for the Narmada Dam project but I do know that it is U.N. funded project. I have some information - a tiny amount - I am sure that you have way more than I do but let me know if that's helpful or if you want me to bring my books on Wednesday so you can photocopy, potentially borrow after Friday. ~Peace~
Hey Dam people... :o)
So I've been thinking a lot about a lake that emptied this past summer in WI (close to where I'm from). This might not help with your research, but I think it's a good example of the multiple effects dams can have after they are constructed, esp. in the context of unforeseen weather conditions (WI experienced record precipitation this past year). Here is the story:
http://www2.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=760060
and the visual aid of what exactly happened:
http://www2.jsonline.com/multimedia/graphic.asp?graphic=http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/jun08/delton_061008_big.jpg
Even though the dam itself didn't break, it's interesting to think about how its presence plays a role (for example, I wonder if the land would have broken through if the original outlet was there instead of the dam?).
aha! OK, this is my last post for the night... BUT I just found an awesome article that is just what I was looking for via Ebscohost... people le tme know if you want it. The title is:
REVIEW ARTICLE
State, civil society and Sardar Sarovar
By- HAROON AKRAM-LODHI
Conflict and Collective Action: The Sardar Sarovar Project in India
Ranjit Dwivedi
Abingdon: Routledge, 2006
Hey dam people I found an interesting dissertation I thought I'd share the absrtact with ya'll if your interested in reading it lemme know.
Towards a subaltern earth ethics: Narmada Bachao Andolan as text
by Zachariah, George, Ph.D.,
Abstract (Summary)
This dissertation is an attempt to construct a subaltern earth ethics using the Narmada Bachao Andolan (The Save Narmada Movement), a social movement in India, that is involved in a historic struggle against the colonization of a river valley and the communities living there by a dam project. As a corrective to the dominant tendency in theological and ethical responses to the crisis of earth, where the dominant perception of the problem is universalized divorcing the distress of the earth from the struggles for survival of the communities at the margins, this dissertation proposes that the oppositional gaze and consciousness of the subaltern social movements can reclaim the moral agency of the communities and thereby engage in the construction of an alternative discourse and praxis. In that sense the subaltern social movements are "theological texts" which can inform us in the construction of a subaltern earth ethics.
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