Thematic Section

Development (2008) 51, 37–41. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100443

From the Groundwater Up: Asserting water rights in India

Georgina Drew

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Abstract

Georgina Drew looks at organized civil society resistance to big multinational corporations monopoly over water that build on the realities of communities in Mehdiganj, India. She argues that place-based oppositions continue to be important and that local fights for the right to water and development will continue to inform the larger movement against water privatization.

Keywords:

place-based politics, Coca Cola, anti-water-privatization movements, market economy, community rights