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Dammed and the Damned: Draining the Bucket Dry

Steiger, Carla
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278962906

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2010, Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, International and Comparative Politics.
This thesis investigates how people displaced from the construction of large dams in seek environmental justice. I studied the importance of regime type, the creation of protest groups and the formation of alliances with national, international organizations, and the media. In a comparison between protest movements against the Three Gorges Dam in China and the Sardar Sarovar Dam in India, displaced populations suffered from loss of community, livelihood, and health and were victimized by corrupt actors that supported the dams. The rapid economic development of these two countries emerged as a major point of comparison between the two. Regime type was notable in that it informed the structure of the protest movements, but was not a major determinant of the end results if the protestation. Both countries had avenues for protests. National and international NGOs and the media gave the protesters a voice in cessation of building destructive new dams. Protest movements also influenced the dissenting opinions of some politicians regarding large water infrastructure projects.
Laura Luehrmann, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Sirisha Naidu, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pramod Kantha, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
177 p.
Political Science
social protest; Sardar Sarovar Dam; Three Gorges Dam; environmental justice

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  • Steiger, C. (2010). Dammed and the Damned: Draining the Bucket Dry [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278962906

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Steiger, Carla. Dammed and the Damned: Draining the Bucket Dry. 2010. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278962906.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Steiger, Carla. "Dammed and the Damned: Draining the Bucket Dry." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1278962906

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