Community Formation, 'Ideal' Villages and Watershed Development in Western India

Priya Sangameswaran

Journal of Development Studies, 2008, vol. 44, issue 3, 384-408

Abstract: This paper discusses how the vision of an 'ideal village' is used in the construction of feelings of community in a watershed development project in India. What constitutes the notion of idealness and how it emerges in a particular context is determined by a number of factors. The discussion of the working of two aspects of the project - voluntary labour and watershed-plus measures - brings out the usefulness of such a vision in community-formation, even though different actors involved in these aspects are also motivated by factors other than idealness. Further, the successful working of these aspects also indirectly re-enforces the notion of idealness, although critical engagement with it is sometimes limited by the focus on community-making.

Date: 2008
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