In this paper we compare and contrast the view on poverty of lay people, who are affected by
the policies, with that of academics and policy‐makers. Drawing from fieldwork in a village in …

Small towns in the global South face huge infrastructure deficits in sanitation due to the lack
of technical, institutional and financial capacity to establish treatment systems. This …

The aim of my research is to explore the transformation of the physical and social
landscapes in Kuttanad, which is closely related to the political and economic dynamisms in …

Average income per hectare from rice cultivation in Kerala is the third highest in India, with
only the green-revolution States of Haryana and Punjab reporting higher incomes. This …

A passionate public debate was triggered in Kerala, South India in July 1997 following a
Luddite-type agitation by the agricultural labourers destroying the crops and assets in …

Small towns in the global South face huge infrastructure deficits in sanitation due to the lack
of technical, institutional and financial capacity to establish treatment systems. This …

'I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much
with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man …

Governance in the current context demands a plurality of actors in decision making drawn
from the spheres of state, civil society and business. There is an inherent assumption of …