Forced Displacement A Gendered Analysis of the Tehri Dam Project
Forced Displacement A Gendered Analysis of the Tehri Dam Project
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强迫位移 Tehri 大坝项目的性别分析
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2012
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Vandana Asthana
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Vandana Asthana
Development induced displacement has brought about a profound economic and socio-cultural disruption to the affected communities. Under conditions of deprivation and marginalization, the rights and entitlements of those forced to move and fundamentally change their traditional means of livelihood have been lost. They lose their social networks, cultural identity, sense of well being and existing modes of production. These processes of impoverishment question the developmental model that perpetuates displacement causing human misery to the displaced communities world over. The premise of using gender as a category for analysis in the effects of developmentinduced displacement is based on the assumption that women experience displacement and relocation in a particularly gendered way. This occurs due to the gendered division of labor that has arisen from socio-historical processes of men‘s traditional incorporation in wage earning and performing labor oriented tasks while women remain on the land jobs and its management on a daily basis. The insensitivity of the regimes constructing large developmental projects in the state has created conditions where women have been the greatest sufferers. These projects characterized by formal centrally managed systems, displace informal, decentralized and participatory structures that form part of daily lives of women. Such conditions push huge numbers of women into marginal environments where critically low level of water supplies, shortage of fuels, and over-utilization of arable lands have deprived them of their livelihoods, cultural identity and sense of well being. Resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) policies expose the male biases inherent in the insensitivity of the governments towards needs of women. This paper examines the lived experiences of displaced women and the current practices in displacement. The arguments presented in the paper are based on the empirical findings of research that looks at women displaced by the construction of Tehri dam in the Bhagirathi