[Sci-tech-public] STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk: Thursday, April 28th

[Debbie Meinbresse]

STS Brown Bag Lunch Talk


"Dams and the Technological Imaginary:
Lessons from the Krishna Valley in India"


Roopali Phadke
Postdoctoral Fellow, Kennedy School of Government


Thursday, April 28, 2005

12:00 noon, MIT, E51-191



Abstract
Among environmental movements in India, activists from the Krishna Valley 
have taken a distinctive approach toward promoting the participatory
development of water resources. In chronicling the evolution of the Krishna 
Valley movement, this presentation focuses on how political activists and
NGO-engineers have shaped a new model for large dam development. Through 
both political protests and the articulation of technical alternatives,
these activists are promoting a vision for sustainable agriculture that 
reclaims dams as "technologies of trust," signifying that it is possible to
build large scale water infrastructure that challenges drought without 
sacrificing human rights or ecological integrity.

Please join us this Thursday at noon.  Feel free to bring you 
lunch.  Coffee and dessert will be provided.


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-253-4062 
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