scholarly journals Understanding the Relationship between Water Infrastructure and Socio-Political Configurations: A Case Study from Sri Lanka

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kavindra Paranage
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Management ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Downstream Communities

Academic scholarship in the social sciences has, in recent years, documented how water management infrastructure connects and disconnects people and flows, portraying and defining inequalities. The present work contributes to advancing this perspective by undertaking a case study to comparatively examine two irrigation-based water infrastructure systems in Sri Lanka: the tank cascade system and the surface irrigation system. The analysis demonstrates that differences in the layout of the water infrastructure directly contribute to the ways in which downstream communities are socially, economically and politically configured. Specifically, the arrangement of water infrastructure influences the degree of water users’ dependence on each other, the degree of social stratification between head-end and tail-end farmers, and the degree to which water is regarded as an ‘economic’ object. It can be concluded that the technical system of water infrastructure is inextricably bound to society and should, therefore, be considered a socio-material assemblage. Thus, it is important that policy decisions on water infrastructure management treat the structuring of infrastructure as experimental and potentially reversible.

scholarly journals The Existence of Multiple Hydro-Mentalities and their Implications for Water Governance: A Case Study from Sri Lanka

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2043
Author(s):  
Kavindra Paranage ◽  
Nancy Yang
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Alternative Position ◽  
Downstream Communities ◽  
Technical Solutions

Traditionally, the literature on water management has considered water from a techno-realist point of view by focusing on finding the most effective technical solutions to distribute the largest quantities of water among populations. This paper takes an alternative position by suggesting that particular “ways” of managing water are culturally embedded and that water management practices stem from an underlying hydro-mentality among water users and system designers. To this end, we explore two different water systems in Sri Lanka and argue that each system is underpinned by a particular hydro-mentality that influences the ways in which water is managed by downstream communities.

Management and environmental constraints to rice yield within a village irrigation system ? A case study from Sri Lanka

GeoJournal ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Dal�us ◽  
O. Palm ◽  
K. Sandell ◽  
S.N. Jayawardena ◽  
G.D. Siripala
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Rice Yield ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Environmental Constraints ◽  
System A

scholarly journals Adaptation to climate variability in Sri Lanka: a case study of the Huruluwewa Irrigation System in the Dry Zone

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. A. Amarasinghe ◽  
G. Amarnath ◽  
N. Alahacoon ◽  
M. Aheeyar ◽  
K. Chandrasekharan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Dry Zone

scholarly journals Anime tourism in Italy: Travelling to the locations of the Studio Ghibli films

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-250
Author(s):  
Giulia Lavarone ◽  
Marco Bellano
Keyword(s):  
Fan Studies ◽  
Media Sociology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Studio Ghibli ◽  
Japanese Animation ◽  
The Relationship

Film-induced tourism, intended as travelling to places where films and TV series have been shot or set, has been extensively studied in the last two decades in several disciplinary fields. For example, the term ‘media pilgrimage’ emerged in media sociology to highlight the sacred dimension these practices may assume, while fan studies have focused on the narrative of affection built upon specific places. Calling forth the relationship between film and landscape, these phenomena have been also explored in the light of film semiotics and media geography. In the past decade, the representation of landscape and the construction of the sense of place in animation benefited from increased scholarly attention; however, the links between tourism and animation still appear under-explored. Japanese animation, because of its prominent use of real locations as the basis for the building of its worlds and the tendency of its fanbases to take action (even in the form of animation-oriented tourism), is an especially promising field, in this respect. In the last fifteen years, a debate on ‘content(s) tourism’ has involved the Japanese government as well as academic scholarship, referring to a wide variety of contents, from novels to films and TV series, anime, manga, and games. The article presents a case study: a discussion of the experience of anime tourists who visited the Italian locations featured in the films by the world-famous animator and director Miyazaki Hayao, especially in Castle in the Sky (1986) and Porco Rosso (1992). The experiences of anime tourists were collected from images and texts shared through the social network Twitter.

Water Quality Variation in a Tank Cascade Irrigation System: A Case Study from Malagane Cascade, Sri Lanka

2010 ◽  
pp. 1345-1353
Author(s):  
Kushani Mahatantila ◽  
Rohana Chandrajith ◽  
H.A.H. Jayasena ◽  
Sampath Marasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
System A ◽  
Water Quality Variation ◽  
Quality Variation

Conceptualizing Occupational Prestige: An Empirical Case Study from Iran

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Abdollahyan ◽  
Hooshang Nayebi
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
Complex Society ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

Abstract This paper attempts to present a theoretically justified methodological concept of occupational prestige as one of the common indexes of social stratification. In order to do that, we first critically review Davis and Moor's theory of social stratification and argue that social stratification, defined as “systematically unequal distribution of symbolic and material rewards among social positions”, is conceptually distinct from Marx's conception of social class. Davis and Moor's concept of social stratification has a functional necessity in any complex society, in the sense that no position is expected to remain vacant, and that qualified people are conditioned into positions. The determinants for ranking positions in such a context are the degree of specialty required to perform duties related to positions, or the level of the authority related to each position. Secondly, we claim that the prestige structure of the social positions, which is the stable symbolic dimension of stratification and is correlated closely with its material dimension, is indeed the representative of the whole social stratification and that the structure of occupational prestige is the index of the former. In conclusion, we verify our claims by providing empirical evidence that has resulted from our own research in Iran or that comes from similar research carried out by other scholars across the world.

The Care Drain and its Effects on the Families Left Behind: A Case Study of Sri Lanka

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devoushi Cooray
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Psychosocial Wellbeing ◽  
Female Migration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Deficit

As growing numbers of women from the global South leave behind their own families to take up domestic work in wealthier countries, this shift in care and emotional resources has created a “care drain” in many migrant-exporting nations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the families of migrant domestic workers in Sri Lanka, this paper examines how the care deficit caused by low-skilled female migration affects family structures, household relations, and the psychosocial wellbeing of migrants’ families. Highlighting the tension between the economic benefits and social costs of migration, the overall findings of this study suggest that despite economic benefits, low-skilled female migration often works to the social and emotional detriment of the families left behind.

Social stratification and access to resources in the alluvial tract of Ajay River situated in Ketugram block, Burdwan (W.B.): A case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-156
Author(s):  
Koyel Paul ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Structural Control ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Productive Land ◽  
Privileged Class ◽  
Composite Scores

Every plot of a region in India has its productivity. Access to land is by and large determined by the prevailing social structure. Most productive land is usually owned by the privileged class in the social hierarchy. The present study examines if this structural control on land accessibility continues in the present times despite changes to the Indian social structure. A rural area in the Ajay River basin in West Bengal is purposively selected for the purpose to empirically examine the relationship. A micro-level survey has been carried out for the ownership distribution of land unit, the productivity of land, the land use. Availability of resources, their qualitative distributions is quantified through composite scores to arrive at meaningful conclusions. The study finds that social structure continues to act as a powerful force in access to resources but it is independent of the quality of life of the inhabitants.

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