Ethnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu

Mounting evidence suggests that ethnic interactions damage cooperation in the provision of public goods, yet very few studies of collective action in common pool resource management have found strong evidence for the effects of ethnic diversity. Research on both public goods and common pool resource...

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Autor principal:	Timothy M. Waring
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2011
Materias:	cooperation irrigation ethnic diversity ethnic dominance India Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5ff72c115ed04bf9b20bc8c8f8fb4ba72021-12-02T11:02:15ZEthnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu1708-308710.5751/ES-04265-160401https://doaj.org/article/5ff72c115ed04bf9b20bc8c8f8fb4ba72011-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss4/art1/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087Mounting evidence suggests that ethnic interactions damage cooperation in the provision of public goods, yet very few studies of collective action in common pool resource management have found strong evidence for the effects of ethnic diversity. Research on both public goods and common pool resource management that does find negative ethnic effects on cooperation tend to ignore the importance of interethnic relationships, particularly ethnic inequality, stratification, or dominance. This study presents data from agricultural villages in Tamil Nadu's Palani Hills to test the importance of a range of ethnic effects using caste interactions in a traditional irrigation system. I provide corroborating evidence of a negative cooperative effect of ethnic diversity, but also demonstrate that factors of ethnic dominance such as hierarchical stratification and demographic dominance strongly determine outcomes in collective irrigation management. I argue that the most important measure of equity, irrigation access, is socially, technologically, and institutionally embedded, and demonstrate that the distribution of irrigation channels is explained by measures of inequality, such as wealth inequality, Dalit status, and demographic dominance.Timothy M. WaringResilience Alliancearticlecooperationirrigationethnic diversityethnic dominanceIndiaBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 16, Iss 4, p 1 (2011)
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spellingShingle	cooperation irrigation ethnic diversity ethnic dominance India Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Timothy M. Waring Ethnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu
description	Mounting evidence suggests that ethnic interactions damage cooperation in the provision of public goods, yet very few studies of collective action in common pool resource management have found strong evidence for the effects of ethnic diversity. Research on both public goods and common pool resource management that does find negative ethnic effects on cooperation tend to ignore the importance of interethnic relationships, particularly ethnic inequality, stratification, or dominance. This study presents data from agricultural villages in Tamil Nadu's Palani Hills to test the importance of a range of ethnic effects using caste interactions in a traditional irrigation system. I provide corroborating evidence of a negative cooperative effect of ethnic diversity, but also demonstrate that factors of ethnic dominance such as hierarchical stratification and demographic dominance strongly determine outcomes in collective irrigation management. I argue that the most important measure of equity, irrigation access, is socially, technologically, and institutionally embedded, and demonstrate that the distribution of irrigation channels is explained by measures of inequality, such as wealth inequality, Dalit status, and demographic dominance.
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title	Ethnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu
title_short	Ethnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu
title_full	Ethnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu
title_fullStr	Ethnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu
title_full_unstemmed	Ethnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu
title_sort	ethnic forces in collective action: diversity, dominance, and irrigation in tamil nadu
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Ethnic Forces in Collective Action: Diversity, Dominance, and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu

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