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LAUSANNE SUMMER SCHOOL<br />
CACS <strong>EPFL</strong><br />
Wednesday 10 July<br />
Science, Technology and Medicines 2<br />
09:00 >12.30 The encultured brain<br />
Hans Peter Hertig and Roberto Caldera<br />
Discussion of a project on the interrelationship between science and culture recently<br />
launched by CACS. Presentation of research papers relevant for the project.<br />
12:30 >14:00 Lunch<br />
Natural Resources and Environment 1<br />
14:00 >16:30 Water as a politically contested resources:<br />
canal irrigation (reform) in India<br />
Peter Mollinga<br />
Water is a politically contested resource in Asia, as elsew<strong>here</strong>. This introductory<br />
session on the politics of water in post-Independence India will use Ramachandra<br />
Guha’s chapter “The Conquest of Nature” as background material. The session will<br />
address the everyday politics of daily water use, the politics of water policy formulation<br />
and implementation, federal and international hydropolitics, and, finally,<br />
how global politics is relevant to water resources management in India. Discussion<br />
and assignment linked to the video: Tailenders – you have to fight for water rights<br />
(32 minutes). The Tailenders case will be used to discuss the political economy of<br />
unequal water distribution in large scale irrigation, and subsequently of irrigation/<br />
water resources reform.<br />
Compulsory reading<br />
Han, S. and Northoff, G. (2008). “Culture-sensitive neural substrates of human cognition: A transcultural<br />
neuroimaging approach”. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, n°9, pp. 646–654.<br />
Guha, R., (2007). “The Conquest of Nature”. In India after Gandhi, chapter 10, Basingstoke and Oxford:<br />
Macmillan, pp. 209-231.<br />
Optional reading<br />
Blais, C., Jack, R. E., Scheepers, C., Fiset, D., & Caldara, R. (2008). “Culture shapes how we look at<br />
faces”. PLoS ONE, vol. 3, n° 8, e3022.<br />
Jack, R., Garrod, O., Yu, H., Caldara, R., & Schyns, P. G. (2012). “Facial expressions of emotion are not<br />
culturally universal”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 109, n° 19, pp. 7241-7244.<br />
Mollinga, P. (forthcoming 2013). “Canal irrigation and the hydrosocial cycle. The morphogenesis of contested<br />
water control in the Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal, South India”. Geoforum. (The Special issue<br />
will appear in October http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=27).<br />
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