Community Formation, ‘Ideal’ Villages and Watershed Development in Western India
探讨了印度一个流域开发项目中‘理想村庄’愿景如何用于构建社区感，分析了志愿劳动和流域附加措施在社区形成中的作用。
Abstract This paper discusses how the vision of an ‘ideal village’ is used in the construction of feelings of community in a watershed development project in India. What constitutes the notion of idealness and how it emerges in a particular context is determined by a number of factors. The discussion of the working of two aspects of the project – voluntary labour and watershed-plus measures – brings out the usefulness of such a vision in community-formation, even though different actors involved in these aspects are also motivated by factors other than idealness. Further, the successful working of these aspects also indirectly re-enforces the notion of idealness, although critical engagement with it is sometimes limited by the focus on community-making.