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Resisting Dams and ‘Development’: Contemporary Significance of the Campaign against the Narmada Projects in India

Studies on environmental campaigns in developing countries tend to highlight their grassroots character and view them as producing visions of a sustainable future. In reviewing the campaign against the Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Projects in India this contribution advances two related arguments: first, that the success of the campaign is largely because of resources mobilised in multi-level networks and, second, that the contemporary significance of the movement against the projects lies in the abilities of actors to politicise uncertainties and risks surrounding these projects. The analysis leads to the conclusion that ‘risk politics’ in such movements can have national and global policy implications as they draw attention to perceived gaps in policy frameworks and appraisal methods of large river valley interventions.