ABSTRACT
Large development projects do not exist in a vacuum. In assessing developmental outcomes and, more specifically, towards understanding the dynamics of resource allocation, Bardhan argues that conflicts over scarce resources involve three dominant groups. The crises and contradictions in uneven development entail costs and risks for a large segment of the population. Dissatisfaction with the Marxist projection of the modernisation crisis and political responses led Omvedt to explore contradictions between relations of production and conditions of production-following O'Connor. Thus, crisis formation is by and large the by-product of the politics of democracy and the economics of dominance. In fact, the environmental alternative is seen as part of larger discourse on alternative development gaining ground in which issues pertaining to rights, identities, local knowledge and democratisation are raised by grassroots NGO movements.
