E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten
Björkman / Lisa Bjorkman Pipe Politics, Contested Waters
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7521-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7521-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Embedded Infrastructures 1
1. We Got Stuck in Between: Unmapping the Distribution Network 21
2. The Slum and Building Industry: Marketizing Urban Development 62
3. You Can't Stop Development: Hydraulic Shambles 82
4. It Was Like That from the Beginning: Becoming a Slum 98
5. No Hydraulics Are Possible: Brokering Water Knowledge 128
6. Good Doesn't Mean You're Honest: Corruption 165
7. If Water Comes It's Because of Politics: Power, Authority, and Hydraulic Spectacle 198
Conclusion: Pipe Politics 227
Appendix: Department of Hydraulic Engineering 235
Notes 237
References 267
Index 277