Nikhil Anand

Hydraulic City

Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship and the rights through which to make demands on the state for public services emerges through the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3000 miles of pipe that bind them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362692
• ISBN-10: 0822362694
• Artikelnr.: 45053818

Autorenporträt

Nikhil Anand

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Water Stories  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Water Works  1
Interlude. A City in the Sea  25
1. Scare Cities  29
Interlude. Fieldwork  61
2. Settlement  65
Interlude. Renewing Water  95
3. Time Pé (On Time)  97
Interlude. Flood  127
4. Social Work  131
Interlude. River/Sewer  159
5. Leaks  161
Interlude. Jharna (Spring)  191
6. Disconnection  193
Interlude. Miracles  219
Conclusion  223
Notes 239
References  265
Index  289