Lisa Bjorkman

Pipe Politics, Contested Waters

Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai

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Produktbeschreibung

In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Bjà rkman 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359692
• ISBN-10: 0822359693
• Artikelnr.: 41853048

Autorenporträt

Lisa Bjorkman

Inhaltsangabe

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