Bjorkman Lisa Bjorkman

Pipe Politics, Contested Waters (eBook, PDF)

Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social SciencesDespite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial resources. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Bjorkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "e;world class"e; business center has wreaked havoc on the city's water pipes. In rich ethnographic detail, Pipe Politics explores how the everyday work of getting water animates and inhabits a penumbra of infrastructural activity-of business, brokerage, secondary markets, and sociopolitical networks-whose workings are reconfiguring and rescaling political authority in the city. Mumbai's increasingly illegible and volatile hydrologies, Bjorkman argues, are lending infrastructures increasing political salience just as actual control over pipes and flows becomes contingent on dispersed and intimate assemblages of knowledge, power, and material authority. These new arenas of contestation reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake Mumbai in the image of Shanghai or Singapore and gesture instead toward the highly contested futures and democratic possibilities of the actually existing city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375210
• Artikelnr.: 54791713

Autorenporträt

Lisa Björkman

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