Pipe politics, contested waters : embedded infrastructures of millennial Mumbai /

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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, po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Björkman, Lisa, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Water-supply > India > Mumbai.
Waterworks > India > Mumbai.
Infrastructure (Economics) > India > Mumbai.
Eau > Approvisionnement > Inde > Mumbai.
Services d'eau > Inde > Mumbai.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Politics and government
Water-supply
Waterworks
Wasserwirtschaft
Infrastruktur
Stadtplanung
Infrastruktur.
Politik.
Vattenförsörjning.
Vattenverk.
Mumbai (India) > Politics and government.
India > Mumbai
Mumbai
Indien > Mumbai.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: embedded infrastructures
  • "We got stuck in between" : unmapping the distribution network
  • "The slum and building industry" : marketizing urban development
  • "You can't stop development" : hydraulic shambles
  • "It was like that from the beginning" : becoming a slum
  • "No hydraulics are possible" : brokering water knowledge
  • "Good doesn't mean you're honest" : corruption
  • "If water comes it's because of politics" : power, authority, and hydraulic spectacle
  • Conclusion: pipe politics
  • Appendix: Department of Hydraulic Engineering.

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