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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Björkman, Lisa, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Services d'eau > Inde > Mumbai.
Eau > Approvisionnement > Inde > Mumbai.
Vattenverk.
Vattenförsörjning.
Politik.
Infrastruktur.
Stadtplanung
Infrastruktur
Wasserwirtschaft
Waterworks.
Water-supply.
Politics and government.
Infrastructure (Economics)
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Infrastructure (Economics) > India > Mumbai.
Waterworks > India > Mumbai.
Water-supply > India > Mumbai.
Indien > Mumbai.
Mumbai
India > Mumbai.
Mumbai (India) > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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