Pipe Politics, Contested Waters

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In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Bjorkman 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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ISBN-13: 9780822359500
ISBN-10: 0822359502
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

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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

Notă biografică

Lisa Björkman is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at University of Louisville, and Research Scholar at CETREN (Transregional Research Network), University of Göttingen.

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