Overview
- Uses strong ethnographic and historical research to illuminate an important but widely-neglected topic – the role of water in city life
- Uniquely moves between culturalist, political-economic and materialist approaches to thinking about and with water
- Provides an especially lively portrait of city waters – revealing its complexity and slipperiness in a concrete manner
- Carefully considers both the democratic or democratizing potentials and uses of water, as well as to the fraught dilemmas which surround it – including those of climate change and scarcity
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“This book is an important intervention in how we think about the political, social and ethical imperatives of water’s role in contemporary urban life and a great contribution to academic framing of the liquid city as both socio-technical in its complexities and an active protagonist in transforming the metropolis.” (Professor Michael Keith, Centre on Migration Policy and Society, University of Oxford)
“Thinking about the place of water in cities makes us ask different questions about the nature and quality city life. In this elegant and insightful book Sophie Watson shows us what we learn as a result from the politics of cleanliness to the pleasures of public bathing. A book full of originality and wonder.” (Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London)
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Book Title: City Water Matters
Book Subtitle: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water
Authors: Sophie Watson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7892-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7891-1Published: 23 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7894-2Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7892-8Published: 29 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 216
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Human Geography