ISBN:
9780822375210
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Björkman, Lisa Pipe Politics, Contested Waters : Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
363.610954792
Keywords:
Indian Social Sciences book award
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Joseph W. Elder prize winner
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HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
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Mumbai (India) - Politics and government
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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Mumbai (India) - Politics and government
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Water-supply
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Waterworks
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Feldforschung
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Infrastrukturpolitik
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Wasserversorgung
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Mumbai
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Mumbai
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Wasserversorgung
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Infrastrukturpolitik
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Feldforschung
Abstract:
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, politics is often about water. - 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 Björkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "world class" 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, Björkman 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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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822375210
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822375210?locatt=mode:legacy
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822375210
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