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1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) |
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Interlude. A city in the sea -- Chapter 1. Scare cities -- Interlude. Fieldwork -- Chapter 2. Settlement -- Interlude. Renewing water -- Chapter 3. Time Pé (on time) -- Interlude. Flood -- Chapter 4. Social work -- Interlude. River/sewer -- Chapter 5. Leaks -- Interlude. Jharna (spring) -- Chapter 6. Disconnection -- Interlude. Miracles |
| Summary |
In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition--what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"--Is incremental, intermittent, and reversible |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-288) and index |
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In English |
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Water security -- India -- Mumbai
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Water-supply -- India -- Mumbai
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- India -- Mumbai
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Marginality, Social -- India -- Mumbai
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Social integration -- India -- Mumbai
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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Anthropology.
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Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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Marginality, Social
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Social conditions
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Social integration
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Water security
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Water-supply
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Infrastruktur
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Wasserversorgung
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Lebensbedingungen
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India -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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India
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India -- Mumbai
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Mumbai
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016039150 |
| ISBN |
9780822373599 |
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0822373599 |
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