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Author Björkman, Lisa, 1977- author.

Title Pipe politics, contested waters : embedded infrastructures of millennial Mumbai / Lisa Björkman
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
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Subject Water-supply -- India -- Mumbai
Waterworks -- India -- Mumbai
Infrastructure (Economics) -- India -- Mumbai
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Politics and government
Water-supply
Waterworks
Wasserwirtschaft
Infrastruktur
Stadtplanung
Infrastruktur.
Politik.
Vattenförsörjning.
Vattenverk.
SUBJECT Mumbai (India) -- Politics and government
Subject India -- Mumbai
Mumbai
Indien -- Mumbai.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822375210
0822375214