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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English |
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Print version record |
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Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences |
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digitized 2019. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Water-supply -- India -- Mumbai
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Waterworks -- India -- Mumbai
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- India -- Mumbai
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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Politics and government
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Water-supply
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Waterworks
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Wasserwirtschaft
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Infrastruktur
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Stadtplanung
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Infrastruktur.
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Politik.
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Vattenförsörjning.
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Vattenverk.
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Mumbai (India) -- Politics and government
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India -- Mumbai
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Mumbai
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Indien -- Mumbai.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780822375210 |
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0822375214 |
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