| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Oxford geographical and environmental studies |
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Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Power of Water -- pt. I. Flows of Power: Nature, Power, and the City -- 1. Hybrid Waters: On Water, Nature, and Society -- 2. The City in a Glass of Water: Circulating Water, Circulating Power -- 3. Water, Power, and the Andean City: Situating Guayaquil -- pt. II. Social Power and the Urbanization of Water in Guayaquil, Ecuador -- 4. The Urban Conquest of Water in Guayaquil: 1880-1945: Cocoa and the Urban Water Dream |
| Summary |
"Social Power and the Urbanization of Water takes the circulation of water as a lense through which to analyse how the natural and social fuse together in the process of urbanization. In addition, excavating the circulation of water provides a vehicle to examine the relations between social, political, and economic power which give structure to the urbanization process. These power relations become embodied in and expressed by the particular forms through which water becomes urban. This analysis, in turn, allows light to be cast on who controls the transformation and appropriation of nature and the city's environment. The city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, provides the empirical background for this analysis. Historical political-ecological research is combined with an analysis of key contemporary power brokers who organize a highly uneven and deeply unjust urban water circulation system."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-202) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Municipal water supply -- Economic aspects -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil
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Municipal water supply -- Social aspects -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Water Supply.
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Municipal water supply -- Economic aspects
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Municipal water supply -- Social aspects
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Wasserversorgung
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Soziale Probleme
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Ecuador -- Guayaquil
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Guayaquil
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004049212 |
| ISBN |
1423767764 |
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9781423767763 |
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9786610758807 |
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6610758808 |
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9780198233916 |
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0198233914 |
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0191543799 |
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9780191543791 |
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9780191916519 |
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019191651X |
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