1 option
Pipe politics, contested waters : embedded infrastructures of millennial Mumbai / Lisa Björkman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Björkman, Lisa, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply--India--Mumbai.
- Water-supply.
- Waterworks--India--Mumbai.
- Waterworks.
- Infrastructure (Economics)--India--Mumbai.
- Infrastructure (Economics).
- Mumbai (India)--Politics and government.
- Mumbai (India).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375210
- 0822375214
- OCLC:
- 918912017
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.