Lisa Björkman

Pipe Politics, Contested Waters

Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Lisa Björkman is Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at University of Louisville, and Research Scholar at CETREN (Transregional Research Network), University of Göttingen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359500
• ISBN-10: 0822359502
• Artikelnr.: 41855609

Autorenporträt

Lisa Bjorkman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Embedded Infrastructures  1
1. We Got Stuck in Between: Unmapping the Distribution Network  21
2. The Slum and Building Industry: Marketizing Urban Development  62
3. You Can't Stop Development: Hydraulic Shambles  82
4. It Was Like That from the Beginning: Becoming a Slum  98
5. No Hydraulics Are Possible: Brokering Water Knowledge  128
6. Good Doesn't Mean You're Honest: Corruption  165
7. If Water Comes It's Because of Politics: Power, Authority, and Hydraulic
Spectacle  198
Conclusion: Pipe Politics  227
Appendix: Department of Hydraulic Engineering  235
Notes  237
References  267
Index  277