Privatizing water : governance failure and the world's urban water crisis /
by Karen Bakker
- New Delhi Orient Blackswan 2011
- xvi, 303p. : ill., maps 24cm (Hb)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Governance failure : reframing the urban water supply "crisis" -- Material emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water -- Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate -- Citizens without a city : the techno-politics of urban water governance -- Protesting privatization : transnational struggles over the human right to water -- Commons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management -- Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governance.
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ENG-103859
Municipal water supply--Political aspects. Water utilities--Deregulation. Privatization. Right to water.