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Privatizing water : governance failure and the world's urban water crisis / by Karen Bakker

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi Orient Blackswan 2011Description: xvi, 303p. : ill., maps 24cm (Hb)ISBN:
  • 9788125043218
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.61 Bak/Pri
Contents:
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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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.