Hydraulic City
Anand, Nikhil,
Hydraulic City : water and the infrastructures of citizenship in Mumbai / Nikhil Anand - New Delhi :Oxford University Press 2017 - xiv, 296 pages 24cm.
Interlude. A city in the sea --
Chapter 1. Scare cities --
Interlude. Fieldwork --
Chapter 2. Settlement --
Interlude. Renewing water --
Chapter 3. Time Pé (on time) --
Interlude. Flood --
Chapter 4. Social work --
Interlude. River/sewer --
Chapter 5. Leaks --
Interlude. Jharna (spring) --
Chapter 6. Disconnection --
Interlude. Miracles.
n Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition--what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"--Is incremental, intermittent, and reversible.
9780199477654
International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Social problems & social services
Other social problems & services
Infrastructure (Economics) -- India -- Mumbai.
Water-supply -- India -- Mumbai.
Water security -- India -- Mumbai.
India -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
363.610 ANA
Hydraulic City : water and the infrastructures of citizenship in Mumbai / Nikhil Anand - New Delhi :Oxford University Press 2017 - xiv, 296 pages 24cm.
Interlude. A city in the sea --
Chapter 1. Scare cities --
Interlude. Fieldwork --
Chapter 2. Settlement --
Interlude. Renewing water --
Chapter 3. Time Pé (on time) --
Interlude. Flood --
Chapter 4. Social work --
Interlude. River/sewer --
Chapter 5. Leaks --
Interlude. Jharna (spring) --
Chapter 6. Disconnection --
Interlude. Miracles.
n Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition--what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"--Is incremental, intermittent, and reversible.
9780199477654
International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Social problems & social services
Other social problems & services
Infrastructure (Economics) -- India -- Mumbai.
Water-supply -- India -- Mumbai.
Water security -- India -- Mumbai.
India -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
363.610 ANA
