Social Power and the Urbanization of Water : flows of power / E Swyngedouw
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TextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New DelhiSeries: Oxford geographical and environmental studiesPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004Description: xii, 209 pages 24cmISBN: 9780198233916Subject(s): Social Problems and Social Services | Other social problems and services | Municipal water supply -- Economic aspects -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Water Supply | Eau -- Approvisionnement urbain -- Aspect économique -- Équateur -- Guayaquil | Wasserversorgung | Guayaquil | GuayaquilDDC classification: 363.6109 SWY | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Social Power and the Urbanization of Water takes the circulation of water as a lense through which to analyse how the natural and social fuse together in the process of urbanization. In addition, excavating the circulation of water provides a vehicle to examine the relations between social, political, and economic power which give structure to the urbanization process. These power relations become embodied in and expressed by the particular forms through which water becomes urban. This analysis, in turn, allows light to be cast on who controls the transformation and appropriation of nature and the city's environment. The city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, provides the empirical background for this analysis. Historical political-ecological research is combined with an analysis of key contemporary power brokers who organize a highly uneven and deeply unjust urban water circulation system."--Jacket
Social Power and the Urbanization of Water takes the circulation of water as a lense through which to analyse how the natural and social fuse together in the process of urbanization. In addition, excavating the circulation of water provides a vehicle to examine the relations between social, political, and economic power which give structure to the urbanization process. These power relations become embodied in and expressed by the particular forms through which water becomes urban. This analysis, in turn, allows light to be cast on who controls the transformation and appropriation of nature and the city's environment. The city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, provides the empirical background for this analysis. Historical political-ecological research is combined with an analysis of key contemporary power brokers who organize a highly uneven and deeply unjust urban water circulation system."--Jacket
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