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

By: Publication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2010.Description: xvi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780801474644 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
  • 0801474647 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD4456 .B35 2010
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.

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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