Hydraulic City
Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai
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Word Count
78,000 words, Guess
Page Count
312 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehydrauliccity00anan
- ISBN-100822362546
- ISBN-139780822362548
- Library of Congress Control Number2016038105
- OCLC Control Number950954936
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780822362548
- Open LibraryOL27398277M
Classifications
- LCCTD304.M86A53 2017
- LCCTD304.M86 A53 2017
Description
In 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.
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Other Editions
- Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai
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