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Author Bakker, Karen J.

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

Imprint Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  363.61 B179p 2010    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Description xvi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Privatization and the urban water crisis -- 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 -- Conclusion : Beyond privatization.
Subject Municipal water supply -- Political aspects.
Water utilities -- Deregulation.
Privatization.
Right to water.
ISBN 9780801474644 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801474647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801447235 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801447232 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. 3377393

 
    
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