Pipe Politics, Contested Waters
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Pipe Politics, Contested Waters

Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai

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Pipe Politics, Contested Waters

Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai

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Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social SciencesDespite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial resources. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "world class" business center has wreaked havoc on the city's water pipes. In rich ethnographic detail, Pipe Politics explores how the everyday work of getting water animates and inhabits a penumbra of infrastructural activity—of business, brokerage, secondary markets, and sociopolitical networks—whose workings are reconfiguring and rescaling political authority in the city. Mumbai's increasingly illegible and volatile hydrologies, Björkman argues, are lending infrastructures increasing political salience just as actual control over pipes and flows becomes contingent on dispersed and intimate assemblages of knowledge, power, and material authority. These new arenas of contestation reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake Mumbai in the image of Shanghai or Singapore and gesture instead toward the highly contested futures and democratic possibilities of the actually existing city.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9780822375210
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia de la India y el sur de Asia

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Embedded Infrastructures
  5. One: “We Got Stuck in Between”: Unmapping the Distribution Network
  6. Two: “The Slum and Building Industry”: Marketizing Urban Development
  7. Three: “You Can’t Stop Development”: Hydraulic Shambles
  8. Four: “It Was Like That from the Beginning”: Becoming a Slum
  9. Five: “No Hydraulics Are Possible”: Brokering Water Knowledge
  10. Six: “Good Doesn’t Mean You’re Honest”: Corruption
  11. Seven: “If Water Comes It’s Because of Politics”: Power, Authority, and Hydraulic Spectacle
  12. Conclusion: Pipe Politics
  13. Appendix: Department of Hydraulic Engineering
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index