Privatizing water : governance failure and the world's urban wate r crisis /
Bakker, Karen J.
Privatizing water : governance failure and the world's urban wate r crisis / Karen Bakker. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2010. - xvi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Governance failure : reframing the urban water supply "crisis" -- Ma terial emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water -- Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate -- Citizens without a ci ty : the techno-politics of urban water governance -- Protesting privat ization : transnational struggles over the human right to water -- Comm ons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management -- Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governanc e.
9780801447235 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801447232 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801474644 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801474647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010-015488
015623757 Uk
Municipal water supply-- Political aspects.
Water utilities-- Deregulation.
Privatization.
Right to water.
363.6/1
Privatizing water : governance failure and the world's urban wate r crisis / Karen Bakker. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2010. - xvi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Governance failure : reframing the urban water supply "crisis" -- Ma terial emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water -- Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate -- Citizens without a ci ty : the techno-politics of urban water governance -- Protesting privat ization : transnational struggles over the human right to water -- Comm ons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management -- Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governanc e.
9780801447235 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801447232 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801474644 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801474647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010-015488
015623757 Uk
Municipal water supply-- Political aspects.
Water utilities-- Deregulation.
Privatization.
Right to water.
363.6/1