Privatizing water [electronic resource] : governance failure and the world's urban water crisis / Karen Bakker.
By: Bakker, Karen J.
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BookPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2010Description: xvi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Municipal water supply -- Political aspects | Water utilities -- Deregulation | Privatization | Right to waterGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.6/1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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