Pipe Politics, Contested Waters

Bjorkman Lisa Bjorkman

Description

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 Bjorkman 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, Bjorkman 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. 

Sujets

• Histoire
• South Asia
• Environmental management
• History of Asia
• India

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 17 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822375210
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 12 Mo

Extrait

P I P E P O L I T I C S , C O N T E S T E D WAT E R S

P I P E P O L I T I C S , C O N T E S T E D WAT E R S

Eéé àŝûçûéŝ ô Méà Mûà

L i s a B j ö r k m a n

Dûé Uéŝy Péŝŝ Dûà à ôô 2015

© 2 0 1 5 D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S Ā ŝ éŝéé Pé  é Ué Śàéŝ ô Āéçà ô àç-éé àé ∞ Déŝé y Çôûéy é àé yéŝé  Mô y Wéŝçéŝé Pûŝ Śéçéŝ

ày ô Çôéŝŝ Çààô--Pûçàô Dàà à, ŝà, [àé]–àûô. Pé ôçŝ, çôéŝé àéŝ : ééé àŝûçûéŝ ô éà Mûà / ŝà à. àéŝ ç çûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à éX. isbn 978-0-8223-5950-0 (àçôé : à. àé) isbn 978-0-8223-5969-2 (. : à. àé) isbn 978-0-8223-7521-0 (é-ôô) 1. Wàé-ŝûy—à—Mûà. 2. Wàéôŝ—à—Mûà. 3. àŝûçûé (Eçôôçŝ)—à—Mûà. 4. Mûà (à)—Pôçŝ à ôéé. i. é. hd4465.i5b57 2015 363.6'10954792—ç23 2015010921

Çôé à: Pôô y ŝà à.

Dûé Uéŝy Péŝŝ àéûy àçôééŝ é Āéçà ŝûé ô à Śûéŝ, 2014 Jôŝé W. Eé Pé  é à Śôçà Śçéçéŝ, ç ôé ûŝ ôà é ûçàô ô ŝ ôô.

F O R C A R O L B R E C K E N R I D G E

Āàé é J O S E P H W . E L D E R P R I Z E I N T H E I N D I A N S O C I A L S C I E N C E S y é Āéçà ŝûé ô à Śûéŝ à ûŝé  é ŝûé’ŝ ééôûŝ ŝûô.

C o n t e n t s

Āçôééŝ X

Introduction: Eéé àŝûçûéŝ 1

o n e “ W E G O T S T U C K I N B E T W E E N ” Uà é Dŝûô éô 21

t wo “ T H E S L U M A N D B U I L D I N G I N D U S T R Y ” Màé Uà Dééôé 62

t h r e e “ Y O U C A N ’ T S T O P D E V E L O P M E N T ” yàûç Śàéŝ 82

F o u r “ I T W A S L I K E T H A T F R O M T H E B E G I N N I N G ” éçô à Śû 98

F i v e “ N O H Y D R A U L I C S A R E P O S S I B L E ” ôé Wàé Kôéé 128

s i x “ G O O D D O E S N ’ T M E A N Y O U ’ R E H O N E S T ” Çôûô 165

s e v e n “ I F W A T E R C O M E S I T ’ S B E C A U S E O F P O L I T I C S ” Pôé, Āûôy, à yàûç Śéçàçé 198

Concusion: Pé Pôçŝ 227

Appendix: Déàé ô yàûç Eéé 235

ôéŝ 237 éééçéŝ 267 éX 277

A c k n ow  e d g m e n t s

Hé éà ô ŝ ôô ééé  2004 û à àûàé ŝéà  Pô- éŝŝô Çàô éçéé, à éày éô ôŝé éé àféçô à çûôŝy ô é çy ô Mûà àŝ çôàôûŝ. Ôé é ôô yéàŝ é ôéç çàé ô é ûé é ûàçé ô y àŝôŝ à éôŝ à é é Śçôô ô Śôçà éŝéàç, éŝéçày à ô Vyàyà àô, ôy Pàçà, Śà- ày ûàéà, Mçàé Çôé, Āû Āàûà, à Vçôà àà, éàç ô ô lûéçé é ôéç  ŝç à ôà àyŝ.  ôé ééôûŝ àŝ ô é Āéçà ŝûé ô à Śûéŝ (aiis) ô é çôŝŝé ŝûô ô y éŝéàç ôé é yéàŝ. éô  Mû- à ééé 2008 à 2011 àŝ àé ôŝŝé y à Āéçà ŝûé ô àŚûéŝJûôéŝéàçéôŝ,ààJàûàŝ ŝûôé y àûàé éôŝŝ  2004 à  2007–8.  ôû é ô à Eŝé Āûéàç, P ûéô, Pûà Méà, é aiis ûŝééŝ, àŝ é àŝ é éXàôày àçûy à é aiis  àûàé Pôà  Jàû. Eày ŝûô ô ŝ ôéç àŝ ôé y à é Śçôô à Çà - ŝûé éôŝ  2006, à à é Śçôô ô Śôçà éŝéàç Dŝŝéàô éôŝ  2007–8.  à àéû ô é àà ŝûé ô Śôçà Śçéçéŝ  Mûà ô ô àîàô û é éô ô y ïéô, à ô é ŝûé ô Āàçé Śûéŝ  ûççà ô ô à à à éçô ô éôé  2011. Mûç ô é  ô ŝ ôô ôô àçé é  àŝ à ôŝôçôà éô à é MàX Pàç ŝûé ô é Śûy ô éôûŝ à Eç Déŝy  Gé, ç ôféé à ééçûày ôà à éXçééy éàŝà àôŝéé  ç ô éà, , à é.