Privatizing water
Subtitle: governance failure and the world's urban water crisis
By: Karen Bakker
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801447235; 9780801474644
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Governance failure : reframing the urban water supply "crisis"; title: Material emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water; title: Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate; title: Citizens without a city : the techno-politics of urban water governance; title: Protesting privatization : transnational struggles over the human right to water; title: Commons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management; title: Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governance.