TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anand, Nikhil
AB  - In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition—what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"—is incremental, intermittent, and reversible.
DO  - 10.1215/9780822373599
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625674
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 957265041
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - Jogeshwari
KW  - Mumbai
KW  - Proj construction
KW  - Water supply
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/1fb8a444-7e9c-4c44-b6c1-87b1edf400c4/625674.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31718
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham NC
PY  - 2017-03-10
SN  - 9780822373599
TI  - Hydraulic City : Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai
ER  - 
