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Privatizing water :

Bakker, Karen J.

Privatizing water : Governance failure and the world's urban water 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" -- 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.

9780801447235 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801447232 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801474644 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801474647 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2010015488

GBB095455 bnb

015623757 Uk


Municipal water supply--Political aspects.
Water utilities--Deregulation.
Privatization.
Right to water.

HD4456 / .B35 2010

363.61 BAK