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.