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Privatizing water : governance failure and the world's urban water crisis / Karen Bakker.

By: Bakker, Karen J.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Singapore : NUS Press, c2010Description: xvi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9789971695699 (pbk.).Subject(s): Municipal water supply -- Political aspects | Water utilities -- Deregulation | Privatization | Right to water
Contents:
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.
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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.

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