Social power and the urbanization of water : flows of power /

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Author / Creator:	Swyngedouw, E. (Erik)
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford geographical and environmental studies Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
Subject:	Municipal water supply -- Economic aspects -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil. Municipal water supply -- Social aspects -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil. Municipal water supply -- Economic aspects. Municipal water supply -- Social aspects. Ecuador -- Guayaquil.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143528

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ISBN:	1423767764 9781423767763 9786610758807 6610758808 9780198233916 0198233914 0191543799 9780191543791 0198233914 9780191916519 019191651X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-202) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Social Power and the Urbanization of Water takes the circulation of water as a lense through which to analyse how the natural and social fuse together in the process of urbanization. In addition, excavating the circulation of water provides a vehicle to examine the relations between social, political, and economic power which give structure to the urbanization process. These power relations become embodied in and expressed by the particular forms through which water becomes urban. This analysis, in turn, allows light to be cast on who controls the transformation and appropriation of nature and the city's environment. The city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, provides the empirical background for this analysis. Historical political-ecological research is combined with an analysis of key contemporary power brokers who organize a highly uneven and deeply unjust urban water circulation system."--Jacket
Other form:	Print version: Swyngedouw, E. (Erik). Social power and the urbanization of water. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0198233914

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