Social power and the urbanization of water : flows of power /
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| Author / Creator: | Swyngedouw, E. (Erik) |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. |
| Description: | xii, 209 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford geographical and environmental studies |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5153830 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Flows of Power: Nature, Power, and the City
- 1. Hybrid Waters: On Water, Nature, and Society
- 2. The City in a Glass of Water: Circulating Water, Circulating Power
- 3. Water, Power, and the Andean City: Situating Guayaquil
- II. Social Power and the Urbanization of Water in Guayaquil, Ecuador
- 4. The Urban Conquest of Water in Guayaquil, 1880-1945: Cocoa and the Urban Water Dream
- 5. The Urban Conquest of Water in Guayaquil, 1945-2000: Bananas, Oil, and the Production of Water Scarcity
- 6. The Water Mandarins: The Contradictions of Urban Water Provision
- 7. The Water Lords: Speculators in Water
- 8. Contested Waters: Rituals of Resistance and Water Activism
- III. Conclusion
- 9. Whose Water and Whose City? Towards an Emancipatory Water Politics