Privatizing water : governance failure and the world`s urban water crisis /
Bakker, Karen J.,
Privatizing water : governance failure and the world's urban water crisis / Karen Bakker. - xvi, 303 pages : illustrations, 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) RM345.73 0801447232 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801474644 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801474647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Municipal water supply--Political aspects.
Water utilities--Deregulation.
Privatization.
Right to water.
Privatizing water : governance failure and the world's urban water crisis / Karen Bakker. - xvi, 303 pages : illustrations, 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) RM345.73 0801447232 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801474644 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801474647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Municipal water supply--Political aspects.
Water utilities--Deregulation.
Privatization.
Right to water.