City Water Matters

Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water

AvSophie Watson

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Water is one of the most pressing concerns of our time. This book argues for the importance of water as a cultural object, and as a source of complex meanings and practices in everyday life, embedded in the socio-economics of local water provision.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-14
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:298 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811378942

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Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She has written extensively on cities, feminist theory, public space, street markets and multicultural differences and politics. Her publications include The New Blackwell Companion to the City (with Gary Bridge) and City Publics: the (dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. City Water matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water:An Introduction.- Chapter 2. Public Water features: assembling publics, enlivening spaces, promoting regeneration.- Chapter 3. Consuming Water: habits, rituals and state interventions.- Chapter 4. River Powers: assembling publics, connections and materials in a global city.- Chapter 5. Embodied water entanglements: sex/gender, race/ethnicity and class urban practices of cleanliness and sanitation.- Chapter 6. Public waters: the passions, pleasures and politics of bathing in the city.- Chapter 7. Differentiating Water: Cultural Practices and Contestations.- Chapter 8. Water Traces in Urban Space.- Chapter 9. A Final Word.