City Water Matters Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Watson, Sophie (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Sociology, Urban.; Human geography.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Human Geography.

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. Each chapter aims to capture one element of water&#...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.