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oapen-20.500.12657-317182021-11-04T14:13:20Z Hydraulic City Anand, Nikhil Anthropology European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System Infrastructure Jogeshwari Mumbai Proj construction Water supply bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition—what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"—is incremental, intermittent, and reversible. 2017-03-16 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:47:07Z 2020-04-01T13:47:07Z 2017-03-10 book 625674 OCN: 957265041 9780822373599 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31718 eng application/pdf n/a 625674.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822373599 100286 10.1215/9780822373599 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822373599 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham NC 100286 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition—what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"—is incremental, intermittent, and reversible.
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