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

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&#...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, Sophie (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban.
Human geography.
Urban Sociology.
Human Geography.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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