Social power and the urbanization of water : flows of power

Social power and the urbanization of water : flows of power / Erik Swyngedouw.

Taking as his case-study the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador, where 600,000 people lack easy access to potable water, the author aims to reconstruct, theoretically and empirically, the political, social and economic conduits through which water flows, and identify the inherent political relations.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swyngedouw, E. (Erik) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:Oxford geographical and environmental studies.
Subjects:
Water-supply > Political aspects.
Water-supply > Social aspects.
Water-supply > Economic aspects.
Municipal water supply > Social aspects.
Municipal water supply > Ecuador > Guayaquil.
Economic history
Municipal water supply
Municipal water supply > Social aspects
Water-supply > Economic aspects
Water-supply > Political aspects
Water-supply > Social aspects
Guayaquil (Ecuador) > Economic conditions.
Ecuador > Guayaquil
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Power of Water
  • pt. I. Flows of Power: Nature, Power, and the City
  • 1. Hybrid Waters: On Water, Nature, and Society
  • 2. The City in a Glass of Water: Circulating Water, Circulating Power
  • 3. Water, Power, and the Andean City: Situating Guayaquil
  • pt. II. Social Power and the Urbanization of Water in Guayaquil, Ecuador
  • 4. The Urban Conquest of Water in Guayaquil: 1880-1945: Cocoa and the Urban Water Dream.

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