City Water Matters
Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water
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Final Word
This is a book that has aimed to bring to light the significance of water to everyday life in cities and a multiplicity of practices which often go unnoticed or barely remarked. Water in cities is as much abou...
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Water Traces in Urban Space
Cities are alive with fragments and traces of the past. Every street in the city is a palimpsest of other times, different urban strategies, different needs, representations and intentions. Each material objec...
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City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water—An Introduction
This book argues for the importance of water as a cultural object, and as a source of complex meanings in everyday life, bringing cultural practices to the fore, and arguing for their embeddedness in a wider s...
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Consuming Water: Habits, Rituals and State Interventions
Without water, there is no possibility of life. But how much water individuals and societies actually need is culturally contingent, historically specific and open to contestation. This chapter shows how water...
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Embodied Water Entanglements: Sex/Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Class Urban Sanitation Practices
This chapter argues that how and where bodies are washed and defecate and how clothes get washed in the city is by far from a trivial affair. Rather, practices of cleanliness impact on the spatiality and socia...
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Differentiating Water: Cultural Practices and Contestations
This chapter explores differentiated cultural, religious and gendered practices and rituals associated with water. Differences in the city constitute, and are constituted by, different urban sites and spaces. ...
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Public Water Features: Assembling Publics, Enlivening Spaces, Promoting Regeneration
This chapter explores the many ways in which fountains in the city animate public space, assemble multiple publics, are deployed for urban regeneration and place making and branding and exist as symbolic sites...
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River Powers: Assembling Publics, Connections and Materials in a Global City
Rivers are iconic. This chapter explores the capacity of rivers to enable commerce and trade, to enrol multiple publics, and to connect people, places, materials and technologies. Their very materiality, the f...
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Public Waters: The Passions, Pleasures and Politics of Bathing in the City
This chapter explores how the substance of water has a unique power to evoke passions, attachments and a sense of connection and belonging which enrols bodies in new socialities, alliances and politics in unpr...
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Brief Encounters of an Unpredictable Kind: Everyday Multiculturalism in Two London Street Markets
Across the world street markets represent a site of everyday sociality and public space where people from different cultures connect through casual encounters as both traders and shoppers. Given the significan...
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Selling Australia, selling Sydney: The ambivalent politics of entrepreneurial multiculturalism
Multiculturalism is a concept that is hotly contested and deployed in a wide range of discourses with different meanings, different strategic purposes, and with different effects. This paper explores the strat...
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The Dual City or the City of Many Parts? Rethinking Differences in Cities in Transition
For more than a decade urban analysis and debate has drawn attention to growing social spatial polarization in many cities. As the rich have got richer and the poor poorer, so also there has been a tendency to...
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The Sexual Contract
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A Woman’s Place: a Feminist Approach to Housing in Britain
An exciting development in the women’s movement over the last few years has been an attempt by feminists to organise together around housing issues and to develop a feminist analysis of how the organisation of...
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A Woman's Place: A Feminist Approach to Housing in Britain
