City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water - Softcover

Watson, Sophie

 
9789811378942: City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9811378940 ISBN 13: 9789811378942
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

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’s fluid existence in the world, as material object, cultural representation, as movement, as actor, as practice and as ritual. The book explores the interconnectedness of humans and non-humans, of nature and culture, and the complex entanglements of water in all its many forms; how water constitutes multiple differences and is implicated in relations of power, often invisible, but present nevertheless in the workings of daily life in all its rhythms and forms; and water’s capacity to assemble a multiplicity of publics and constitute new socialities and connections. Cities, and their inhabitants, without water will die, and so will their cultures.

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About the Author

Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. She has written extensively on cities, feminist theory, public space, street markets and multicultural differences and politics. Her publications include The New Blackwell Companion to the City (with Gary Bridge) and City Publics: the (dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters.

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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’s fluid existence in the world, as material object, cultural representation, as movement, as actor, as practice and as ritual. The book explores the interconnectedness of humans and non-humans, of nature and culture, and the complex entanglements of water in all its many forms; how water constitutes multiple differences and is implicated in relations of power, often invisible, but present nevertheless in the workings of daily life in all its rhythms and forms; and water’s capacity to assemble a multiplicity of publics and constitute new socialities and connections. Cities, and their inhabitants, without water will die, and so will their cultures.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9811378940
ISBN 13 
9789811378942
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
227

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