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

by Sophie Watson

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9811378916

ISBN13:9789811378911

Release Date:July 2019

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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