Hossain Contested Water Supply: Claim Making and the Politics of Regulation in Dhaka, Bangladesh

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-515-10418-0
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 9, 336 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel

Offering an alternative reading of the contested nature of access to public resources in Dhaka, this e-book argues that the contestation of access cannot be explained only by the city’s rapidly growing population; it rather describes it as a product of context-specific structures of power and dependency – "the politics of regulation".

This study gives a detailed account of the large diversity of local arrangements and their underlying strategies for negotiation and legitimation in the process of claim making to water supply. It presents constellations of influential actors and their interests and explains how their negotiations in an unbalanced power structure determine the distribution of and access to public water supplies.

The author followed an ethnographic research approach and applied a complex and innovative set of qualitative methods for investigation in a low income inner-city squatter area and in a growing peripheral settlement of Dhaka. Frequent participation in adda (casual talks), and personal access to the water supply authority enabled him to observe the routines of everyday life and the complexities of public decision making.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hossain, Shahadat

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Wasserversorgung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;6
2;TABLE OF CONTENTS;8
3;LIST OF FIGURES;11
4;LIST OF PHOTOS;12
5;LIST OF TEXT BOXES;13
6;LIST OF TABLES;13
7;LIST OF ACRONYMS;13
8;GLOSSARY OF BENGALI TERMS;16
9;1 INTRODUCTION;22
10;PART I – SITUATING THE RESEARCH;30
10.1;2 RESEARCH CONTEXT;32
10.2;3 INFORMALITY AND THE POLITICS OF REGULATION;46
10.3;4 RESEARCH FRAMEWORK;86
10.4;5 METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK;92
11;PART II – EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE;126
11.1;6 KORAIL BOSTI: UNDERSTANDING THE SETTLEMENT;128
11.2;7 LOCAL PRACTICE OF NEGOTIATION AND CONTESTATION IN WATER SUPPLY IN KORAIL BOSTI;156
11.3;8 LOCAL ASSOCIATION IN ORGANISATION AND REGULATION: THE CASE OF BOU BAZAAR COMMITTEE/SOMITI;184
11.4;9 NGO INVOLVEMENT IN WATER SUPPLY IN KORAIL BOSTI;200
11.5;10 UTTOR BADDA: UNDERSTANDING THE SETTLEMENT;240
11.6;11 CONTESTATION AND NEGOTIATION IN DWASA WATER SUPPLY IN UTTOR BADDA;256
12;PART III – RECONNECTING EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE ANDTHEORETICAL DISCUSSION;280
12.1;12 REVISITING URBAN INFORMALITY: CLAIM MAKING AND INFORMAL REGULATION OF PUBLIC RESOURCES;282
12.2;13 CONCLUSION;296
13;REFERENCES;302
14;APPENDIX;314
15;PHOTO GALLERY;323

Über Autor(innen)

Hossain, Shahadat
Shahadat Hossain is a Research Fellow at the School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University, Germany since 2007. He holds an undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), an MA in Development Management from the Ruhr Universität Bochum and a PhD from the School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University. In the past he worked in development cooperation, taught at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, BUET, Bangladesh and worked in German Research Foundation supported research projects. Currently he is involved in a research project on translating urban infrastructures: adaptation and creativity in water and sanitation systems in African cities conducted at the School of Spatial Planning, TU Dortmund University. His research interests include urban informality, citizenship, urban governance, power and politics in planning, social exclusion, and ethnographic approaches to social science research.