Social Power and the Urbanization of Water

Flows of Power
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-823391-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

Reihe: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series

Taking the case of Guayaquil in Ecuador this book shows, both theoretically and empirically, how access to and control over water, and, consequently, urban socio-environmental conditions are shaped by social, economic, and political power relations.

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

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; 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; 5. The Urban Conquest of Water in Guayaquil, 1945-2000: Bananas, Oil, and the Production of Water Scarcity; 6. The Water Mandarins: The Contradictions of Urban Water Provision; 7. The Water Lords: Speculators in Water; 8. Contested Waters: Rituals of Resistance and Water Activism; III: CONCLUSION; 9. Whose Water and Whose City? Towards an Emancipatory Water Politics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Swyngedouw, Erik

Swyngedouw, E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Über Autor(innen)

(Reader in Economic Geography, University of Oxford)