City water matters : cultures, practices and entanglements of urban water / Sophie Watson.
Watson, Sophie, author.
2019
TD345
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Title City water matters : cultures, practices and entanglements of urban water / Sophie Watson.
Author Watson, Sophie, author.
ISBN 9789811378928 (electronic book)
9811378924 (electronic book)
9789811378911
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Copyright ©2019
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number TD345
Dewey Decimal Classification 628.1
Summary 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.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1: City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water-An Introduction; Crisis; Water Resources and Infrastructures; Post-humanist Approaches; Culture, Everyday Life and Symbolic Meanings; References; 2: Public Water Features: Assembling Publics, Enlivening Spaces, Promoting Regeneration; Rome: Enacting Power; Istanbul; Paris; Assembling Publics: Fountains and Public Space; Enhancing Regeneration; City Branding and Place Making; Thirst Quenching; Conclusion; References

3: Consuming Water: Habits, Rituals and State InterventionsPatterns of Consumption; Leakage and Infrastructure; Bottled Water; Strategies for Water Consumption; Affect; Habits; Meaning of the Home; Conclusion; References; 4: River Powers: Assembling Publics, Connections and Materials in a Global City; Mid-Nineteenth Century to Mid-Twentieth Century; 'Workers on the Silent Highway' (Thomson 1877); Mudlarks, Sewer Hunters, Dredgers and Purl Men; Unruly Waters; River Crossings; Rebirth of the Thames: Connecting Places; Watery Pleasures; Fashionable Pleasures; Sailing Barges; Conclusion

7: Differentiating Water: Cultural Practices and ContestationsPurification Rituals; Muslim Practices; Jewish Practices; A Question of Politics; Votive Objects and Scattering of Ashes; Deploying Religion for Water Conservation; Gendering of Water; Conclusion; References; 8: Water Traces in Urban Space; Horse Troughs; Water Tap, Africa; Thames Steps; Rye Cistern; Aqueducts; Brewery; Bondi Outflow; References; 9: Final Word

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