City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water by Watson, Sophie

City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789811378942)

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City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water by Watson, Sophie

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

$44.99
City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water by Watson, Sophie

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

$44.99
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Sophie Watson
ISBN-10: 9811378940
ISBN-13: 9789811378942
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2020
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.48d
By Sophie Watson
By Sophie Watson
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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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