Orient Blackswan

Imprint	Orient BlackSwan
Year of Publishing	2014
Number of pages	340
ISBN	9788125054917
Format	Hardback
Language	English
Dimensions	140 x 216 mm

Imprint

Orient BlackSwan

Year of Publishing

2014

Number of pages

340

ISBN

9788125054917

Format

Hardback

Language

English

Dimensions

140 x 216 mm

Imprint	Orient BlackSwan
Year of Publishing	2016
ISBN	9788125063810
Format	eBook
Language	English
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Imprint

Orient BlackSwan

Year of Publishing

2016

ISBN

9788125063810

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eBook

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English

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Neoliberalism and Water tells us the story of the reforms in the water sector in Maharashtra in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

It looks at it through the prism of neoliberalism, which works in combination with other processes, and by the specific nature of water as a resource.

The introductory discussion of different approaches to understanding neoliberalism provides the base for the ensuing discussion of water reforms.

It discusses changes in urban and rural drinking water, and irrigation, and concepts like piped water, 24x7 water, water entitlements, commodity, and entrepreneurship.

It raises the questions—What kinds of visions of development of the urban and the rural do current water reforms draw upon? How is decentralisation mediated by ideas like self-sufficiency, depoliticisation, and expertise? What kind of work goes into constructing markets and determining prices? Who are the new kinds of ‘private’ actors who have emerged in the arena of water? How are mindsets and modes of working changing even among ‘public’ institutions?

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Priya Sangameswaran is Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

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List of Abbreviations
Preface

1. Introduction: Reforms in the Water Sector and Discourses of Water and Development
2. The Village Community and the Entrepreneurial City: Piped Water, 24 * 7 Water, and Visions of Development
3. Mediated Decentralisation: Discourses of Self-sufficiency, Depoliticisation, and Expertise
4. Commercialisation, Commodification, and Pricing
5. Water and the Public-Private Debate
6. Neoliberalism and the Re-forming of the Water Sector

Postscript
Bibliography
Index

the Book
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Table of Contents

Neoliberalism and Water tells us the story of the reforms in the water sector in Maharashtra in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

It looks at it through the prism of neoliberalism, which works in combination with other processes, and by the specific nature of water as a resource.

The introductory discussion of different approaches to understanding neoliberalism provides the base for the ensuing discussion of water reforms.

It discusses changes in urban and rural drinking water, and irrigation, and concepts like piped water, 24x7 water, water entitlements, commodity, and entrepreneurship.

It raises the questions—What kinds of visions of development of the urban and the rural do current water reforms draw upon? How is decentralisation mediated by ideas like self-sufficiency, depoliticisation, and expertise? What kind of work goes into constructing markets and determining prices? Who are the new kinds of ‘private’ actors who have emerged in the arena of water? How are mindsets and modes of working changing even among ‘public’ institutions?

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Priya Sangameswaran is Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

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List of Abbreviations
Preface

Postscript
Bibliography
Index

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Neoliberalism and Water

Complicating the Story of ‘Reforms’ in Maharashtra

Priya Sangameswaran

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