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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 4 Water trucks lining up at night at a water intake system in Wyalusing, PA. Photograph by Nina Berman More
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (1 (69)): 115–141.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Stephen Graham; Renu Desai; Colin McFarlane This essay excavates the complex politics of water in contemporary Mumbai. In the context of a burgeoning water crisis in the city, it explores in detail how the city’s social and political elites demonize the efforts of inhabitants of Mumbai’s slums...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 291–315.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Gökçe Günel This article examines the discourses and practices of climate change adaptation in the Arabian Peninsula. It suggests that climate change adaptation projects in the region are often attempts at reframing water-related challenges that are already present, regardless of the effects...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 305–330.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Nikhil Anand In this article I explore the political and technical controversies of measuring water leakages in Mumbai to demonstrate how the dense historical accretions of technology, material, and social life that form hydraulic infrastructures in Mumbai trouble the audit cultures of neoliberal...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 261–289.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Daniel Aldana Cohen Specters of rationing haunt metro São Paulo. Water supplies have plunged to historic, dangerous lows. The idea of rationing has become a flash-point. The state’s center-right governor has insisted that rationing be avoided at all costs and the state’s profit-driven water utility...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jerome Whitington Singapore climate change adaptation planning for water infrastructure is assessed against the concept of “vital security systems.” Cast against the historicity of water planning and postcolonial urbanism, water supply, coastal protection, and flood control are understood in terms...
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Published: 01 May 2015
Figure 1 K-East Water Budget. PowerPoint slide displayed at second stakeholder consultation, June 3, 2007 More
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 2 Methane-laced water from Jodie Simons’s kitchen faucet in Monroeton, PA. Photograph by Nina Berman More
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 3 Cassie Spencer looking at the “water buffalo” installed at her house in Wyalusing, PA. Photograph by Nina Berman More
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 10 Water impoundment pond in Tiadaghton State Forest, PA. Photograph by Nina Berman More
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 2 California’s water circulation system. Wikimedia Commons More
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 2 Singapore’s water system as a semiclosed loop. Note that the two “climate-independent taps” are at the symbolic center of the circle meant to bypass rainfall and storm water management as natural variables. Illustration by the author based on Public Utilities Board 2014a. More
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 1 “The Body of a Young Man Taken Out of the Water Apparently Dead in the Sight of the Distressed Parents.” Engraved by Robert Pollard, after the painting by Robert Smirke (1787). Credit: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London. More
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 359–387.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Liz Koslov Retreat, or relocating people and unbuilding land in places vulnerable to flooding and sea level rise, remains on the fringes of conversations about climate change adaptation. Yet already people throughout the world are moving away from the water en masse. Many more want to move but lack...
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Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 409–417.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of infrastructural networks (roads, power lines, dams) have disrupted Guarani infrastructures (the presence of Atlantic Forest, the continuity of paths between Guarani villages, access to clean water). Nonetheless, Guarani communities in São Paulo remake Guarani geographies every day, resisting Atlantic Forest...
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (2): 333–368.
Published: 01 May 2010
... for the very constitution of the popular. Daily rituals around the Coca Cola logo (placing empty plastic pots as mute witness to water scarcity) became critical to the formation of such a front against the corporate giant. I argue such performances are the norm these days in our highly media-saturated...
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Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 237–259.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Figure 2 California’s water circulation system. Wikimedia Commons ...
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (3 (101)): 443–455.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of flagging‐out and offshoring; and as a physical site where structures of racial capitalism, mainly in terms of labor, proliferate. The second part of the article discusses certain forms of community waters’ defense as a possible path toward decolonization and Indigenous efforts to “take sea back...
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Published: 01 May 2016
Figure 1 Jodie Simons and Jason Lamphere of Monroeton, PA, demonstrate how their tap water ignites due to high concentrations of methane. Photograph by Nina Berman More
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Published: 01 September 2022
figure 2 São Paulo's urban growth and the expansion of infrastructural networks (roads, power lines, dams) have disrupted Guarani infrastructures (the presence of Atlantic Forest, the continuity of paths between Guarani villages, access to clean water). More