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City publics: the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters
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ISBN: 0415312272 0415312280 9780415312288 9780415312271 9780203962954 9781134383221 9781134383177 9781134383214 Year: 2006 Publisher: London Routledge

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Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. In such times, questions of the public realm and public space in cities warrant even greater attention than they have previously received. Investigating ordinary spaces in the city where power operates more subtly and differences are negotiated, Sophie Watson uses a number of different ethnographies of public spaces, materializing some of the theories of the urban public realm to see how difference is played out and negotiated in the everyday. Much of this book focuses on spaces where to outside observers tension is relatively absent or invisible, in order to elucidate processes of negotiation as well as antagonism, but Watson also reveals how the boundaries between the public and private are being negotiated and redrawn, and how public and private spaces are mutually constitutive. Through her investigation of the more ordinary and less dramatic forms of encounter and contestation in the city, Watson is able to conceive of an urban public realm and urban public space that is heterogeneous and potentially progressive.


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City Water Matters : Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water
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ISBN: 9811378924 9811378916 Year: 2019 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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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.


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City water matters : cultures, practices and entanglements of urban water
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ISBN: 9789811378911 9789811378928 Year: 2019 Publisher: Singapore Palgrave Macmillan

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Accomodating inequality: gender and housing
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ISBN: 0043202292 Year: 1988 Publisher: Sydney Allen & Unwin

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Playing the state : Australian feminist interventions
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ISBN: 0860919706 Year: 1990 Publisher: London New York Verso

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Housing and homelessness : a feminist perspective
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ISBN: 0710204000 9780710204004 Year: 1986 Publisher: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,

The Blackwell city reader
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ISBN: 0631225145 0631225137 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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The Blackwell city reader
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ISBN: 9781405189828 9781405189835 Year: 2010 Publisher: Malden Oxford West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell,

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Postmodern cities and spaces
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ISBN: 0631194045 0631194037 9780631194040 Year: 1996 Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell,

Engendering social policy
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ISBN: 033520113X 0335201148 Year: 1998 Publisher: Buckingham : Open university press,

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