Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial resources. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "world class" business center has...(展开全部)

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a d...(展开全部)

Nikhil Anand is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nikhil Anand is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a d...(展开全部)

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change a...(展开全部)

In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. ...(展开全部)

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change a...(展开全部)

In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. ...(展开全部)

凯瑟琳·布（Katherine Boo） 美国知名记者、作家，曾在《华盛顿邮报》等媒体担任编辑和调查记者，2003年成为《纽约客》专职作者。 从业三十年来，始终关注在社会边缘挣扎求生的弱势群体，是美国报道当代社会问题最有影响力的记者之一，曾获普利策奖、麦克阿瑟天才奖、美 国国家杂志奖等重要奖项。其报道以调查广泛、行文优美、同理心丰沛见长，并促发了一系列改善举措。 《美好时代的背后》为其代表作，出版之后受到众多媒体好评，荣获美国国家图书奖、美国笔会奖、美国艺术暨文学学会奖等奖项。 · 何佩桦 美国纽约哥伦比亚大学教育学院硕士，曾任大学教师，现旅居北美，专事翻译。译有《伊斯坦布尔：一座城市的记忆》《另类的出口》《西班牙星光之路》《游牧女之歌》《慢船到中国》《夜航西飞》等书。