'Mafias' in the Waterscape: Urban Informality and Everyday Public Authority in Bangalore
This article investigates the phenomenon of Bangaloreʼs urban 'water mafias', operators who extract and deliver groundwater to scores of informal residential areas in Indian cities. The term 'mafia' here is treated as a semantic area of situated meanings and cultural interpretati...
Main Author: | Malini Ranganathan |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Water Alternatives Association
2014-02-01
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Series: | Water Alternatives |
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Online Access: | http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol7/v7issue1/235-a7-1-6/file |
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