Landscapes of Disaster: Water, Modernity, and Urban Fragmentation in Mumbai
Landscapes of Disaster: Water, Modernity, and Urban Fragmentation in Mumbai
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灾难景观：孟买的水、现代性和城市破碎化
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2008
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M. Gandy
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M. Gandy
孟买正在经历一个复杂的社会、经济和政治转型，成为一个日益碎片化和两极分化的大都市空间。流经当代孟买的曲折水流是后殖民大都会内持续存在的社会不平等的最引人注目的指标之一。我们发现，城市的功能失调的水基础设施有其根源在殖民时代，但这些初期的弱点已被加剧，近年来的快速城市发展，专制形式的政治动员，以及中产阶级利益的主导地位内一个裸露的公共领域。有人认为，孟买面临的水和卫生危机需要理解的资本主义城市化和国家形成在印度的背景下的特殊性。
The city of Mumbai is undergoing a complex social, economic, and political transition into an increasingly fragmentary and polarized metropolitan space. The tortuous flow of water through contemporary Mumbai presents one of the most striking indicators of persistent social inequalities within the postcolonial metropolis. We find that the city's dysfunctional water infrastructure has its roots within the colonial era but these incipient weaknesses have been exacerbated in recent years by rapid urban growth, authoritarian forms of political mobilization, and the dominance of middle-class interests within a denuded public realm. It is argued that the water and sanitation crisis facing Mumbai needs to be understood in relation to the particularities of capitalist urbanization and state formation in an Indian context.