I'd really like a copy of this, Zainab. Can you send it to my work address - salil.tripa...@ihrb.org? We published a report on corporate responsibility and the right to water. Happy to share that link here, but it is accessible and downloadable here - www.ihrb.org.
Thanks Salil Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: Zainab Bawa <bawazaina...@gmail.com> Sender: silklist-bounces+salil61=googlemail....@lists.hserus.net Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:59:10 To: <silklist@lists.hserus.net> Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] My paper in the Journal of Asian and African Studies I am only allowed to circulate this paper one on one, not put it up for public use immediately. Maybe few months down the line, I can put the pdf on my blog! On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <sur...@hserus.net>wrote: > At last. This looks good - you might as well pdf it up and post it > somewhere (if that journal allows you to do so of course). > > --srs (iPad) > > On 05-Oct-2011, at 16:39, Zainab Bawa <bawazaina...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > My paper titled “Where is the State? How is the State? - Accessing Water > and the State in Mumbai and Johannesburg” has appeared in the latest Special > Issue on “Accessing the State” in the Journal of Asian and African Studies. > I’d be happy to share a copy of the article with anyone who is interested in > reading it. > > Abstract: This article examines the water distribution systems in > Johannesburg and Mumbai to argue that the political and institutional > contexts of service delivery shape people’s access to the state and its > resources, and also mediation between citizens and government institutions > by councillors. Through ethnographies of water supply and distribution > systems in Mumbai and Johannesburg, I explain how the organizational > structure of the water utility, institutional arrangements of service > delivery, regulatory systems, councillors’ proximity to decision makers and > their relationship with municipal officials, civil servants and party > members variously influence councillors’ mediation capacities and their > ability to fulfil the claims of their constituencies for piped water supply > and connections. > > Regards, > > Zainab > > > -- > Zainab Bawa > Ph.D. Student and Independent Researcher > > <http://writerruns.wordpress.com/>http://writerruns.wordpress.com/ > ... ambling along roads and courses, not knowing whether I am running > towards a destination or whether the act of running is destination in itself > > -- Zainab Bawa Ph.D. Student and Independent Researcher http://writerruns.wordpress.com/ ... ambling along roads and courses, not knowing whether I am running towards a destination or whether the act of running is destination in itself
