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Property, Pipes, and Improvement

Malini Ranganathan

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Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) water pipeline transmitting water from the Cauvery river to the city of Bangalore. Photo: Malini Ranganathan.

Liquid Utility
July 2019










Notes
1

Brenna Bhandar, Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018), 181.

2

See for instance Nicholas Blomley, “Law, Property, and the Geography of Violence: The Frontier, the Survey, and the Grid,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93, no. 1 (2003); Cheryl Harris, “Whiteness as Property,” Harvard Law Review 106, no. 8 (1993); Thomas W Merrill, “Property and the Right to Exclude,” Nebraska Law Review 730 (1998); Bhandar, Ananya Roy, “Paradigms of Propertied Citizenship: Transnational Techniques of Analysis,” Urban Affairs Review 38, no. 4 (2003).

3

Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, vol. I (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 2010 (1887)).

4

EP Thompson, Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture (New York: The New Press, 1993).

5

Bhandar, 120.

6

Patrick Wolfe, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native,” Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 4 (2006).

7

Thompson, 165.

8

Stephen Legg, Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (Malden: Blackwell, 2007), 175.

9

Malini Ranganathan, “Rule by Difference: Empire, Liberalism, and the Legacies of Urban ‘Improvement’,” Environment and Planning: A 50, no. 7 (2018).

10

Malini Ranganathan, “Mafias in the Waterscape: Urban Informality and Everyday Public Authority in Bangalore,” Water Alternatives 7, no. 1 (2014), .

11

Deborah Cowen and Nemoy Lewis, “Anti-Blackness and Urban Geopolitical Economy,” Society + Space, August 2, 2016, .

12

Charles Pinderhughes, “How ‘Black Awakening in Capitalist America’ Laid the Foundation for a New Internal Colonialism Theory,” The Black Scholar 40, no. 2 (2010), 71.

13

Robert Blauner, Still the Big News: Racial Oppression in America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001 (1972)), 67.

14

See for instance Juan Cole, “Flint and Gaza: Water Crises of Colonialism,” The Nation, February 3, 2016, .

15

Andrew Highsmith, Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 47.

16

Michael B Katz, Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the Underclass, and Urban Schools as History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997).

17

Malini Ranganathan, “Thinking with Flint: Racial Liberalism and the Roots of an American Water Tragedy,” Capitalism Nature Socialism 27, no. 3 (2016).

18

Andrew S Sartori, Liberalism in Empire: An Alternative History (Oakland: University of California Press, 2014), 3.