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 <[email protected]> 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/ > ... ambling along roads and courses, not knowing whether I am running towards > a destination or whether the act of running is destination in itself >
