Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial resources. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "world class" business center has wreaked havoc on the city’s water pipes. In rich ethnographic detail, Pipe Politics explores how the everyday work of getting water animates and inhabits a penumbra of infrastructural activity—of business, brokerage, secondary markets, and sociopolitical networks—whose workings are reconfiguring and rescaling political authority in the city. Mumbai’s increasingly illegible and volatile hydrologies, Björkman argues, are lending infrastructures increasing political salience just as actual control over pipes and flows becomes contingent on dispersed and intimate assemblages of knowledge, power, and material authority. These new arenas of contestation reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake Mumbai in the image of Shanghai or Singapore and gesture instead toward the highly contested futures and democratic possibilities of the actually existing city.
Winner, 2014 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
Despite Mumbai's position as India's financial, economic, and cultural capital, water is chronically unavailable for rich and poor alike. Mumbai's dry taps are puzzling, given that the city does not lack for either water or financial resources. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Björkman shows how an elite dream to transform Mumbai into a "world class" business center has wreaked havoc on the city’s water pipes. In rich ethnographic detail, Pipe Politics explores how the everyday work of getting water animates and inhabits a penumbra of infrastructural activity—of business, brokerage, secondary markets, and sociopolitical networks—whose workings are reconfiguring and rescaling political authority in the city. Mumbai’s increasingly illegible and volatile hydrologies, Björkman argues, are lending infrastructures increasing political salience just as actual control over pipes and flows becomes contingent on dispersed and intimate assemblages of knowledge, power, and material authority. These new arenas of contestation reveal the illusory and precarious nature of the project to remake Mumbai in the image of Shanghai or Singapore and gesture instead toward the highly contested futures and democratic possibilities of the actually existing city.
Автор: Bjorkman Kathi a. Название: Third Eye Witness-Bearer of Truth ISBN: 0996267018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996267014 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2200.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Third Eye Witness-Bearer of Truth takes the reader on a journey filled with mystery, clues, paranormal assistance, conspiracy theories, and crime. Martine follows both earthly and etheric promptings to uncover an ancient agenda that causes and manipulates people and nations.
Автор: Bjorkman Timothy W. Название: Verne Sankey: America`s First Public Enemy ISBN: 0806155914 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806155913 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2753.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In late January of 1934, as authorities delivered John Dillinger to an Indiana jail, the United States Justice Department announced, for the first time, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had just captured America's Public Enemy No. 1. It was not Dillinger the Justice Department was referring to, but an affable railroader turned outlaw, Verne Sankey. Now Timothy W. Bjorkman has written the first full-length biography of this overlooked criminal, relating how a South Dakota family man became a bootlegger, a bank robber, and eventually, a kidnapper whose deeds heralded a nationwide crime spree.In the early days of Prohibition, Sankey, then a locomotive engineer, was drawn to the easy money he could make bootlegging. When crime syndicates monopolized the trade and Prohibition's end was in sight, he turned to the occasional bank robbery and eventually to a ransom scheme. In tracing the life of Sankey - and his demure wife, Fern - Bjorkman depicts a good-natured man, friendly neighbor, and gentleman rumrunner catering to the banker and broker trade. He also explores Sankey's motivations, his identification as America's first Public Enemy, and his ultimate descent into oblivion.Verne Sankey: America's First Public Enemy is a riveting narrative set amid the Great Depression. Bjorkman's research painstakingly reveals the life of Verne Sankey and his times, delving into the intriguing story of the family of his kidnapping victim, Charles Boettcher II, and the stark contrast between wealth and poverty during some of America's most harrowing days.
Автор: Bjorkman Gwen Boyer Название: . Gwen Boyer ISBN: 0788401459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780788401459 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2897.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The earliest Turner families in Fauquier County, Virginia, were William, Edward and James Turner, who each in 1747 made leases for Three Lives with Peter Hedgman. Willliam Turner's lease was for the term of his life and the lives of his two sons, John Meridy and William. The seven chapters of this book contain the seven generations of the descendants of John Meridy Turner (1747-1815). Each chapter begins with a summary of the Turner family in the particular geographical area being dealt with in each generation. This Turner family lived in Fauquier and Shenandoah Counties, Virginia; Licking County, Ohio; Scotland and Clark Counties, Missouri; Clackamas County, Oregon; and Columbia County, Washington. The Modified Register system is used for the genealogy and all statements are fully documented in notes at the end of each chapter. There is significant information included on the allied lines of Brown, Cooke, Crown, Martin, and Smith. The book is illustrated with ahnentafel charts, maps, tables, land tracts, and photos. A full-name index makes the book easy to use. Anyone who has worked on the Turner family in Virginia knows the difficulty of working on a common-place name. At least three other Turner families were living in Fauquier County during the same time period that John Meridy Turner was there. This book will help you in learning what resources are available and how to proceed if research has led you to these Turners. Research on this Turner family extended over twenty-eight years. The author won the National Genealogical Society Family History Writing Contest in 1987 and has previously published four books of abstracted records with Heritage Books.
Автор: Bjorkman Kathi Ann Название: Third Eye Witness ISBN: 0615801811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615801810 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2338.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Some children walk to school; others ride a bus. Children go by ferry in New York, vaporetto in Italy, trolley car in San Francisco, and helicopter in the Alaskan Tundra. With fun-filled rhymes and colorful illustrations, children will discover just how much fun getting to school can be.
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