'Day Zero', Hydraulic Citizenship and the Defence of the Commons in Cape Town: A Case Study of the Politics of Water and its Infrastructures (2017-2018)

This article examines how the continuing drought and water crisis in Cape Town in 2017 and 2018 created the conditions for the increasing visibility and public awareness of water and its infrastructures. Following Susan Leigh Star's famous observation that infrastructure is typically invisible...

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Published in:	Journal of southern African studies Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 5 - 29
Main Author:	Robins, Steven
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Routledge 02.01.2019 Taylor & Francis, Ltd Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:	Activism Activists African studies Case studies Cities Citizenship commodification Common lands Conservation Consumption Crises Drought Infrastructure Journalists Middle class Morality Natural disasters Perceptions Political participation Politics Privatization Production Public access Reservoirs Residents Sanitation Scientists Social classes Suburban areas Swimming Swimming pools Tariffs the commons Visibility Water Water conservation Water shortages Water supply South Africa Cape Town South Africa
ISSN:	0305-7070, 1465-3893
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