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The Exclusionary City, Political Statehood and a Thirsty Population

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Urban dilemmas represent today some of the most challenging questions for Latin American governments and society. The region is one of the most urbanised in the world and has a significant proportion of its population living in large, chaotic metropolitan areas, including a growing number of megacities. A proper examination of large-scale urbanisation requires a coherent framework of analysis, as discussed in the chapter, able to address metropolitan changes, sociospatial inequalities and multiple forms of interaction and reaction. The key player behind urban transformations has been the state apparatus, which must be understood as a constantly evolving entity, fraught with contradictions and conflicting interests. Water policy-making demonstrates the territorialisation of sociospatial disputes, the diversity of interventions and multiscale agency and identity.

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Ioris, A.A.R. (2015). The Exclusionary City, Political Statehood and a Thirsty Population. In: Water, State and the City. Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137468673_2

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