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<title><![CDATA[Going with the flow: sustainable water management 
as ontological cleaving. Stephanie Lavau]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this paper, I consider what it might be to do sustainable management through 
a case study of the Goulburn River in southeastern Australia. Rather than evaluating 
sustainable development as more or less successful techniques, or as competing discourses 
of integrating resource use and environmental protection, I attend to sustainable 
management as ontological work. Engaging with work on relational materiality, I tell of 
irrigation water and environmental water as emergent in particular gatherings of practices, 
technologies, and stories of river management and rural life. I argue that sustainable 
management of the Goulburn’s flow performs ontological cleaving: ontological multiplicity 
is both drawn together and held apart. Through processes of translation and segregation, 
irrigation water and environmental water are made to intermingle, whilst sustaining 
ontological difference. This paper contributes to the consideration of how ontological 
difference is managed and extends recent work on the materialities of water. In doing so, 
it engages with concerns about the politics of water management and confronts social 
science critiques about the ambiguity of sustainable development.
<br>
<b>Keywords:</b> sustainable development, water, river management, ontological politics, 
relational materiality, technoscience
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<title><![CDATA[“Security here is not safe”: violence, punishment, and 
space in the contemporary US penitentiary. Karen M Morin]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The US penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, was retrofitted in 2008 to offer 
the country’s first federal Special Management Unit (SMU) program of its kind. This 
model SMU is designed for federal inmates from around the country identified as the 
most intractably troublesome, and features double-celling of inmates in tiny spaces, in 
23-hour or 24-hour a day lockdown, requiring them to pass through a two-year program 
of readjustment. These spatial tactics, and the philosophy of punishment underlying 
them, contrast with the modern reform ideals upon which the prison was designed and 
built in 1932. The SMU represents the latest punitive phase in American penology, one 
that neither simply eliminates men as in the premodern spectacle, nor creates the docile, 
rehabilitated bodies of the modern panopticon; rather, it is a late-modern structure that 
produces only fear, terror, violence, and death. This SMU represents the latest of the latemodern prisons, similar to other supermax facilities in the US but offering its own unique 
system of punishment as well. While the prison exists within the system of American law 
and jurisprudence, it also manifests features of Agamben’s lawless, camp-like space that 
emerges during a state of exception, exempt from outside scrutiny with inmate treatment 
typically beyond the scope of the law.
<br>
<b>Keywords:</b> prison, violence, supermax, punishment, state of exception, USP Lewisburg
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<dc:title><![CDATA[“Security here is not safe”: violence, punishment, and 
space in the contemporary US penitentiary]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Rhizomic radicalism and arborescent advocacy: 
a Deleuzo-Guattarian reading of rural protest. Michael Woods, Jon Anderson, Steven Guilbert, Suzie Watkin]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It has become commonplace to describe new social movements as ‘rhizomic’ in 
form, yet the full implications of this metaphor are rarely teased out, and the corollary 
that other political organisations are arborescent in form has been largely neglected 
in social science research. In this paper we employ Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of 
rhizomic and arborescent assemblages to theorise a transition in the practice of political 
representation, drawing on an empirical study of British rural politics. We outline the 
principles of arborescent political assemblages, associated with traditional forms of 
political organisation, and the principles of rhizomic politics, associated with new social 
movements and protest activity. However, we proceed to argue that the binary opposition 
of arborescent and rhizomic forms of political assemblage is misleading, and contend 
that the spatial strategies associated with the state as an arborescent machine are critical 
to understanding both the lines of flight that produce periodic rhizomic flaring, and the 
entanglement of rhizomes and arborescent structures that mean that rhizomic politics 
never entirely escapes the arborescent. Therefore, the paper suggests that the rhizomic 
character of new social movements is not a revolutionary shift in political organisation, but 
rather is part of the ongoing, dynamic, and cyclical interplay of rhizomic and arborescent 
forms.<br>
<b>Keywords:</b> social movements, rhizomes, Deleuze, rural protest, United Kingdom
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Rhizomic radicalism and arborescent advocacy: 
a Deleuzo-Guattarian reading of rural protest]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Plastic eternities and the mosaic of landscape. Chris Van Dyke]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In recent years nonrepresentational theory has been applied with increasing 
frequency to landscape studies. This paper responds to this trend in two ways. First, through 
a close reading of John Wylie and Mitch Rose’s writings, I critique the application of 
nonrepresentational theory to landscape interpretation. While nonrepresentational theory 
has, crucially, highlighted the importance of performativity, affect, excess, and relationality, 
it has been imperfectly translated to landscape studies. Landscape studies grounded in 
nonrepresentational theory overburden the landscape with philosophical and theoretical 
propositions, which has the effect of exonerating landscapes from their temporal, spatial, 
and visual circumstances. Second, drawing mainly on the work of Catherine Malabou and 
Bruno Latour, I suggest that different metaphors and concepts are needed to improve landscape studies: plasticity and a revamped, historical account of relationality. The aim of this 
paper is to establish a means of visualizing the dynamics of landscape and their historical 
mutability, with the intention of producing readings that are more ecumenical, and avoid 
the theoretical reductionism found in current nonrepresentational accounts of landscape. <br>
<b>Keywords:</b> cultural landscapes, nonrepresentational theory, plasticity, landscape ecology, 
relational thought
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Plastic eternities and the mosaic of landscape]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[The Butler affair and the geopolitics of identity. Gerry Kearns]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Global War on Terror, Judith Butler has written of the &#8216;precarity&#8217; of life, of the inevitable vulnerability of one&#8217;s life in the face of the actions of strangers. Refusing to accept this, the United States has developed a form of nationalism that claims invulnerability for its citizens while treating as expendable the lives of distant others who even unwittingly associate with those who threaten the US homeland. Butler has extended this set of criticisms to Israel&#8217;s policy towards Palestinian people and in doing so has been criticised as anti-Semitic. She has engaged with these questions about Jewish identity, nationalism, and toleration through an engagement with writers of the&#160;Jewish&#160;diaspora, developing what we may describe as a geopolitical perspective on identity. The value of such a perspective was given ironic point by the public controversy over the award to Butler of the Adorno Prize in 2012. This paper argues also that in responding to the biopolitics of the Global War on Terror, Butler has elaborated on some of the geopolitical bases of identity and in doing so has illuminated the academic politics of the&#160;current Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign called for by many institutions of Palestinian civil society.
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        <b>Keywords:</b> Judith Butler, biopolitics, geopolitics, Israel, Palestine, Global War on Terror
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<dc:title><![CDATA[The Butler affair and the geopolitics of identity]]></dc:title>
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<prism:number>2</prism:number>
<prism:volume>31</prism:volume>
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<title><![CDATA[Insensible worlds: postrelational ethics, indeterminacy and the (k)nots of relating. Kathryn Yusoff]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Within the context of biodiversity loss, this paper asks the question: What&#160;is response? In asking how responsibility is raised as a sensible question, I argue there is&#160;a need to address the insensible, immaterial, and untimely dimensions of matter and relations. I suggest that thinking along the cusp of the insensible offers a way into an expanded realm of relationality that queries the exclusions that govern the sphere of intelligibility, and help us think between natures to promote a noncontemporaneous ethics of apprehension. Taking up Jean-Luc Nancy&#8217;s concept of sense and specifically his ideas around the direction of sense, I argue that the insensible is a realm of possibility within the praxis of social and affective norms of sense that may release other modes of being into being. This is a paper about sense as matter forming, as cohabitation, and as an exclusionary tactic that bears on the cohabitation of worlds. I argue that an understanding of how sense is enrolled into our habits of thought and theories of materialities is crucial if we are to create new practices of sensations and new sensibilities around such diffuse, recalcitrant, and dislocated issues as biodiversity loss, new forms of biotechnological life, and climate change. I conclude that if the insensible alerts us to the work of sense in securing the bringing into relation, its configurations, and its a priori orientations, then it also points towards modes of exclusion and forms of resistance in our thinking with nonhuman others that are before and beyond relationality.
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Insensible worlds: postrelational ethics, indeterminacy and the (k)nots of relating]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[The making of a void sovereignty: political implications of the military checkpoints in the West Bank. Merav Amir]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Research on the Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank has emphasized not only that these checkpoints have dire implications for the Palestinians living there, at the personal, familial, and communal levels, and devastating effects on the Palestinian economy, but also that they have far-reaching consequences for the ability of the Palestinians to establish an independent political entity. At the same time, analysis of the&#160;Israeli forms of domination over the Palestinians has also stressed the role of a Palestinian governing authority in sustaining the Israeli rule, since the former relieves the latter of its responsibility to care for the occupied Palestinian population. This paper aims to address this apparent contradiction claiming that a comprehensive analysis of Israeli forms of domination requires a spatial examination of the operation of sovereignty with an assessment of governmentalizing arrays. This combined analysis suggests that a Palestinian sovereignty, but one which is emptied of its actual ruling power, is construed at the checkpoints as an epiphenomenon of Israeli apparatuses of control.
      <br>
        <b>Keywords:</b> sovereignty, governmentality, borders, Israel, Palestine, checkpoints, West Bank
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<dc:identifier>info:doi/10.1069/d19810</dc:identifier>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The making of a void sovereignty: political implications of the military checkpoints in the West Bank]]></dc:title>
<dc:publisher>Pion Ltd</dc:publisher>
<prism:number>2</prism:number>
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<title><![CDATA[Adopting the position of error: space and speculation in the exploratory significance of milieu formulations. Nathaniel O’Grady]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As Foucault&#8217;s writing on the role of population in managing societies through security would attest, the term milieu is not primarily a tool for analysing primary data. Instead, it is a means to model data on population according to specific spatial parameters, and a means of structuring examination of populations in a particular way. The importance of space is also apparent in Canguilhem&#8217;s work on the notion of milieu in his writings on bacteriology and organism development. Although the contexts in which the term is deployed are different, both thinkers show how the notion of milieu allows observation of heterogeneous elements in relation to one another, in terms of the movement of elements studied and what possible points of intersection may be forged between elements. In spite of the different research contexts in which each author uses the term, both can be seen to share an understanding of the milieu according to its epistemological qualities. What is stressed in both Foucault&#8217;s and Canguilhem&#8217;s accounts is an indication of the structural parameters which characterise the milieu. These parameters work to enframe the circulation of that which is being observed. From this structure, particular forms of knowledge concerning that which is examined are produced by the milieu model. In this paper I argue that both Foucault and Canguilhem show how the milieu facilitates thinking, and produces knowledge, that is speculative. As such, the paper can explore how, through their understanding of the milieu, the authors make claims which describe speculative thinking in its practice.
      <br>
        <b>Keywords:</b> milieu, Foucault, Canguilhem, speculation, space
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Adopting the position of error: space and speculation in the exploratory significance of milieu formulations]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Differentiated circuits: the ecologies of knowing and securing life. Steve Hinchliffe, Stephanie Lavau]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The question of how to make life secure in a world of zoonotic disease threats is often answered in terms of an ever-tighter regulation of wild, domestic, and human life, as a means to control disease. Conversely, in both theoretical and practical engagements with the business of making life safe, there is recognition of the circulatory and excessive qualities of life, its ability to overflow grids of intelligibility, and a requirement for knowledge practices to be responsive to a mutable world. In this paper we use empirical work on the field and laboratory practices involved in knowing life, specifically within the UK&#8217;s avian influenza wild bird survey, in order to argue strongly for a form of biosecurity that does not seek to integrate life or the practices that make it intelligible into grids and closed circuits. Extending work by Latour, we argue that the truth-value of life science not only stems from the circulation of references along a single chain of reference; it is also dependent upon the productive alliance of knowledge forms and practices that are loosely brought together in this process. By demonstrating the range of practices, materials, and movements involved in making life knowable, we claim that it is the spatial configurations of knowledge practices, organisms, and materials, their ongoing differentiation and not their integration, that make safe life a possibility.
      <br>
        <b>Keywords:</b> biosecurity, geographies of knowledge, human<i>&#8211;</i>nonhuman relations, avian influenza, surveillance
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Differentiated circuits: the ecologies of knowing and securing life]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Exploring political ecologies of water and development. Jessica Budds, Farhana Sultana]]></title>
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<dc:identifier>info:doi/10.1069/d3102</dc:identifier>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Exploring political ecologies of water and development]]></dc:title>
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<prism:number>2</prism:number>
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<title><![CDATA[Constructing &#8216;public&#8217; water: the World Bank, urban water supply, and the biopolitics of development. Karen Bakker]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This paper presents a historical analysis of the evolution of the World Bank&#8217;s policies on urban water supply networks, from 1960 to the late 1980s. The analysis frames urban water supply as an attempt (contested and incomplete) to extend the biopolitical power of developmental states. I argue that the World Bank&#8217;s agenda was predicated on a set of contradictions (and an untenable public/private binary) that contributed to the emergence of &#8216;state failure&#8217; arguments by the late 1980s. This perspective enables critical reflection on the historical origins of the concept of &#8216;state failure&#8217;, and on contemporary debates over urbanization, infrastructure, and development.
      <br>
        <b>Keywords:</b> water, World Bank, public, biopolitics, development
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Constructing &#8216;public&#8217; water: the World Bank, urban water supply, and the biopolitics of development]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Water, power, and the production of neoliberalism in Chile, 1973&#8211;2005. Jessica Budds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chile&#8217;s free-market economic and political reforms, designed and implemented under General Pinochet&#8217;s military regime (1973&#8211;90), have been important in discussions of neoliberal public policy and environmental governance. However, understandings of how and why these reforms unfolded often overlook the complex power dynamics involved. This paper examines the role of water in consolidating the design, implementation, and outcomes of Chile&#8217;s neoliberal programme, through the contested production, retention, and reform of the 1981 Water Code. Drawing on the idea that water and power are mutually constitutive, it demonstrates the significance of the transition to private tradable water rights with minimal state regulation not only for changing social relationships with water, but also for consolidating the neoliberal programme and the ambitions of the military regime, government technocrats, and business groups. I make three related arguments: first, that water was more central to the formation and effectiveness of the neoliberal programme in Chile, and the ambitions of its core supporters than hitherto acknowledged; second, that political interest groups, and their alliances, can play crucial roles in neoliberalising nature; and third, that water reforms consolidate power relationships and produce waterscapes in particular ways.
      <br>
        <b>Keywords:</b> water, neoliberalism, Chile, power, coconstitution, technocracy
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<title><![CDATA[Disciplining de&#160;facto development: water theft and hydrosocial order in Tijuana. Katharine Meehan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Informal and illegal water provision is increasingly targeted as an impediment to state authorities and water development in the Global South. In contrast, this paper uses a biopolitical approach to argue that state authorities use illegal forms of water provision as a source of power, particularly to discipline certain spaces and sectors of the population; and moreover, that such power geometries are deeply uneven. To support these claims, I examine the production and enforcement of illegal provision in two communities located in Tijuana, Mexico. I examine how water theft functions<i>&#8212;</i>including the key objects and practices that shape the illicit abstraction and distribution of water<i>&#8212;</i>and then examine how water theft is policed and enforced by state authorities. Following Foucault, I suggest these processes occur on a bodily and infrastructural level to discipline water users. Findings indicate that while water theft supplies a vital resource for marginalized citizens<i>&#8212;</i>often in communal ways that exceed state power<i>&#8212;</i>the alternating tolerance and repression of water illegality is largely used by authorities to maintain hydrosocial order and, in effect, to control informal modes of development. The paper concludes with implications for understanding water informality and the uneven spatiality of state power.
      <br>
        <b>Keywords:</b> water, illegality, informal development, state power, Tijuana
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<title><![CDATA[Water, technology, and development: transformations of development technonatures in changing waterscapes. Farhana Sultana]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Delivering safe drinking water is often equated with delivering development in much of the Global South. Yet different arrangements of technologies, waters, and social relations constitute uneven waterscapes and produce different water &#8211; society relations across sites and scales. Analyzing the contradictory roles of water-producing technologies and differentiated waters in enabling and challenging processes of development thus becomes important to explaining the political ecologies of development. In order to investigate the technonatural relations of power that constitute development, I look at the ways that different types of waters, water technologies, nature (aquifers, groundwater, arsenic), and power relations coproduce water (in)securities and (un)healthy development subjects, with a case study from waterscapes of the Bengal Delta. Contaminated tubewells have resulted in a drinking water crisis and a reconfiguration of hydro &#8211; social relations. Groundwater usage for drinking water purposes was introduced via tubewell technology, creating a public health success story as &#8216;safe&#8217; groundwater offered alternatives to the consumption of unsafe surface water sources that had caused high morbidity and mortality rates. But a situation of millions of tubewells producing water with unsafe levels&#160;of naturally occurring arsenic has resulted in challenging such development narratives of success, where the tubewells that embodied social status and notions of progress (producing &#8216;good water&#8217;) came to slowly poison people across the delta (with &#8216;bad water&#8217;). I detail the ways that hybrid waters (safe/unsafe/untested and good/bad) and the discourses of water poisoning are produced by water technologies, aquifers, and social relations that are enrolled to support notions of development; in addition, I critically analyze the ways that development goes awry when these technonatural assemblages are unexpectedly altered by the agencies and materialities of variously contaminated waters, differentiated aquifers, and the changing status of water-producing technologies. In contributing to political &#8211; ecological analyses of water and technology, I raise questions about the troubled relationship between development and so-called appropriate technologies by bringing attention to the articulations and mutual enrollments of technologies, ecologies, discourses, and subjects in the technonatural processes of development.
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        Keywords: technonature, political ecology, water, technology, development, tubewell, arsenic
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Water, technology, and development: transformations of development technonatures in changing waterscapes]]></dc:title>
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<prism:number>2</prism:number>
<prism:volume>31</prism:volume>
<prism:endingPage>353</prism:endingPage>
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<prism:startingPage>337</prism:startingPage>
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<title><![CDATA[&#8220;On the network, off the map&#8221;: developing intervillage and intragender differentiation in rural water supply. Trevor Birkenholtz]]></title>
<link>http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=d11510</link>
<description><![CDATA[Despite decades of water-supply development programs in the Global South, their effect on gendered access to water remains both unclear and contradictory. This paper addresses this lacuna by examining the expansion of a rural water-supply network aimed at reducing household water scarcity in the arid zone of Rajasthan, India. Specifically, the Indira Gandhi Canal was conceived and constructed during the green revolution to &#8216;green the Thar Desert&#8217;. But now, through a complex network of reservoirs, treatment facilities, distribution centers, and supply pipelines, it connects much of rural and urban western Rajasthan to a drinking water-supply network. The paper examines the interaction of water-supply technologies, social power relations studying and dynamic socioecological change operating within these development processes. To do so it draws on household surveys, interviews with water users and government engineers, and participant observation with women and children water collectors. The paper finds that this ongoing water development project rendered the water provision landscape technical on the&#160;surface, but that uneven flows of water between villages and people reveal a more complex water provision landscape. The expansion of the network based on a technical reimagining of&#160;water supply has resulted in intervillage scarcity, intragender differential access, usurious private water markets, the abandonment and then the proposed rehabilitation of traditional water bodies, and urban water logging. In the conclusion I argue for a rethinking of water-supply development programs through a political ecology approach that focuses on the emergent capacities of water-supply technologies to redirect existing socioecological associations in unanticipated ways. Looking at the relationship between nature&#8211;society and technology may illuminate the possible ruptures in these associations and the ways that they may be rearticulated to produce less differentiating modes of accessing water.
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        <b>Keywords:</b> political ecology, water, power, gender, scarcity, India
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<dc:identifier>info:doi/10.1069/d11510</dc:identifier>
<dc:title><![CDATA[&#8220;On the network, off the map&#8221;: developing intervillage and intragender differentiation in rural water supply]]></dc:title>
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<prism:number>2</prism:number>
<prism:volume>31</prism:volume>
<prism:endingPage>371</prism:endingPage>
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<prism:startingPage>354</prism:startingPage>
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<title><![CDATA[Review essay: The reassertion of race, space, and punishment’s place in urban
sociology and critical criminology. Thomas E Reifer]]></title>
<link>http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=d311r1</link>
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<dc:identifier>info:doi/10.1069/d311r1</dc:identifier>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Review essay: The reassertion of race, space, and punishment’s place in urban
sociology and critical criminology]]></dc:title>
<dc:publisher>Pion Ltd</dc:publisher>
<prism:number>2</prism:number>
<prism:volume>31</prism:volume>
<prism:endingPage>380</prism:endingPage>
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<prism:startingPage>372</prism:startingPage>
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