Anke Schwarz
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Anke Schwarz is a political and urban geographer who specializes in theories of territorialization, international urbanization, future geographies, and geographies of Speculative and Science Fiction. She holds a PhD in Human Geography, and received a venia legendi (habilitation) from TU Dresden. Currently, she is a senior lecturer in Human Geography at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Anke is a founding member of the Terra-R network (DFG-Netzwerk Territorializations of the Radical Right), member of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG).
Anke Schwarz is a political and urban geographer who specializes in theories of territorialization, international urbanization, future geographies, and geographies of Speculative and Science Fiction. She holds a PhD in Human Geography, and received a venia legendi (habilitation) from TU Dresden. Currently, she is a senior lecturer in Human Geography at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Anke is a founding member of the Terra-R network (DFG-Netzwerk Territorializations of the Radical Right), member of the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG).
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This book demonstrates how using water can turn into a demanding everyday task even in cities where virtually all dwellings do have water taps. It sheds a light on everyday practices of water use in Mexico City in the realms of drinking, personal hygiene, and domestic storage, and their relation to past and current supply conditions. Across all these sets of practices, influential urban imaginations with respect to the logic of urban water supply and a widespread mistrust in the potability of tap water are at play, and marked differences arise between waters used for body-related and more technical purposes. Other than expected, current water supply conditions seem to influence much stronger on domestic practices of water use than people’s past experiences. Keeping water in domestic storage tanks, waiting for water provision to resume, reusing domestic grey water, and the ubiquitous consumption of bottled water have all become essential everyday practices in Mexico City amidst unequal and often unreliable patterns of water supply reinforced by processes of neoliberal urbanization and infrastructural unbundling. Women in poorer parts of the metropolis are the ones bearing the brunt of such exclusionary configurations of urban space. Serving as a reminder that a water tap in the home alone does not guarantee proper access to water, the present book develops a sociospatial, subject-based approach to explore everyday practices and experiences in the realm of water. Such an approach is relevant beyond the example of Mexico City presented here, as a permanent water supply of a potable quality remains the exception rather than the rule in many cities around the world.
Papers by Anke Schwarz
This book demonstrates how using water can turn into a demanding everyday task even in cities where virtually all dwellings do have water taps. It sheds a light on everyday practices of water use in Mexico City in the realms of drinking, personal hygiene, and domestic storage, and their relation to past and current supply conditions. Across all these sets of practices, influential urban imaginations with respect to the logic of urban water supply and a widespread mistrust in the potability of tap water are at play, and marked differences arise between waters used for body-related and more technical purposes. Other than expected, current water supply conditions seem to influence much stronger on domestic practices of water use than people’s past experiences. Keeping water in domestic storage tanks, waiting for water provision to resume, reusing domestic grey water, and the ubiquitous consumption of bottled water have all become essential everyday practices in Mexico City amidst unequal and often unreliable patterns of water supply reinforced by processes of neoliberal urbanization and infrastructural unbundling. Women in poorer parts of the metropolis are the ones bearing the brunt of such exclusionary configurations of urban space. Serving as a reminder that a water tap in the home alone does not guarantee proper access to water, the present book develops a sociospatial, subject-based approach to explore everyday practices and experiences in the realm of water. Such an approach is relevant beyond the example of Mexico City presented here, as a permanent water supply of a potable quality remains the exception rather than the rule in many cities around the world.
This chapter’s empirical case study of Mexico City foregrounds urbanization and territorialization as key to a situated understanding of territory as a social product. We furthermore engage in a decentered perspective that focuses on the spatial dimension of power relations, with an emphasis on non-state actors such as city inhabitants and their ordinary urban practices and resistance against a large-scale infrastructure project. By grasping the epistemological and empirical complexities of a socio-territorial approach, this contribution aims to put territory to use for the transdisciplinary field of urban studies.