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Chapter 1. City Water matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Public Water features: assembling publics, enlivening spaces, promoting regeneration -- Chapter 3. Consuming Water: habits, rituals and state interventions -- Chapter 4. River Powers: assembling publics, connections and materials in a global city -- Chapter 5. Embodied water entanglements: sex/gender, race/ethnicity and class urban practices of cleanliness and sanitation -- Chapter 6. Public waters: the passions, pleasures and politics of bathing in the city -- Chapter 7. Differentiating Water: Cultural Practices and Contestations -- Chapter 8. Water Traces in Urban Space -- Chapter 9. A Final Word

Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. In such times, questions of the public realm and public space in cities warrant even greater attention than previously received.Concerned with the borders and boundaries, constraints and limits on accepting, acknowledging and celebrating difference in public, Sophie Watson, through ethnographic studies, interrogates how difference is negotiated and performed. Focusing on spaces where to outside observers tension is relatively absent or invisi

This paper proposes new key ways to thinking about self-organisation in cities in what, I suggest, are increasingly unsettled and turbulent times. The importance of thinking about self-organisation in cities is all the more salient in the current economic and social context where in many parts of the world there is a withdrawal by the state from public involvement and expenditure, which is impacting on urban citizens, particularly those who are vulnerable, in increasing negative ways. Self-organisation is thus an important and key direction for the future, if cities are to remain inclusive, just and responsive to local needs. Yet such self-organisation can only be truly meaningful and effective if it is conducted collaboratively and democratically, involving as many people as possible, particularly those whose voices are not often heard. In so doing, it is also important to recognise that such involvement and democratic participation is not always consensual; rather conflict is inevitable and potentially positive, as people learnt to recognises their differences which are often implicated in power, and to negotiate solutions together.

This paper draws on a series of detailed, qualitative interviews with senior British civil servants to explore the development and implementation of equal opportunity policy in the Civil Service. Introduced in the early 1980s, it was designed to reduce the importance attached to masculine traits in the recruitment and promotion of staff, including those on the fast track to senior positions. The paper concludes by arguing that career progression still depends heavily on giving the impression of being 'the right sort of chap', which itself embodies a set of attributes which happen to be more prevalent in men than in women.

Examines the largely unsuccessful attempts to implement the policy of equal opportunity for women in career progression introduced in the 1980s; Great Britain.