'If no gasoline, no water': Privatizing drinking water quality in South Texas colonias

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1032-1048

  Jepson, Wendy ^a   Lee Brown, Heather ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enclosure; Neoliberalism; Socionature; Subjectivity; Texas; Water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901014230     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a46170     Document Type: Article

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