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a middle-class suburban world of
plenitude and privilege when its
denizens turn on the tap and no water
pours out of it. Who do they turn to
and with what ends in mind? How do
they express their frustrations, and who
do they blame? How do they construct
understandings of the realities of the
often tap-less and decidedly
unprivileged world outside the borders
of leafy neo-liberal suburbia? The paper
is informed by theoretical writings on
urban geography. These writings
provide an understanding of the suburb
as a social artefact, and they offer an
illuminating lens through which one can
look at the water narratives that issue
from neoliberal suburbia, characterized
as it is by [white]privilege.”
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