Drinking Water Arrangements in Bangkok
Drinking Water Arrangements in Bangkok
Accommodating Bottles
This chapter investigates provisional drinking water arrangements in Bangkok households. When the quality of tap water is not trusted, the process of arranging drinking water entails a certain amount of practical labour. This involves collaboration with a range of human and nonhuman others in the household and beyond. Various objects, technologies and commodities have emerged to service this need, marketing themselves as convenient solutions to the problem. We consider how bottled water is imbued with value in this context and how this interferes with other water ontologies. Conceiving the household as it is practiced enables new ontological realities for drinking water to be created. ‘Convenience’ is a relational achievement.
Keywords: Bangkok, Convenience, Domestic Water, Market Qualification, Marketing, Domestic Routines
MIT Press Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
