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Fighting for water : resisting privatization in Europe / Andreas Bieler.
Lippincott Library HD4456 .B54 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bieler, Andreas, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply--Europe.
- Water-supply.
- Water utilities--Europe.
- Water utilities.
- Water utilities--Privatization--Europe.
- Municipal water supply--Political aspects--Europe.
- Municipal water supply.
- Water utilities--Deregulation--Europe.
- Right to water--Europe.
- Right to water.
- Deregulation.
- Privatization.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- x, 210 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Zed Books, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Resisting Water Privatization: An Introduction
- Introduction
- Conceptualizing water struggles
- Overview of the book
- Notes
- ch. 2 Capitalism's Relentless Thirst for Accumulation
- Capitalist accumulation and the relentless drive to outward expansion
- The global economic crisis of the 1970s and its resolution
- Global financial crisis, transnational capital and the privatization of water
- Conclusion
- ch. 3 Mobilizing from Below: Victory in the Italian Water Referendum
- The road to victory
- La lotta continua: The aftermath of the 2011 referendum
- Ongoing struggles: The examples of Arezzo, Turin and Naples
- Conclusion: Lasting legacies of the Italian water movement
- ch. 4 Water is a Human Right: The First European Citizens' Initiative Over Public Water
- Mobilizing for change
- EU policy-making within capitalist structuring conditions
- Conclusion: Links of transnational solidarity
- ch. 5 Contesting the Troika: Resistance in Greece Against Imposed Water Privatization
- In the claws of the Eurozone crisis
- Fighting against water privatization
- Capital strikes back
- Conclusion: Residues of resistance
- Note
- ch. 6 `We Will Strike, We Will Fight, Water is a Human Right': The Irish People Rise Up
- From agricultural autarky to export-oriented development
- Social partnership and the lack of resistance against austerity
- The Irish people rise up: No to water charges
- Conclusion: In search of new forms of democracy
- ch. 7 Transforming Capitalism Towards the Commons?
- Key factors sustaining the success of water struggles
- The human right to water as a progressive strategy?
- Participatory democracy and the transformation of water
- Conclusion: Open-ended struggles over the future of water
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-206) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781786993250
- 1786993252
- 9781786995087
- 1786995085
- OCLC:
- 1246540016
- Publisher Number:
- 99988528591
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