Fighting for Water

Resisting Privatization in Europe

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Andreas Bieler

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In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe. At the same time, the struggle against water privatization has continued to pick up pace; from the re-municipalization of water in Grenoble in 2000, to the United Nations declaration of water as a human right in 2010.In Fighting for Water, Andreas Bieler draws on years of extensive fieldwork to dissect the underlying dynamics of the struggle for public water in Europe. By analysing the successful referendum against water privatization in Italy, the European Citizens’ Initiative on ‘Water and Sanitation are a Human Right’, the struggles against water privatization in Greece and water charges in Ireland, Bieler shows why water has been a fruitful arena for resistance against neoliberal restructuring.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-06-17
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt284 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781786995087

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Chapter 1 – Resisting water privatisation: An introduction. Chapter 2 – Capitalism’s relentless thirst for accumulationChapter 3 – Mobilising from below: the victory in the Italian water referendum Chapter 4 – Water is a Human Right: The first European Citizens’ Initiative over public waterChapter 5 – Contesting the Troika: resistance in Greece against imposed water privatisationChapter 6 – ‘We will strike, we will fight, water is a human right’: The Irish people rise upChapter 7 – Transforming capitalism towards the commons?

This book is an inspiring read. It is based on extensive research and interviews with trade union- and water movement- activists . It shows that the water struggles and resistance to privatisation in several countries and for the human right to water and sanitation at EU level are part of a broader fight to move beyond capitalism. Critical but always sympathetic and engaged the book finds what joint campaigns of social movements can achieve. These will be valuable lessons in the years to come when we face the aftermath of the pandemic’s economic crisis of 2020 and we will demand the redistribution of wealth.