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Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe

By Andreas Bieler

Book information

Publisher
Zed Books Ltd.
Year
2021
ISBN
1786997738, 9781786997739
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1294017 bytes)
Pages
288\193
Time added
2022-12-20 22:43:50

Description

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. From the successful referendum against water privatization in Italy, via 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.

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