Democracy and Global Water Politics in Historical Perspective

Against Water Privatization

Esteban Castro (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2024 | 2022 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-21210-7 (ISBN)

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This book addresses water privatization from a historical-sociological perspective and argues against the unrelenting imposition of neoprivatist water politics worldwide. Water is essential for life, but it is also a source of economic and political power. Prevailing water politics continues to erode the conditions of dignified living conditions of millions of human beings around the world, including many living in Western capitalist democracies. The book revisits water-related myths, fake truths, and authoritarian practices promoted or employed by International Financial Institutions, governments, and other powerful actors to keep enforcing long-failed policies grounded on ideological dogmas and short-term interests and argues for the substantive democratization of water politics and management. It rejects claims of scientific ‘neutrality’ from academics and other actors across the political spectrum who are co-responsible for the perpetuation of these conditions, interrogating the ethics of scientific-political pragmatism.

Jose Esteban Castro is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. He is a corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and a regular Visiting Professor in universities in Europe and Latin America. Previous books include Water, Power, and Citizenship. Social Struggle in the Basin of Mexico (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Water and Sanitation Services. Public Policy and Management, coedited with L. Heller (2009, 2011), and Time, Science, and the Critique of Technological Reason, coedited with B. Fowler, and L. Gomes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Introduction Privatism and Exclusionary Water Politics Social Regulation and the Reproduction of Water Inequality The Revival of Water Privatism in the Late 20th Century A Failed Privatist Utopia Privatization's Legacy: The Structural Forces of Water Inequality and Injustice Defending the Common Good: Water Struggles and Substantive Citizenship Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.8.2024
Zusatzinfo	224 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-230-21210-7 / 0230212107
ISBN-13	978-0-230-21210-7 / 9780230212107
Zustand	Neuware