Conflicts over water are human-caused events with socio-political and economic causes. From the Movement of People Against Dams in Brazil to environmental activists in Pittsburgh, people are coming together to fight for control of their water.
This book examines how movements are communicating and organizing against water privatisation and other forms of water grabbing, and explores how movements engage with and learn from each other. Water is at the heart of this book, but Schroering's work is as much about collective struggle and popular organisation as it is about water. Based on extensive fieldwork with two movements fighting against water privatisation, the book uses anticolonial and feminist research methods to show how global communications and organising are occurring around water and how Global North movements are engaging with and learning from the Global South and vice versa.
By:
Caitlin Schroering
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9781526172440
ISBN 10: 1526172445
Series: Progress in Political Economy
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of figures page Preface and acknowledgements Abbreviations Glossary of key concepts 1 The global fight for water 2 Water grabbing, privatization, and resistance against commodification 3 The Grinch stole our water: translocal resistance for the right to water 4 Water and energy are not commodities: resistance and knowledge production in Brazil’s Movement of People Affected by Dams 5 Collaborative knowledge production and the right to water: solidarity and translocal learning networks 6 Constructing another world: translocal solidarities and the right to water 7 Um novo caminho -- .
Caitlin Schroering is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Reviews for Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing
In this path-breaking book, Schroering bridges resistance to different forms of water grabbing - privatization, large dams, and bottled water - by focusing on translocal organizing. She decolonizes our understanding of social movement struggles, showing how those in the Global North learn from the Global South. A must-read for water activists, academics, and anyone interested in alternative futures beyond capitalism! Andreas Bieler, Professor of Political Economy, University of Nottingham -- .
