Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe

Bieler, Andreas

Abstract

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.

Citation

Bieler, A. (2021). Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755640409

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Online Publication Date: May 20, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Apr 19, 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• ISBN: 9781786995087
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755640409
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/19782338
• Publisher URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fighting-for-water-9781786995087/
• Related Public URLs: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/fighting-for-water-resisting-privatization-in-europe/
• Additional Information: 9781786993250 (hardback); 9781786997746 (ebook, PDF); ; Contents: Chapter 1 – Resisting water privatisation: An introduction.; Chapter 2 – Capitalism's relentless thirst for accumulation; Chapter 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 water; Chapter 5 – Contesting the Troika: resistance in Greece against imposed water privatisation; Chapter 6 – 'We will strike, we will fight, water is a human right': The Irish people rise up; Chapter 7 – Transforming capitalism towards the commons?