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Commodification and ‘the commons’: the politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis (2017)
Journal Article
Bieler, A., & Jordan, J. (2018). Commodification and ‘the commons’: the politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis. European Journal of International Relations, 24(4), 934-957. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066117728383

In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s (EU) peripheral member states in order to receive financial bailout loans. In addition to cuts in funding of essential public services, cuts in p... Read More about Commodification and ‘the commons’: the politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis.

Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right” (2017)
Journal Article
Bieler, A. (2017). Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right”. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 9(1), 300-326

Between May 2012 and September 2013 the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Water and Sanitation are a Human Right’ successfully collected close to 1.9 million signatures across the European Union (EU), forcing the Commission into an official positi... Read More about Fighting for public water: the first successful European Citizens’ Initiative, “Water and Sanitation are a Human Right”.