Conflicts over water are human-caused events with socio-political and economic causes. From Brazil's Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB) 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 privatization 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 Global solidarities against water grabbing is as much about collective struggle and popular organization as it is about water. Based on extensive fieldwork with two movements fighting against water privatization, the book uses anticolonial and feminist research methods to show how global communications and organizing are occurring around water and how Global North movements are engaging with and learning from the Global South and vice versa.
Price: $130.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Progress in Political Economy
Publication Date:
24 September 2024
ISBN: 9781526172440
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Political economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Social impact of environmental issues, Political ideologies and movements
Honorable Mention: The Paul Sweezy Sociology Book Award 2026
'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
Caitlin Schroering is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
List of figures
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
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