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Remunicipalisation, Mutating Neoliberalism, and the Conjuncture [PDF]
Antipode, 2021 AbstractThere is a growing interest in the progressive potential of remunicipalisation, a global trend for towns, cities, and even subnational regions to take formerly privatised assets and services back into public ownership. In this paper, we offer a novel conceptualisation of remunicipalisation, developing a spatialised conjunctural perspective ...
Cumbers, Andrew, Paul, Franziska
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New Municipalism and the State: Remunicipalising Energy in Barcelona, from Prosaics to Process [PDF]
Antipode, 2020 AbstractBertie Russell’s 2019 Antipode paper documents the emergence of a “new municipalist” movement, which approaches the city as a strategic entry point for a radically democratic politics. Given this movement’s aspirations towards the transformation of the municipal state, how might state theory inform research and practice on new municipalism ...
James Angel
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The new water wars: Struggles for remunicipalisation
Water Alternatives, 2019 Remunicipalisation is one of the most significant shifts in water services policy in a generation. After 30 years of privatisation, hundreds of cities around the world have taken water services back into public control, and the pace appears to be ...
David A. McDonald, Erik Swyngedouw
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The deadlock of metropolitan remunicipalisation of water services management in Barcelona
Water Alternatives, 2019 This article chronicles the complex, meandering, contested, and path-dependent unfolding of the remunicipalisation agenda pursued by a range of political forces and social movements in Barcelona as it has developed over the past few years.
Mar Grau-Satorras +2 more
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Will the Empire strike back? Powerbrokers and remunicipalisation in the water sector
Water Alternatives, 2019 Literature on remunicipalisation in the water sector has focused almost entirely on the ambitions, practices and ideologies of people and organisations that are in favour of publicly owned and managed water services.
David A. McDonald
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Water Alternatives, 2019 This article analyses the relevance of investment protection rules as they relate to the remunicipalisation of water services. It describes why investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is deemed to be controversial and provides case-law examples.
Britta Kynast
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New Glocal Forms of Financial Participation
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2021 Invited to peek into the mysterious and arcane academic glocal universe, I became intrigued by the range and depth of disciplines, theoretical perspectives and topics which the subject can embrace.
Jeff Hyman
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Water Policy, 2022 After the politicisation of urban water services governance, over a hundred European cities have implemented water services remunicipalisation reforms inspired by the theory of water management as a common.
Vanessa Mascia Turri
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 1028-1043, December 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper examines different ways of studying – and thereby understanding – social movement spatialities. For more than a decade, literature on the geographies of social movements has explored the multiple spatialities of mobilisation, using concepts like scale, network, place, and territory.
Jørgen Eiken Magdahl
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Zero Waste. Gestione dei rifiuti e trasformazioni sociali
Cambio, 2021 The aim of the article is to analyse the social transformations produced and observed in the field of waste management. In particular, the focus is on the «Zero Waste» strategy, which has been proposing for at least two decades at a global level an ...
Claudio Marciano
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