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Remunicipalisation, Mutating Neoliberalism, and the Conjuncture [PDF]
Antipode, 2022 Abstract There 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 ...
Andrew Cumbers
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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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New Municipalism and the State: Remunicipalising Energy in Barcelona, from Prosaics to Process [PDF]
Antipode, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 524-545, March 2021., 2021 Abstract Bertie 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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(De)Financing remunicipalisation
Urban StudiesOne of the primary impediments to the realisation and success of remunicipalisation can be financing. Not all remunicipalisations require additional funding, but the costs of bringing services back in-house can be enormous, preventing remunicipalisation efforts from getting off the ground and constraining what is possible once in place.
David A Mcdonald
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Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, 2017 Since the majority of network concession contracts in Germany were set to expire some time between 2005 and 2016, a window of opportunity arose in which to rebuild and remunicipalise the local energy supply. As a result, 72 new local power companies were
Oliver Wagner
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Water remunicipalisation as a global trend: Calling for progressive policies [PDF]
, 2017 Cities, regions and countries worldwide are increasingly choosing to close the book on water privatisation and to remunicipalise services by taking back public control over water and sanitation management.
Lobina, Emanuele
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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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De-privatisation and remunicipalisation of urban services through the pendulum swing: Evidence from Germany [PDF]
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 This paper explores and examines the distribution of environmental conflicts in Germany between 1985 and 2015, analysing the main causes for environmental conflicts related to privatisation and de-privatisation processes of urban services in 80 German cities.
Gabriel Weber, Ignazio Cabras
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