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Water justice will not be televised: Moral advocacy and the struggle for transformative remunicipalisation in Jakarta

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2019
Aiming to advance our understanding of the transformative potential of remunicipalisation, this paper looks at the uncertain and unequal struggle for water remunicipalisation in Jakarta over the last 20 years, and offers an ontological account of the ...
Emanuele Lobina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

New Glocal Forms of Financial Participation

open access: yesGlocalism: 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
doaj   +5 more sources

Theorising approaches to social movement spatialities: Local and global contestations of neoliberal water services

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

Zero Waste. Gestione dei rifiuti e trasformazioni sociali

open access: yesCambio, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The return of the local state? Failing neoliberalism, remunicipalisation, and the role of the state in advanced capitalism [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2021
Picking up on the manifestation of state intervention following the 2008 financial crisis, we argue that the recent trend towards remunicipalisation underlines but also problematises the thesis of new state capitalism. Remunicipalisation refers to a process whereby towns, cities and sub-national regions take previously privatised services and ...
Paul, Franziska Christina   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Reclaiming public water through remunicipalisation

open access: yesZeitschrift für kritik - recht - gesellschaft, 2016
This paper is an abridged version of the concluding chapter in the 2015 book "Our Public Water Future: The global experience with remunicipalisation". The first two sections of the paper looks at the problems with water privatisation in its various forms, including Public-Private Partnerships.
Kishimoto, Satoko   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Crossing thresholds under citizen-driven remunicipalisation

open access: yesUrban Studies, 2023
Since 2008, the call to ‘remunicipalise’ water resources has become a key strategy for water movements across Europe. Remunicipalisation aimed at opposing the new wave of privatisation programmes and water commodification incentivised under austerity frameworks. However, the water movements’ lack of direct engagement with questions
Geagea, Dona   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Public Banks + Public Water = SDG 6?

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2021
Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to achieve universal access to water and sanitation services by 2030; this is expected to cost an estimated US$150 billion per year. Where will this funding come from?
David A. McDonald   +2 more
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