04608nam a22005295i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172072001600185072002300201072001500224100009000239245014700329250001800476264007500494300003300569336002600602337002600628338003600654347002400690505054400714520225901258650003603517650003303553650002603586650001803612650002203630650002703652650003603679650003303715650002603748650001803774650002703792710003403819773002603853776003603879776003603915776003603951856004603987912001404033912001404047999001704061978-1-137-31788-9DE-He21320251030114635.0cr nn 008mamaa241224s2024    xxk|    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97811373178899978-1-137-31788-97 a10.1057/978-1-137-31788-92doi 4aJZ2-6530 7aJPS2bicssc 7aPOL0110002bisacsh 7aJPS2thema1 aCastro, Jose Esteban.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98946510aDemocracy and Global Water Politics in Historical Perspectiveh[electronic resource] :bAgainst Water Privatization /cby Jose Esteban Castro.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aLondon :bPalgrave Macmillan UK :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXV, 253 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Commodification and democratization processes -- Chapter 3 "Free market" privatist water politics -- Chapter 4 State-led capitalist water regime, water services and the reproduction of inequality and injustice -- Chapter 5 The attempted revival of "free market" water politics in the late twentieth century -- Chapter 6 A failed fairy story, with ongoing consequences -- Chapter 7 The Legacy of neoprivatist water politics -- Chapter 8 Water struggles and substantive democracy -- Chapter 9 Conclusions.  a“This very important book puts the commercialisation, and now financialisation, of water supplies in historical context and delivers a devastating critique of its failures across the world.” — William Outhwaite, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University, UK “The politics of water has become a key issue in this century of droughts and floods. Esteban Castro’s book is a rare knowledgeable social analysis of it.” — Göran Therborn, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK This book addresses water privatization from a historical-sociological perspective and argues against the unrelenting imposition of neoprivatist water politics worldwide. Water is essential for life, but it is also a source of economic and political power. Prevailing global water politics continue to preclude millions of human beings around the world from accessing essential water supplies required for dignified living conditions or even for survival. This includes millions living in Western capitalist democracies. The book revisits water-related myths, fake truths, and authoritarian practices promoted or employed by international financial institutions, governments, and other powerful actors to keep enforcing long-failed policies grounded on ideological dogmas and short-term interests and argues for the substantive democratization of water politics and management. It rejects claims of scientific ‘neutrality’ from academics and other actors across the political spectrum who are co-responsible for the perpetuation of these conditions, interrogating the ethics of scientific-political pragmatism. Jose Esteban Castro is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. He is a corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and a regular Visiting Professor in universities in Europe and Latin America. Previous books include Water, Power, and Citizenship. Social Struggle in the Basin of Mexico (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Water and Sanitation Services. Public Policy and Management, coedited with L. Heller (2009, 2011), and Time, Science, and the Critique of Technological Reason, coedited with B. Fowler, and L. Gomes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). 0aInternational relations.958103 0aEnvironmental policy.962028 0aSocial policy.960914 0aWater.965998 0aHydrology.965999 0aSustainability.95766114aInternational Relations.95810324aEnvironmental Policy.96202824aSocial Policy.96091424aWater.96599824aSustainability.9576612 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978023021210708iPrinted edition:z978134958666008iPrinted edition:z978134958665340uhttps://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31788-9  aZDB-2-SLS  aZDB-2-SXS  c65981d65981