Chapter 2. The “Commons” Versus the “Commodity”: Alter-Globalization, Anti-Privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South
- Becky Mansfield
Published Online: 25 MAR 2009
DOI: 10.1002/9781444306750.ch2
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Book Title
Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations
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Bakker, K. (2009) The “Commons” Versus the “Commodity”: Alter-Globalization, Anti-Privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South, in Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations (ed B. Mansfield), Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444306750.ch2
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- Published Online: 25 MAR 2009
- Published Print: 28 MAR 2008
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Print ISBN: 9781405175500
Online ISBN: 9781444306750
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- the “commons” versus the “commodity” - alter-globalization, anti-privatization;
- triumph of market environmentalism - “neoliberalization of nature”;
- neoliberal reforms and resource management - clarifying the debate;
- resource management reforms - examples from water sector;
- debating neoliberalization - anti-privatization campaigns and “Human Right to Water”;
- “human rights to water” - anti-privatization campaign with three strategic errors;
- alter-globalization and the commons;
- significant differences between public utility, commercial, and community governance models
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Prologue
Introduction: The Triumph of Market Environmentalism?
Neoliberal Reforms and Resource Management: Clarifying the Debate
Debating Neoliberalization: Anti-privatization Campaigns and the “Human Right to Water”
Alter-globalization and the Commons
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
References