Stemming the Tide
Human Rights and Water Policy in a Neoliberal World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 September 2017
- ISBN 9780190693152
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 213x137x25 mm
- Weight 363 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
When privatization of public services swept the developing world in the 1990s, it was part of a seemingly unstoppable tide of neoliberal reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state and reorienting economies toward market-led policymaking. Consequently, water privatization sparked a fierce debate over whether public services should be owned and managed by private corporations, and gave rise to a water justice movement that redefined water services as basic human rights. Stemming the Tide explores how the human right to water and sanitation is fulfilled in different contexts, whether neoliberal policies like privatization pose a threat to the right to water, and whether rights fulfillment leads to meaningful social change.
MoreLong description:
When privatization of public services swept the developing world in the 1990s, it was part of a seemingly unstoppable tide of neoliberal reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state and reorienting economies toward market-led policymaking. Water privatization, one of the more unpopular policies of the neoliberal development paradigm, sparked a particularly fierce debate and gave rise to a movement of self-proclaimed "water warriors" who advocated for legal recognition of water as a basic human right to be protected and fulfilled by states.
Complicating this debate, Madeline Baer questions whether either approach -- the market approach or a human rights-based approach -- leads to improved access to water. More specifically, Baer explores how the human right to water and sanitation is fulfilled in different contexts, whether neoliberal policies like privatization pose a threat to the right to water, and whether rights fulfillment leads to meaningful social change. Using two case studies -- Chile, the most extreme case of water privatization in the developing world, and Bolivia, the birthplace of the global movement for the human right to water -- Stemming the Tide uncovers the conditions under which the right to water and sanitation can be fulfilled, as well as the obstacles to fulfilment. Ultimately this book argues that deepening mechanisms for citizen participation, strengthening accountability, and creating alternatives to the state/market binary can help achieve meaningful social transformation in the water sector.
Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Stemming the Tide - Market Reforms and the Human Right to Water
Chapter 2: Human Rights in a Neoliberal World
Chapter 3: Global Dynamics: Rights Promoters and Rights Resistors
Chapter 4: Private Water, Public Good - Privatization and State Capacity in Chile
Chapter 5: Water for Life - Implementing the Human Right to Water and Sanitation in Bolivia
Conclusion: Rights Realization and Social Transformation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
