Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism
Book description
This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water. Presenting an incorporated comparison, it analyses the conjuncture following the 2007 financial crisis through the lens of water expropriation and resistance. This brings into view the way that transnational capital has made use of and…
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1 author picked Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
By comparing the struggles against water charges in Ireland with struggles over the extraction of unconventional gas in Australia, Madelaine Moore provides a fascinating account of common roots of resistance underpinning different forms of water grabbing.
Drawing on feminist Social Reproduction Theory she clearly demonstrates how these moments of contestation not only contest profit-making with water, but capitalist reproduction as a whole.
From Andreas' list on struggles against water grabbing.
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