Greg Ruiters

The Age of Commodity

Water Privatization in Southern Africa
Herausgeber: Mcdonald, David A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As globalization and market liberalization march forward unabated the global commons continue to be commodified and privatized at a rapid pace. In this global process, the ownership, sale and supply of water is increasingly a flashpoint for debates and conflict over privatization, and nowhere is the debate more advanced or acute than in Southern Africa. The Age of Commodity provides an overview of the debates over water in the region including a conceptual overview of water 'privatization', how it relates to human rights, macro-economic policy and GATS. The book then presents case studies of important water privatization initiatives in the region, drawing out crucial themes common to water privatization debates around the world including corruption, gender equity and donor conditionalities. This book is powerful and necessary reading in our new age of commodity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9781844071340
• ISBN-10: 1844071340
• Artikelnr.: 21534735

Autorenporträt

David A McDonald is Director of the Development Studies Programme at Queen's University, Canada. Greg Ruiters is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From Public to Private (to Public Again?) * Part I: Theory
and Practice - Theorizing Water Privatization in Southern Africa * The New
Water Architecture of SADC * The Constitutional Implications of
Commercializing Water in South Africa * Turning Off the Taps on the GATS *
Part II: Case Studies in South Africa - Entrenching Inequalities: The
Impact of Corporatization on Water Injustices in Pretoria * Managing the
Poor by Remote Control: Johannesburg's Experiments with Prepaid Water
Meters * Public Money, Private Failure: Testing the Limits of Market Based
Solutions for Water Delivery in Nelspruit * The Political Economy of Public
Private Contracts: Urban Water in Two Eastern Cape Towns * The Murky Waters
of Second Wave Neoliberalism: Corporatizing as a Service Delivery Model in
Cape Town * 'Free Water' as Commodity: The Paradoxes of Durban's Water
Service Transformations * The Rise and Fall of Water Privatization in Rural
South Africa: A Critical Evaluation of the ANC's First Term of Officer,
1994-1999 * Part III: Case Studies in the Region - Stillborn in Harare:
Attempts to Privatize Water in a City in Crises * 'There is Still No
Alternative': The Beginnings of Water Privatization in Luska * Water
Privatization in Namibia: Creating a New Apartheid? * The New Face of
Conditionalities: The World Bank and Water Privatization in Ghana * Index