The pandemic of capital in the water supply sector

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5333633
AutoresAna Cristina Augusto De Sousa (0000-0002-5288-2274, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Brasil; Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ), Brasil, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen46
Número133
Páginas447-458
Fecha de publicación2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSaúde em Debate (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0103-1104 • E-ISSN: 2358-2898
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/0103-1104202213314i
OpenAlexW4283164607
SCIELO_PIDS0103-11042022000200447
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas10

This paper aims to show that the recent changes in the framework of water-related services represent, on a national scale, the effect of a recent structural change in the dynamics of global capitalism. The purpose is to clarify readers in the field of health on the process of financialization that is taking place in the sanitation sector in Brazil, which threatens public health. Therefore, we intend to show, from the perspective of the critical geography theory, how the new sanitation framework and the creation of a water market in Brazil meet the interests of the international elites who, in the face of cyclical crises in the productive field, seek for opportunities to profit from common goods and nature. It also discusses the role of the State in this entire process and the likely effects that have already been pointed out by the literature on the subject

Business · Capital (architecture) · Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Face (sociological concept) · Financialization · Geography · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Profit (economics) · Sanitation · Social science · Sociology · Engineering · Water Governance and Infrastructure