Caitlin Schroering
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caitlin Schroering |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caitlin |
| FAMILY NAME | Schroering |
| SIGNATURE | SCHROERING C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3416-3441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A privatização da água e a luta pelos bens comuns
A mercantilização dos recursos naturais não é uma novidade no capitalismo, mas chama a atenção em relação à intensidade e à dinâmica em que ocorre atualmente. O fenômeno é amplo e complexo e não envolve apenas a disputa entre centro e periferia do sistema de Estados, mas, de âmago capitalista e internacionalista, também atinge as populações das grandes potências. O que, todavia, não ocorre sem resistência, mas fomenta movimentos que extrapolam as…
Environmental Justice Victory? Waste Colonialism and the Afterlife of Lead Water Pipes
For centuries, lead (Pb) pipes have been used to convey water for public consumption, resulting in widespread negative health impacts caused by lead-contaminated water. In 2022, after years of urging by environmental justice advocates, the U.S. federal government announced a plan to replace all lead service lines via the Biden-Harris Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan (LPPAP) funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and American Rescue Plan. This…
Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing
Volunteer and staff participants in social movements
This paper examines how volunteer and staff participants influence coalition functioning and outcomes. We compare two environmental coalitions in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: the Clean Rivers Campaign (CRC), which was supported by a general progressive movement community and led by organizational staff members, and Protect Our Parks (POP), an all-volunteer alliance that was part of a more specific anti-fracking movement community. While much researc…
Constructing Another World
Globally, one in eight people lacks access to potable water; more people die from unsafe drinking water than from all forms of violence, including war. A substantial body of research documents that the privatization of water – led by global financial institutions working in collusion with governments and corporations – does not lead to more people gaining access to safe water. In fact, the opposite is true: privatization leads to both higher cost…
Pittsburgh's translocal social movement
Refiguring the Plantationocene
While sympathetic to debates about the utility, accuracy, and significance of the “Anthropocene,” in this brief essay, we are most interested in implicating racialization, colonization, and their ongoing place in the capitalist world-economy and global ecological change. To this end, we point to the potential of thinking with the “Plantationocene,” considering that to invoke the plantation is to simultaneously contend with the intermeshing organi…
Responsible for Whom? The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Vulnerability and Responsiveness to Social Movement Activism
Are corporate socially responsible (CSR) firms more receptive to social movements? In this paper, we examine whether the CSR profile of a company shapes its engagement with social movement protestors at three key steps: 1) the decision of activists to target firms for protest, 2) the responses of shareholders to the protest, and 3) management responses to the demands of protesters. In all three cases, we test broad competing theories of whether C…
Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power
In this short piece, I seek to explore two main questions: 1) How can communities take control over local governance and shape local economic futures?and2) How can local communities effectively band together to support world-system transformation? I examine examples of transnational organizing around water and, specifically, the National Summit on the Human Right to Water held in Abuja, Nigeria in January 2019. A repeated theme at the Summit was …
Resistance and Knowledge Production
Drawing on fieldwork with Brazil's Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB), the author argues that MAB's struggle is not just around those affected by dam projects; rather it is a part of a larger "alter-globalization" project. The author posits that MAB is not simply a social movement actor but a producer of knowledge that articulates theory and praxis resisting the larger hegemonic imperialist system. In this paper the following questions a…
Refiguring the Plantationocene
While sympathetic to debates about the utility, accuracy, and significance of the “Anthropocene,” in this brief essay, we are most interested in implicating racialization, colonization, and their ongoing place in the capitalist world-economy and global ecological change. To this end, we point to the potential of thinking with the “Plantationocene,” considering that to invoke the plantation is to simultaneously contend with the intermeshing organi…
Volunteer and staff participants in social movements
This paper examines how volunteer and staff participants influence coalition functioning and outcomes. We compare two environmental coalitions in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: the Clean Rivers Campaign (CRC), which was supported by a general progressive movement community and led by organizational staff members, and Protect Our Parks (POP), an all-volunteer alliance that was part of a more specific anti-fracking movement community. While much researc…
Resistance and Knowledge Production
Drawing on fieldwork with Brazil's Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB), the author argues that MAB's struggle is not just around those affected by dam projects; rather it is a part of a larger "alter-globalization" project. The author posits that MAB is not simply a social movement actor but a producer of knowledge that articulates theory and praxis resisting the larger hegemonic imperialist system. In this paper the following questions a…
Pittsburgh's translocal social movement
Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power
In this short piece, I seek to explore two main questions: 1) How can communities take control over local governance and shape local economic futures?and2) How can local communities effectively band together to support world-system transformation? I examine examples of transnational organizing around water and, specifically, the National Summit on the Human Right to Water held in Abuja, Nigeria in January 2019. A repeated theme at the Summit was …
Constructing Another World
Globally, one in eight people lacks access to potable water; more people die from unsafe drinking water than from all forms of violence, including war. A substantial body of research documents that the privatization of water – led by global financial institutions working in collusion with governments and corporations – does not lead to more people gaining access to safe water. In fact, the opposite is true: privatization leads to both higher cost…
Responsible for Whom? The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Vulnerability and Responsiveness to Social Movement Activism
Are corporate socially responsible (CSR) firms more receptive to social movements? In this paper, we examine whether the CSR profile of a company shapes its engagement with social movement protestors at three key steps: 1) the decision of activists to target firms for protest, 2) the responses of shareholders to the protest, and 3) management responses to the demands of protesters. In all three cases, we test broad competing theories of whether C…
Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power
In this short piece, I seek to explore two main questions: 1) How can communities take control over local governance and shape local economic futures?and2) How can local communities effectively band together to support world-system transformation? I examine examples of transnational organizing around water and, specifically, the National Summit on the Human Right to Water held in Abuja, Nigeria in January 2019. A repeated theme at the Summit was …
Resistance and Knowledge Production
Drawing on fieldwork with Brazil's Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB), the author argues that MAB's struggle is not just around those affected by dam projects; rather it is a part of a larger "alter-globalization" project. The author posits that MAB is not simply a social movement actor but a producer of knowledge that articulates theory and praxis resisting the larger hegemonic imperialist system. In this paper the following questions a…
Refiguring the Plantationocene
While sympathetic to debates about the utility, accuracy, and significance of the “Anthropocene,” in this brief essay, we are most interested in implicating racialization, colonization, and their ongoing place in the capitalist world-economy and global ecological change. To this end, we point to the potential of thinking with the “Plantationocene,” considering that to invoke the plantation is to simultaneously contend with the intermeshing organi…
Responsible for Whom? The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Vulnerability and Responsiveness to Social Movement Activism
Are corporate socially responsible (CSR) firms more receptive to social movements? In this paper, we examine whether the CSR profile of a company shapes its engagement with social movement protestors at three key steps: 1) the decision of activists to target firms for protest, 2) the responses of shareholders to the protest, and 3) management responses to the demands of protesters. In all three cases, we test broad competing theories of whether C…
Constructing Another World
Globally, one in eight people lacks access to potable water; more people die from unsafe drinking water than from all forms of violence, including war. A substantial body of research documents that the privatization of water – led by global financial institutions working in collusion with governments and corporations – does not lead to more people gaining access to safe water. In fact, the opposite is true: privatization leads to both higher cost…
Pittsburgh's translocal social movement
Volunteer and staff participants in social movements
This paper examines how volunteer and staff participants influence coalition functioning and outcomes. We compare two environmental coalitions in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: the Clean Rivers Campaign (CRC), which was supported by a general progressive movement community and led by organizational staff members, and Protect Our Parks (POP), an all-volunteer alliance that was part of a more specific anti-fracking movement community. While much researc…
Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing
A privatização da água e a luta pelos bens comuns
A mercantilização dos recursos naturais não é uma novidade no capitalismo, mas chama a atenção em relação à intensidade e à dinâmica em que ocorre atualmente. O fenômeno é amplo e complexo e não envolve apenas a disputa entre centro e periferia do sistema de Estados, mas, de âmago capitalista e internacionalista, também atinge as populações das grandes potências. O que, todavia, não ocorre sem resistência, mas fomenta movimentos que extrapolam as…
Environmental Justice Victory? Waste Colonialism and the Afterlife of Lead Water Pipes
For centuries, lead (Pb) pipes have been used to convey water for public consumption, resulting in widespread negative health impacts caused by lead-contaminated water. In 2022, after years of urging by environmental justice advocates, the U.S. federal government announced a plan to replace all lead service lines via the Biden-Harris Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan (LPPAP) funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and American Rescue Plan. This…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 works) · Politics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Social movement (3 works) · Corporate governance (2 works)