Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power

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ID12433679
AuthorsCaitlin Schroering (0000-0003-3416-3441, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume25
Issue1
Pages28-34
Publication date2019-03-25
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of World-Systems Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1076-156X • E-ISSN: 1076-156X
PublisherUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5195/jwsr.2019.899
OpenAlexW2922798264
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

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 the idea that privatization is a threat because the narrative of the profit-based solution of privatization is at odds with the idea that people—and their human right to basic needs like water—come before profit. Privatization is a threat to human rights everywhere,and as climate change progresses resources will become even more scarce, with more of a push from corporations seeking to control and commodify water. One of the most powerful short-term results of this summit, therefore, was how it served as a space forglobalsolidarity buildingaround the human right to water

Business · Geography · Grassroots · Human rights · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Summit · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Ecology

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