From the Water Commons Movement to the Commonification of the Public Realm

Bibliographic Data

ID4440663
AuthorsTommaso Fattori (corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume112
Issue2
Pages377-387
Publication date2013-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-2020253
OpenAlexW2171058285
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited2

When the economic and financial storm broke, the Italian government asked the collectivity to come together to defend capital and the international financial powers by satisfying their thirst for privatization. The government plan was to sell off the country's common patrimony, starting with water services and other local utilities, which would have been obliged to open to private shareholders. The Italian people, on the contrary, answered by coming together to defend the commons, voting en masse in June 2011 at the referendum called by the social movements against the privatization of the management of water and other local services of general interest. Ninety-five percent of those voting voted against allowing a profit to be made from managing a commons. This vote was against privatization but also against the old public model, which has at this time been completely subjected to and aligned with private and market reasoning. The exploitation of the common realm as a whole (both material and nonmaterial) thus constitutes the heart of capitalist accumulation and directs new waves of enclosures

Business · Commons · Corporate governance · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics) · House of Commons · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Referendum · Shareholder · Voting · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Public Administration · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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