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 aroun...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-844345a5b7944c42b0e097994874d9202022-12-21T19:37:54ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghJournal of World-Systems Research1076-156X2019-03-01251283410.5195/jwsr.2019.899780Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate PowerCaitlin Schroering0University of PittsburghIn 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.http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/899WaterTransnational Social MovementsHuman RightsAlter-globalizations |
| spellingShingle | Caitlin Schroering Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power Journal of World-Systems Research Water Transnational Social Movements Human Rights Alter-globalizations |
| title | Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power |
| title_full | Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power |
| title_fullStr | Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power |
| title_full_unstemmed | Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power |
| title_short | Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power |
| title_sort | water is a human right grassroots resistance to corporate power |
| topic | Water Transnational Social Movements Human Rights Alter-globalizations |
| url | http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/899 |
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