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Making Public in a Privatized World: The Struggle for Essential Services

Author:

David A. McDonald

Year:

2016

Publisher:

Zed Books

Number of pages:

Available languages:

EN | ES

ISBN:

ISBN 978-1-78360-483-8 hb; ISBN 978-1-78360-482-1 pb; ISBN 978-1-78360-484-5 pdf; ISBN 978-1-78360-485-2 epub; ISBN 978-1-78360-486-9 mob

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Abstract

How do we provide effective public services in a deeply neoliberal world? In the wake of the widespread failure of privatization efforts, societies in the global South are increasingly seeking progressive ways of recreating the public sector. With contributors ranging from cutting-edge scholars to activists working in health, water and energy provision, and with case studies covering a broad spectrum of localities and actors – from public health activists in rural Guatemala, to waste pickers in India and decentralized solar electricity initiatives in Africa – Making Public in a Privatized World uncovers the radically different ways in which public services are being reshaped from the grassroots up.

Chapters

English
Spanish

English

1. Introduction: The Wonderful Worlds of Making Public - David A. McDonald

Section I: Engaging Communities and Workers
2. Work of the Ants: Labour and Community Reinventing Public Water in Colombia - Madeleine Bélanger Dumontier, Susan Spronk and Adrian Murray
3. Old Trash, New Ideas: Public Waste Management and Informal Reclaimers - Melanie Samson
4. Ships Passing in the Dark? Reigniting Labour-Community Alliances for Public Services in South Africa - Dale T. McKinley
5. Public Health for Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala: Monitoring from the Bottom Up - Walter Flores

Section II: Recognizing Quasi-Public Actors
6. Electrified Publics and Informal Settlements in India - Bipasha Baruah
7. Principles and Pitfalls: Searching for Public in ‘Community-Led Total Sanitation’ - Mary Galvin
8. Public Faith: Christian and Muslim Health Services in Uganda - Yoswa Dambisya, Mulalo Manenzhe and Allie Kibwika-Muyinda

Section III: Promoting Equity and Democratic Control
9. Gender Equity, Citizenship and Public Water in Bangladesh - Farhana Sultana, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Sarah Miraglia
10. Struggling for Public, Reclaiming Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Access to Water in Medellín, Colombia - Marcela López
11. Public Renewable Energy in Africa: The Potential for Democratic Electrification - Sandra van Niekerk

Section IV: Financing Public Services
12. (Re)Making Public Banks: The Case of Turkey - Thomas Marois and Ali Riza Güngen
13. Pragmatic Publics in the Heartland of Capitalism: Local services in the United States - Mildred E. Warner
14. Post-Neoliberalism in Bolivia? Water Sector Reforms under Evo Morales - Susan Spronk

15. Conclusion: Building a Global Pro-Public Movement - David A. McDonald

Spanish

CAPÍTULO 1: La ambigüedad de lo público y los numerosos significados de la corporatización
David A. McDonald

CAPÍTULO 2: Una empresa de electricidad excepcional en una socialdemocracia atípica: el Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad
Daniel Chavez

CAPÍTULO 3: Gobernabilidad híbrida del agua en Burkina Faso: la experiencia de la ONEA
Catherine Baron

CAPÍTULO 4: ¿Una Primavera Árabe para la corporatización? La Empresa Nacional de Electricidad de Túnez
Ali Bennasr y Eric Verdeil

CAPÍTULO 5: La modernización y los límites del modelo de agua pública en Uruguay
Susan Spronk, Carlos Crespo y Marcela Olivera

CAPÍTULO 6: ¿Puede lo público sobrevivir a la corporatización? El caso de la TNB en Malasia
Nepomuceno A. Malaluan

CAPÍTULO 7: Cuasi público: distritos de agua en Filipinas
Buenaventura B. Dargantes, Victor G. Chiong, Hedda P. Dargantes y Elsie B. Mira

CAPÍTULO 8: Corporatización en el sector del agua en Europa: lecciones para el Sur Global
Emanuele Lobina y David Hall

CAPÍTULO 9: La corporatización está muerta… ¿larga vida a la corporatización?
David A McDonald