| ISBN: | 9780262518390
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| eISBN: | 9780262313629
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| 专著题名: | Contested Water |
| 其他题名: | 有争议的水：美国和加拿大反对供水私有化的斗争（丛书）（平装）
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| 作者: | Robinson,Joanna L.
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| 出版者: | MIT Press
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| 出版年: | 2013-03-15
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| 国家: | 美国
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文摘要: | Attempts by local governments to privatize water services have met with furious opposition. Activists argue that to give private companies control of the water supply is to turn water from a common resource into a marketized commodity. Moreover, to cede local power to a global corporation puts communities at the center of controversies over economic globalization. In Contested Water, Joanna Robinson examines local social movement organizing against water privatization, looking closely at battles for control of local water services in Stockton, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia. The movements in these two communities had different trajectories, used different tactics, and experienced different outcomes. Robinson analyzes the factors that shaped these two struggles. Drawing on extensive interviews with movement actors, political leaders, and policymakers and detailed analysis of textual material, Robinson shows that the successful campaign in Vancouver drew on tactics, opportunities, and narratives from the broader antiglobalization movement, with activists emphasizing the threats to local democracy and accountability; the less successful movement in Stockton centered on a ballot initiative that was made meaningless by a pre-emptive city council vote. Robinson finds that global forces are reshaping local movements, particularly those that oppose neoliberal reforms at the municipal level. She argues that anti--water privatization movements that link local and international concerns and build wide-ranging coalitions at local and global levels offer an effective way to counter economic globalization. Successful challenges to globalization will not necessarily come from transnational movements but rather from movements that are connected globally but rooted in local communities. |
| 丛书名: | Urban and Industrial Environments
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| 资源类型: | 专著
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/73281
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候变化与战略
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Robinson,Joanna L.. Contested Water[M]:MIT Press,2013-03-15.
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