Bharat,
This is a policy document I did this year under a consultancy for Practical
Action (a UK NGO) on GATS and service provision.
Practical Action is a small-scale, community-focused NGO specialising in
appropriate water provision and technology, that arose from the Schumacher
Centre (used to be IETG?) - they needed to work out what was the most
appropriate way to engage (or not) with GATS and service provision of
various kinds, given the variety of different views that their country
partners had on the issue.
See what you think.
Jon Cloke
GaWC
Loughborough Uni
From: bharat punjabi <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Water as the Commons
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:45:44 +0000
Dear Crit geog members
I was wondering whether subscribers interested in water issues had any
commentary to offer on the UBC scholar, Karen Bakker's excellent recent
paper on water in the recent Antipode (citation below). For a researcher
like myself (who is working on intersectoral conflict over water in India),
the article came at a very good time, given the intensity of the water
rights versus commons debate in the Indian context. Bakker puts the focus on
this debate and makes a persuasive case for actvists to not overly focus on
water rights.
I am writing this message so as to provoke a discussion on this list on the
arguments in this paper from scholars working in other geographical
contexts.
regards
Bharat
Karen Bakker (2007)
The "Commons" Versus the "Commodity": Alter-globalization,
Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South
Antipode 39 (3), 430–455.
Bharat Punjabi
Phd Candidate
Department of Geography
Social Science Centre
The University of Western Ontario
1151 Richmond Street
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2
Tel: 519 661-3423, Fax: 519 661-3750
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