Making public in a privatized world : the struggle for essential services
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Making public in a privatized world : the struggle for essential services
Zed Books, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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How do we provide effective public services in a deeply neoliberal world? In the wake of the widespread failure of privatisation 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, Making Public in a Privatized World uncovers the radically different ways in which public services are being reshaped from the grassroots up.
From communities holding the state accountable for public health in rural Guatemala, to waste pickers in India and decentralized solar electricity initiatives in Africa, the essays in this collection offer probing insights into the complex ways in which people are building genuine alternatives to privatization, while also illustrating the challenges which communities face in creating public services which are not subordinated to the logic of the market, or to the monolithic state entities of the past.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Wonderful Worlds of Making Public - David A. McDonald
Part I: Engaging Communities and Workers
2. Work of the Ants: Labour and Community Reinventing Public Water in Colombia - Madeleine Belanger 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
Part II: Recognising Quasi-Public Actors
6. Electrified Publics and Informal Settlements in Urban 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 M. Dambisya, Mulalo Manenzhe and Allie B. Kibwika-Muyinda
Part 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 Medellin, Colombia - Marcela Lopez
11. Public Renewable Energy in Africa: The Potential for Democratic Electrification - Sandra van Niekerk
Part IV: Financing Public Services
12. (Re)Making Public Banks: The Case of Turkey - Thomas Marois and Ali Riza Gungen
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
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