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Item type:Publication, Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement(Taylor & Francis, 2021-05-06)In 2013 the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Right2Water’ collected 1.9 million signatures across Europe against water privatization. It became the first ever successful ECI and has built a Europe-wide movement. Right2Water sought for Europe’s legal enforcement of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRWS) as a strategic political tool to challenge European Union market policies. The paper examines the ECI from a social movement perspective. Although the European Commission subscribed that ‘water is a public good, not a commodity’, its implementation is subject to continuing politics and socio-political struggle, with growing urgency in times of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, A ‘common sense’ response to health inequalities in Peru? Public-private partnerships in health and the implications for the right to health and economic inequality(Oxford University Press, 2024-11-01)Drawing on the case of Peru, our analysis looks at the ways in which the mainstream media creates support for government policies aimed at implementing Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the health sector. Peru has a highly fragmented and segmented healthcare system, and the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the deeply embedded inequalities in accessing healthcare across the country. Nevertheless, the construction of hospitals financed and managed via a PPP arrangement has been one of the major solutions proposed and implemented by successive Peruvian governments in response to the health sector’s challenges. As our analysis demonstrates, the media has played a significant role in promoting this ‘common sense’ agenda whereby greater reliance on the private sector is presented as a solution to the weaknesses of the public sector. Our article considers the wider evidence on the role of PPPs in the health sector and contends that there is very little evidence on the system-wide benefits of PPPs, thus raising significant concerns about their ability to address health inequalities effectively. It also raises important questions about how far PPPs are able to support states in guaranteeing the right to health for their citizens. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Private financing in health: What does this mean for gender equality?(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2024-01-01)123—144 An established body of literature has starkly demonstrated the gendered impacts of privatization of ‘the social’ in the context of economic reforms in the 1980s and 1990s including the implications for the health sector. Nevertheless, we have seen a continued expansion of the role of the private sector to finance and deliver health care services and the increased financialization of the health sector evident for example in the growth of private health insurance companies and private finance initiatives for health care infrastructure. In this chapter we consider what these trends mean in a Latin American context, and, drawing more specifically on examples from Chile and Peru, we reflect on some of the limitations of this development from a gender perspective and interrogate some of the gendered assumptions that underpin this trend. We consider what the gendered implications of these processes are for a future research agenda. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Social Movements in Defense of Public Water Services: The Case of Spain(Frontiers Media SA, 2023-01-01)In several cities and regions in Spain there has been a fight against privatization of water supply in the past decade. Some cities have decided to re-municipalise water supply and debates about implementing the human right to water and sanitation have been held in many parts of Spain, following the success of the Right2Water European Citizens' Initiative. This paper examines how the European “Right2Water” movement influenced struggles for access to and control over water in Spain from a political ecology perspective. It explores how “Right2Water” fuelled the debate on privatization and remunicipalization of water services and what heritage it has left in Spain. We unfold relationships with and between water movements in Spain—like the Red Agua Publica—and relationships with other networks—like the indignados movement and subsequently how water protests converged with austerity protests. In different places these struggles took different shapes. By deploying five case studies (Madrid, Valladolid, Terrassa, Barcelona, and Andalucía), we look at how the human right to water and sanitation framework served as a tool for social and water justice movements. Struggles for water justice in Spain are ongoing and we seek to identify the temporarily outcomes of these struggles, and whether power balances in Spain's water services provision have shifted in the past decade.