247
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Life as debt, or debt to life? Water, finance and infrastructure

References

  • Appel, H. (2023, February 8). Tenant, worker, debtor, student. The New York Review. Retrieved from https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/02/08/tenant-debtor-worker-student/
  • Arendt, H. (1976). The origins of totalitarianism. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
  • Bakker, K. (2004). An uncooperative commodity: Privatizing water in England and Wales. Oxford University Press.
  • Bakker, K. (2013). Neoliberal versus postneoliberal water: Geographies of privatization and resistance. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(2), 253–260.
  • Ballestero, A. (2015). The ethics of a formula: Calculating a financial-humanitarian price for water. American Ethnologist, 42(2), 262–278.
  • Ballestero, A. (2019). A future history of water. Duke University Press.
  • Bayliss, K. (2014). The financialization of water. Review of Radical Political Economics, 46(3), 292–307.
  • Bayliss, K. (2016). Material cultures of water financialization in England and Wales. New Political Economy, 22(4), 383–397.
  • Bear, L. (2015). Navigating austerity: Currents of debt along a South Asian river. Stanford University Press.
  • Bear, L. (2017). Alternative to austerity: A critique of financialized infrastructure in India and beyond. Anthropology Today, 33(5), 3–7.
  • Bear, L. (2020). Speculations on infrastructure: From colonial public works to a postcolonial global asset class on the indian railways, 1840-2017. Economy and Society, 49(1), 1–26.
  • Bersani, M. (2011). Come abbiamo vinto il referendum: Dalla battaglia per l’acqua pubblica alla democrazia dei beni comuni. Tempi Moderni.
  • Beveridge, R. (2012). Consultants, depoliticization and arena-shifting in the policy process: Privatizing water in Berlin. Policy Sciences, 45(1), 47–68.
  • Beveridge, R. & Naumann, M. (2014). Global norms, local contestation: Privatisation and de/politicisation in Berlin. Policy and Politics, 42(2), 275–291.
  • Bieler, A. (2021). Fighting for water: Resisting privatization in Europe. Bloomsbury/Zed Books.
  • Birla, R. (2009). Stages of capital: Law, culture, and market governance in late colonial India. Duke University Press.
  • Bresnihan, P. (2016). The bio-financialization of Irish water: New advances in the neoliberalization of vital services. Utilities Policy, 40, 115–124.
  • Byrd, A., Goldstein, A., Melamed, J. & Reddy, C. (2018). Predatory value: economies of dispossession and disturbed relationalities. Social Text, 36(2), 1–18.
  • Campra, M., Oricchio, G., Braja, E. & Esposito, P. (2014). Sovereign risk and public-private partnership during the euro crisis. Springer.
  • Cavallero, L. & Gago, V. (2021). A feminist reading of debt. Pluto Press.
  • Christophers, B. & Fine, B. (2020). The value of financialization and the financialization of value. In P. Mader, D. Mertens & N. van der Zwan (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of financialization (pp. 19–30). Routledge.
  • Collier, S. J. (2011). Post-Soviet social: Neoliberalism, social modernity, biopolitics. Princeton University Press.
  • Corriere della Sera. (2016). Acqua, ancora aumenti delle tariffe: Proteste in 20 Comuni dell’ex Ato3. Retrieved from https://napoli.corriere.it/notizie/economia/16_settembre_29/acqua-ancora-aumenti-tariffe-proteste-20-comuni-dell-ex-ato3-425c2074-8618-11e6-832a-cce4cd3e89ac.shtml
  • Cooper, M. & Mitropoulos, A. (2009). The household frontier. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization, 9(4), 363–368.
  • Croce, R. D. & Yermo, J. (2013). Institutional investors and infrastructure financing (OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions, No. 36). OECD.
  • Derrida, J. (1992). Force of law: The mystical foundation of authority. In D. Cornell, M. Rosenfeld & D. G. Carlson (Eds.), Deconstruction and the possibility of justice (pp. 3–67). Routledge.
  • Dukelow, F. (2016). Irish water services reform: Past, present and future. In M. Murphy & F. Dukelow (Eds.), The Irish welfare state in the twenty-first century (pp. 141–165). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Eliade, M. (1958). Patterns in comparative religion. (R. Sheed, Trans.). Sheed and Ward.
  • Fattori, T. (2011). Fluid democracy: The Italian water revolution. Retrieved from https://www.transform-network.net/publications/yearbook/overview/article/journal-092011/fluid-democracy-the-italian-water-revolution
  • Fattori, T. (2013). From the water commons movement to the commonification of the public realm. South Atlantic Quarterly, 112(2), 377–387.
  • Federici, S. (2018). Witches, witch-hunting, and women. PM Press.
  • Foster, R. J. (2018). Entropy, alchemy and negative pigs: Obviating the matter of wealth. History and Anthropology, 29(3), 292–306.
  • Fusco, F. (2014, July 14). Castellammare di Stabia: Acqua della Madonna, fonti ancora chiuse. Retrieved from https://stabiesi.net/2014/07/castellammare-di-stabia-acqua-della-madonna-fonti-ancora-chiuse/
  • Gandy, M. (2014). The fabric of space: Water, modernity, and the urban imagination. MIT Press.
  • Gemma, A. (2016, June 4). Inchiesta Gori, consulenze nel mirino: Morosit. Record per il caro bollette. La Repubblica Edizione. Retrieved from https://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2016/06/04/news/inchiestagoriconsulenzenelmirinomorosita_recordperilcarobollette-141261596/
  • Giovannini, R. (2017, July 7). Le quattro sorelle dell’acqua: Ecco i padroni dei rubinetti italiani. La Stampa. Retrieved from https://www.lastampa.it/tuttogreen/2017/07/07/news/le-quattro-sorelle-dell-acqua-ecco-i-padroni-dei-rubinetti-italiani-1.34448241
  • Graeber, D. (2011). Debt: The first 5000 years. Melville.
  • Guano, E. (2010). Taxpayers, thieves, and the state: Fiscal citizenship in contemporary Italy. Ethnos, 75(4), 471–495.
  • Hall, D. & Lobina, E. (2012). Financing water and sanitation: Public realities. Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU). University of Greenwich.
  • Harvey, D. (2004). The ‘new’ imperialism: Accumulation by dispossession. Socialist Register, 40, 63–87. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/818816195?pq-origsite=summon
  • Hines, S. (2021). Water for all: Community, property, and revolution in modern Bolivia. University of California Press.
  • Hopman, L., Kishimoto, S., Russell, B. & Valentin, L. (2021, September). Democratic and collective ownership of public goods and services: Exploring public-community collaborations. Transnational Institute (TNI).
  • Kockelman, P. (2020). Kinds of value: An experiment in modal anthropology. Prickly Paradigm Press.
  • Langley, P. (2018). Frontier financialization: Urban infrastructure in the United Kingdom. Economic Anthropology, 5(2), 172–184.
  • Langley, P. (2020a). The folds of social finance: Making markets, remaking the social. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(1), 130–147.
  • Langley, P. (2020b). The financialization of life. In P. Mader, D. Mertens & N. van der Zwan (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of financialization (1st Ed., pp. 68–78). Routledge.
  • Leach, A., García, C. & Laville, S. (2022, November 30). Revealed: More than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership. Guardian.
  • Leins, S. (2020). Responsible investment: ESG and the post-crisis ethical order. Economy and Society, 49(1), 1–21.
  • Li, T. (2007). The will to improve: Governmentality, politics, and the practice of politics. Duke University Press.
  • Li, T. (2014). What is land? Assembling a resource for global investment. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39(4), 589–602.
  • Lobina, E. (2014). Troubled waters: Misleading industry PR and the case for public water. Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU). Retrieved from http://www.psiru.org/sites/default/files/2014-11-W-TroubledWaters.pdf
  • Manjapra, K. (2019). Necrospeculation: Postemancipation finance and black redress. Social Text, 37(2), 29–65.
  • Marois, T. (2021). Public banks: Decarbonization, definancialization, and democratisation. Cambridge University Press.
  • Martin, R. (2002). Financialization of daily life. Temple University Press.
  • Massarutto, A. (2020, April). Servant of too many masters: Residential water pricing and the challenge of sustainability. Utilities Policy, 63, 101018. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2020.101018
  • Mattei, U. (2013). Protecting the commons: Water, culture, and nature; the commons movement in the Italian struggle against neoliberal governance. South Atlantic Quarterly, 112(2), 366–376.
  • Mattioli, F. (2021). Dark finance: Illiquidity and authoritarianism at the margins of Europe. Stanford University Press.
  • Mbembe, A. & Roitman, J. (1995). Figures of the subject in times of crisis. Public Culture, 7(2), 323–352.
  • McAllister, C. (2020). No one can hold it back: The theopolitics of water and life in Chilean Patagonia without dams. Social Analysis, 64(4), 121–139.
  • McDonald, D. A., Marois, T. & Spronk, S. (2021). Public banks + public water = SDG 6?. Water Alternatives, 14(1), 117–134.
  • Mitchell, T. (2020). Infrastructures work on time. Retrieved from https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/new-silk-roads/312596/infrastructures-work-on-time/
  • Moore, M. (2019). Wellsprings of resistance: Struggles over water in Europe. RLS Brussels.
  • Moore, M. (2023). Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism: A time of reproductive unrest. Manchester University Press.
  • Moss, T. (2020). Remaking Berlin: A history of the city through infrastructure, 1920–2020. MIT Press.
  • Muehlebach, A. (2017, February 6). The Irish water insurgency: No more blood from these stones. Roar Magazine. Retrieved from https://roarmag.org/essays/ireland-anti-austerity-water-protests/
  • Muehlebach, A. (2018). Commonwealth: On democracy and dispossession in Italy. History and Anthropology, 29(3), 342–358.
  • Muehlebach, A. (2023a). A vital frontier: Water insurgencies in Europe. Duke University Press.
  • Muehlebach, A. (2023b). Contract as frontier device, or the political publics of water infrastructures. Journal of Cultural Economy, 16(3), 363–376.
  • Musaraj, S. (2023). Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery. American Anthropologist, 125(4), 865–879.
  • Narotzky, S. & Besnier, N. (2014). Crisis, value, and hope: Rethinking the economy – An Introduction to Supplement 9. Current Anthropology, 55(59), 4–16.
  • Peebles, G. (2010). The anthropology of credit and debt. Annual Review of Anthropology, 39(1), 225–240.
  • Pitt-Rivers, J. (2011 [1992]). The place of grace in anthropology. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 1(1), 423–450.
  • Razsa, M. & Kurnik, A. (2012). The Occupy Movement in Žižek’s hometown: Direct democracy and a politics of becoming. American Ethnologist, 39(2), 238–258.
  • Roitman, J. (2005). Fiscal disobedience: An anthropology of economic regulation in Central Africa. Princeton University Press.
  • Rügemer, W. (2008). Heuschrecken im öffentlichen Raum: Public private partnership-anatomie eines globalen finanzinstruments. Transcript.
  • Schneider, J. & Schneider, P. (2008). The anthropology of crime and criminalization. Annual Review of Anthropology, 37(1), 351–373.
  • Skerrett, K. (2018). Canada’s public pension funds: The ‘new masters of the (neoliberal) universe’. In K. Skerrett, J. Weststar, S. Archer & C. Roberts (Eds.), The contradictions of pension fund capitalism (pp. 121–152). Cornell University Press.
  • Smith, G. (2020). Afterword: Financialization beyond crisis. In C. Hann & D. Kalb (Eds.), Financialization: Relational approaches (pp. 321–332). Berghahn Books.
  • Song, J. (2009). South Korea in the debt crisis: The creation of a neoliberal welfare society. Duke University Press.
  • Subramanian, A. (2009). Shorelines: Space and rights in South India. Stanford University Press.
  • Swyngedouw, E. (2005). Dispossessing H2O: The contested terrain of water privatization. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 16(1), 81–98.
  • Swyngedouw, E. (2019). The new water wars: Struggles for remunicipalisation. Water Alternatives, 12(2), 322–333.
  • von Schnitzler, A. (2016). Democracy’s infrastructure: Techno-politics and protest after apartheid. Princeton University Press.
  • Weber, M. (2000 [1894]). Stock and commodity exchanges [‘Die Börse’ (1894)]. Theory and Society, 29(3), 305–338.
  • Weiss, H. (2022). From desire to endurance: Hanging on in a Spanish village. Cultural Anthropology, 37(1), 45–68.
  • Whiteside, H. (2018). Public works: Better, faster, cheaper infrastructure. Studies in Political Economy, 99(1), 2–19.
  • Whiteside, H. (2019). Advanced perspectives on financialised urban infrastructures. Urban Studies, 56(7), 1477–1484.
  • Yang, J.-S. (2020, July 14). The new ‘water barons’: Wall Street mega-banks are buying up the world’s water. Global Research. Retrieved from https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-water-barons-wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/5383274
  • Zaloom, C. (2017, August 7). Finance. Fieldsights. Retrieved from https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-household-finance

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.