{"id":12333,"date":"2025-01-25T19:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waterlat.org\/?page_id=12333"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T14:27:41","slug":"democracy-water-politics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/publications\/books\/democracy-water-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy and Global Water Politics in Historical Perspective. Against Water Privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cover-Castro-Palgrave-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1938\" src=\"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Cover-Castro-Palgrave-2024.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jose Esteban Castro, Democracy and Global Water Politics in Historical Perspective. Against water privatization. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2024. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-230-21210-7. eBook ISBN 978-1-137-31788-9DOI:https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1057\/978-1-137-31788-9.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Endorsements<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThis book surgically dissects the perverse relation between water privatization<br \/>\nand the slow but insistent decline of democracy. Jose Esteban Castro demonstrates<br \/>\nconclusively that privatisation is not only socially devastating but undermines the<br \/>\nvery foundations of democracy. A must-read for all those concerned with the present<br \/>\nstate of the world and its environments.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester, UK<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis very important book puts the commercialisation, and now financialisation, of water supplies in historical context and delivers a devastating critique of its failures across the world.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014William Outhwaite, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK<br \/>\nEmeritus Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University, UK<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe politics of water has become a key issue in this century of droughts and floods. Jose Esteban Castro\u2019s book is a rare knowledgeable social analysis of it.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014G\u00f6ran Therborn, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK.<\/p>\n<p>This book ia available at <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1057\/978-1-137-31788-9\">Springer Nature&#8217;s Web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Esteban Castro, Democracy and Global Water Politics in Historical Perspective. Against water privatization. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2024. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-230-21210-7. eBook ISBN 978-1-137-31788-9DOI:https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1057\/978-1-137-31788-9. Endorsements \u201cThis book surgically dissects the perverse relation between water privatization and the slow but insistent decline of democracy. Jose Esteban Castro demonstrates conclusively that privatisation is not only socially devastating but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":49,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12970,"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12333\/revisions\/12970"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}