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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mike Gonzalez , Marianella YanesPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.277kg ISBN: 9780745334912ISBN 10: 0745334911 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 20 September 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables and Boxes Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Floating Planet 2. How Water was Privatised 3. Disasters, Natural and Otherwise 4. A Short Trip through Amazonia 5. Bitter Harvests 6. Virtual Water 7. Water and Global Warming 8. Ya Basta! Enough Is Enough! 9. What Is to Be Done? 10. A New World Water Order Notes IndexReviews'Seminal' -- LSE Review of Books 'Water is a resource that belongs to all of us, and this perceptive book takes issue with the way global capitalism has redefined water as a commodity, and depicts the bitter harvest that has resulted from water privatisation.' -- Richard Boyd Barrett T.D. (Member of Irish Parliament) 'A definitive analysis of the current world water challenge. To understand the crisis of governance that has changed water as a human right to a profitable commodity for financial interests, you must read The Last Drop.' -- Marcela Olivera is the coordinator of the Red VIDA, an Inter-American water justice network. 'In this sobering account of hydro-politics, Gonzalez and Yanes remind us that human greed - not environmental inadequacy - lies at the heart of the global water 'crisis'.' -- Dr Marcelle Dawson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Vice-President, Research Committee 47 (Social Classes and Social Movements), International Sociological Association. 'Books like this are rare. Eloquent, poetic, enraged, committed, Marxist, environmentalist, written from the Global South, a book full of fire.' -- Jonathan Neale, author of Stop Global Warming, Change the World 'Seminal' -- LSE Review of Books Seminal -- LSE Review of Books Water is a resource that belongs to all of us, and in this perceptive yet accessible book Mike Gonzalez takes issue with the way global capitalism has redefined water as a commodity, and depicts the bitter harvest that has resulted from water privatisation. -- Richard Boyd Barrett T.D. (Member of Irish Parliament) Gonzalez and Yanes have produced a definitive analysis of the current world water challenge. This book details how the 'modern' world has created a shortage unprecedented in human history while separating the popular theme of domestic consumption from the true water consumers: the corporations. To understand the crisis of governance that has changed water as a human right to a profitable commodity for financial interests, you must read The Last Drop. -- Marcela Olivera is the coordinator of the Red VIDA, an Inter-American water justice network. In this sobering account of hydro-politics, Gonzalez and Yanes remind us that human greed - not environmental inadequacy - lies at the heart of the global water 'crisis'. The authors call for a 'New International Water Order', born out of the needs and realties of ordinary people. This book is a must-read for all those wishing to end corporate control of everyday life. -- Dr Marcelle Dawson, Senior Lecturer in Sociology (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Vice-President, Research Committee 47 (Social Classes and Social Movements), International Sociological Association. Books like this are rare. Eloquent, poetic, enraged, committed, Marxist, environmentalist, written from the Global South, a book full of the fire and feeling of the Latin American social movements. The authors are activists, so they love the Earth, hate capitalist inequality, and write in hope. -- Jonathan Neale, author of Stop Global Warming, Change the World Author InformationMike Gonzalez is Emeritus Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Ebb of the Pink Tide (Pluto, 2018) The Last Drop: The Politics of Water (Pluto, 2015) and Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-first Century (Pluto, 2014). He is co-editor of Arms and the People (Pluto, 2012). Marianella Yanes is a Venezuelan journalist and writer for television and film. Until January 2009 she worked for the Venezuelan State Oil Corporation (PDVSA) as a journalist and documentary maker. She is the co-author of The Last Drop (Pluto, 2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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