Democracy and Global Water Politics in Historical Perspective

Jose Esteban Castro is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. He is a corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and a regular Visiting Professor in universities in Europe and Latin America. Previous books include Water, Power, and Citizenship. Social Struggle in the Basin of Mexico (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Water and Sanitation Services. Public Policy and Management, coedited with L. Heller (2009, 2011), and Time, Science, and the Critique of Technological Reason, coedited with B. Fowler, and L. Gomes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Commodification and democratization processes.- Chapter 3 "Free market" privatist water politics.- Chapter 4 State-led capitalist water regime, water services and the reproduction of inequality and injustice.- Chapter 5 The attempted revival of "free market" water politics in the late twentieth century.- Chapter 6 A failed fairy story, with ongoing consequences.- Chapter 7 The Legacy of neoprivatist water politics.- Chapter 8 Water struggles and substantive democracy.- Chapter 9 Conclusions.