Blue Community Ambassador Gemma Gasseau is organizing an online workshop with Blue Community Ambassador Caitling Schroering:
Global solidarities against water grabbing: Without water, we have nothing.
Please join our upcoming online workshop on the 29th May at 18.00 CEST. We will discuss the book Global solidarities against water grabbing: Without water, we have nothing by Caitlin Schroering.
On zoom, register here
Speaker:
Caitlin Schroering is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Discussants
Filippo Menga is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Bergamo (Italy).
Lydia Karazarifi is PhD Candidate in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence (Italy).
Abstract
Conflicts over water are human-caused events with socio-political and economic causes. From Brazil’s Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB) to environmental activists in Pittsburgh, people are coming together to fight for control of their water. This book examines how movements are communicating and organizing against water privatization and other forms of water grabbing, and explores how movements engage with and learn from each other. Water is at the heart of this book, but Global solidarities against water grabbing is as much about collective struggle and popular organization as it is about water. Based on extensive fieldwork with two movements fighting against water privatization, the book uses anticolonial and feminist research methods to show how global communications and organizing are occurring around water and how Global North movements are engaging with and learning from the Global South and vice versa.
See you there!
