Caitlin Schroering is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC, USA). Her research coalesces around multiple areas of social inquiry, including environmental sociology, resource conflicts, the human right to water, political economy, and transnational social movements, using feminist and anti-colonial research methodologies. She is author of Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing published in September 2024 with Manchester University Press.
«Water should not be a commodity for financial profit. Just as corporate power is attempting to profit off of the privatization of water and working globally to do so, transnational (or trans-local) social movements are also organizing to envision new paths forward where all have access to water, land, and other life-sustaining necessities. Without water, we have nothing.»
Global solidarities against water grabbing.
Without water, we have nothing. By Caitlin Schroering.
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.
Caitlin Schroering, Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, examines how movements are organizing against water privatization and other forms of water grabbing, providing a feminist and anticolonial analysis.
In August 2024, Camila Frois held an extensive interview with Blue Community Ambassador Caitlin Schroering for the Brazilian Movimento Dos Atingidos Por Barragens MAB. We translated the interview and publish it here with consent of Camila Frois and Caitlin Schroering. Read the interview.