Commodification and ‘the commons’: the politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis

Bieler, Andreas and Jordan, Jamie (2017) Commodification and ‘the commons’: the politics of privatising public water in Greece and Portugal during the Eurozone Crisis. European Journal of International Relations . ISSN 1460-3713

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Abstract

In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s (EU) peripheral member states in order to receive financial bailout loans. In addition to cuts in funding of essential public services, cuts in public sector employment and further liberalisation of labour markets, this has also included pressure towards the privatisation of state assets. And yet, workers have not simply accepted these restructuring pressures. They have organised and fought back against austerity and enforced privatisation. Based on a historical materialist perspective and following a strategy of incorporated comparison, in this paper we will comparatively assess the struggles against enforced water privatisation in Greece and Portugal set against the background of the structuring conditions surrounding the Eurozone crisis.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/884024
Keywords: Eurozone crisis, Greece, Portugal, privatisation, resistance, water struggles
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354066117728383
Depositing User: Bieler, Prof. Andreas
Date Deposited: 11 Sep 2017 13:49
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:08
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/45612

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