An Uncooperative Commodity: Privatizing Water in England and Wales

By K. Bakker. 2004

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Citations in the corpus

• Neoliberal Versus Postneoliberal Water: Geographies of Privatization and Resistance (2013, background): “…in developing countries must be understood within the broader context of water industry liberalization in Europe during the 1990s (and Britain in 1989), which enabled French, British, and Spanish water companies to diversify activities internationally (Allouche and Finger 2001; Bakker 2004).”
• What kind of governance for what kind of equity? Towards a theorization of justice in water governance (2014, background): “It has become something of a truism to speak of water in terms of the ‘hydrosocial’ (see, inter alia, Bakker, 2002, 2003; Budds & Hinojosa, 2012; Loftus, 2007, 2009; Swyngedouw, 1999, 2004).”
• Animating capital: Work, commodities, circulation (2019, background): “Nonhuman nature might be ‘uncooperative’ (Bakker, 2003), a source of unpredictability, unruliness and resistance to human action (Bakker and Bridge, 2006; Bakker, 2012), not infinitely malleable but possessing generative capacities confounding efforts to produce nature in particular ways (Bridge,…”
• The Financialization of Water (2014, background): “Karen Bakker (2007) describes water as an “uncooperative commodity” which is not easily categorized.”
• The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Complex Global Challenges (2015, background): “With its transportability and commodification, energy exhibits a fundamental contradistinction to water as an ‘uncooperative commodity’ (Bakker 2003); the capturability, resource-use exclusion and commodification dimensions of energy make it fundamentally different than water, which is increasingly ”
• The Metabolism of Socioecological Fixes: Capital Switching, Spatial Fixes, and the Production of Nature (2017, background): “Others have similarly explored the notion of a “regulatory fix” in environmental governance (see, e.g., Bakker 2003; While, Jonas, and Gibbs 2004; Macdonald and Keil 2012; Cohen and Bakker 2014).”