dc.contributor.author
López Rivera, Diana Marcela
dc.date.accessioned
2018-06-08T08:18:48Z
dc.date.available
2013-03-15T15:20:20.465Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/19800
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-23318
dc.description.abstract
Over the past two decades, Colombia has witnessed a significant shift in the
overall legal and policy domain in the water sector in order to adjust to the
demands imposed by neoliberal economic reforms. Particularly in urban areas,
this reform model has been deeply contested as it failed to provide low-income
population with access to affordable and adequate water supply services. This
paper explores how the implementation of market-driven reforms in the water
supply sector has become a key factor in reproducing patterns of unequal
access to water. By drawing upon case-study research conducted in Medellín,
Colombia, this study investigates the causal interconnection between the
commercialization and transnationalization of the city’s public multi-utility
company as a strategy to be competitive in a globalized environment on the one
hand, and the increasing number of households disconnected from the formal
water supply networks particularly in low-income areas for non-payment of
bills, on the other hand. By bringing together work on urban political ecology
and neoliberalization of nature, this paper illustrates how inequalities in
access to water in Medellín’s waterscape are facilitated by governance
structures which are articulated to neoliberal strategies, whose social power
relations are simultaneously sustained by an intertwined set of socioeconomic
mechanisms, discursive practices as well as technological infrastructures.
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urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000114-6
dc.rights.uri
http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject
neoliberalization
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.title
Flows of water, flows of capital
dc.contributor.contact
contacto@desigualdades.net
dc.title.subtitle
neoliberalization and inequality in Medellín’s urban waterscape
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
http://www.desigualdades.net/bilder/Working_Paper/38_WP_Lopez_Online.pdf
refubium.affiliation
Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI)
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refubium.affiliation.other
desiguALdades.net
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FUDOCS_document_000000016965
refubium.series.issueNumber
38
refubium.series.name
Working Paper Series / desiguALdades.net
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FUDOCS_derivate_000000002419
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access