[AK.IPO] Book talk this Thursday: ‘Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism: a time of reproductive unrest’

[Moore, Madelaine Fitzgerald]

Dear all,

The Critical Political Economy Research Network is hosting an online discussion/book launch on my new book ‘Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism: a time of reproductive unrest’ (out with MUP) this Thursday at 6pm Central European Time. https://criticalpoliticaleconomy.net/2023/07/05/water-struggles-as-resistance-to-neoliberal-capitalism-a-time-of-reproductive-unrest/



On zoom, register here: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcof-uurTsoGtcrKyAzmp8jLUNFOLiioTKf

Abstract:

This book provides an important intervention into social reproduction theory and the politics of water. Presenting an incorporated comparison, it analyses the conjuncture following the 2007 financial crisis through the lens of water expropriation and resistance. This brings into view the way that transnational capital has made use of and been facilitated by the strategic selectivities of both the Irish and the Australian state, as well as the particular class formations that emerged in resistance to such water grabs. What is revealed is a crisis-ridden system that is marked by increasing reproductive unrest – class understood through the lens of social reproduction theory. As an important analysis of two significant water struggles, the book makes a compelling argument for integrating the study of social movements within critical political economy

The book is available here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165985/

Madelaine Moore<https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_publ/publ/PersonDetail.jsp;jsessionid=5B072F617E6C806E533D5BE1ED2ED3A8?personId=259844099> is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, working on eco-social policies. Her research pushes forward a political economy from below that engages with how people live and contest the multiple crises of contemporary capitalism. She is particularly interested in debates on primitive accumulation, social reproduction theory and labour, and what happens at the margins where different social relations and value systems interact. Empirically she focusses on water policy, rural political economy, and the social and political effects of environmental policy

Discussants:

Aliki Koutlou<https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/aliki.koutlou>, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester

Gemma Gasseau<https://cosmos.sns.it/person/2872/>, PhD candidate in Transnational Governance at the Scuola Normale Superiore and Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies

Book Endorsements:
'The planet's water is in peril, seen as a resource for the global economy at the service of transnational capital. In her powerful new book, Madelaine Moore shows us that water does not exist outside the politics and culture that shapes our core values. To protect water and the human right to water requires a profound commitment to social change and true democracy from the ground up.'
Maude Barlow, water activist and co-founder Blue Planet Project

'Madelaine Moore's concept of "reproductive unrest" provides a sophisticated lens on emerging resistances to the world-wide commercialisation of water services. Her comparison of distinctive instances of water grabbing in Australia and Ireland foregrounds a global patterning of public services captured by transnational capital. Corresponding civic mobilisations animate her sensitive exposition of maturing socio-ecological movements in defence of social reproduction needs. Moore's analysis offers an exemplary inquiry into the changing complexion, meaning and impact of contemporary anti-capitalist resistances.'
Philip McMichael, Professor Emeritus of Global Development, Cornell University

Cheers,
Madelaine

Dr. Madelaine Moore
Postdoctoral Researcher
German and Transnational Social Policy
Department of Sociology
The University of Bielefeld

Book Review Editor, Social Movement Studies
Associate Editor, Global Social Policy

Recent Publications:
New Book! Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism: A Time of Reproductive Unrest, Manchester University Press, order here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165985/

2023, Bieler A., Moore, M., 'Water Grabbing, Capitalist Accumulation and Resistance: Conceptualising the Multiple Dimensions of Class Struggle’ Global labour Journal
2023, 'A Time of Reproductive Unrest: The Articulation of Capital Accumulation, Social Reproduction and the Irish State.' New Political Economy
2022, Altun, S., Caiconte, C., Moore, M., Morton, A., Scanlan, R., Ryan, M., Smidt, A., 'The Life Nerve of the Dialectic: György Lukács and the Metabolism of Space and Nature.' Review of International Political Economy
2022, 'Liquid Gold or the Source of Life: Understanding water commodification as a contradictory and contested political project', Globalizations





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