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The Italian Mobilisation for Water as a Commons: Moral Economy and Virtual Water

Author : Emanuele Fantini

Published in: The Water We Eat

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In modern and industrialised societies, water—“conquered”, purified, channelled and distributed by means of technology and increasingly complex systems—seems to have lost its central role, not to mention the sacred role it historically held in shaping cultures and civilisation. Yet, over the last years, in different cases, water has returned once again to the attention of the public and become the focus of debate, particularly concerning the controversial question of the privatisation of water services.

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Footnotes
1
The thinking on the mobilisation for public water in this contribution based on the results of a wider study on the Italian movement for water, presented in C. Carrozza’s and E. Fantini’s (edited), Si scrive acqua. Attori, saperi e pratiche nel movimento italiano per l’acqua pubblica, 2013
 
2
Law 5 January 1994, n. 36 “Disposizioni in materia di risorse idriche”.
 
3
“Principi per la tutela, il governo e la gestione pubblica delle acque e disposizioni per la ripubblicizzazione del servizio idrico”. The text for the bill is available in the appendix M. Bersani, Come abbiamo vinto il referendum. Dalla battaglia per l’acqua pubblica alla democrazia dei beni comuni, Edizioni Alegre, Rome, 2011.
 
4
Law n. 166 of 20 November 2009, conversion with amendments of Decree-legislation n. 135 of 25 September 2009, resulting from urgent provisions to put into effect the EU obligations and the ruling of the European Court of Justice.
 
5
The Commission’s work did not have any institutional follow-up. The acts from seminar of the presentation of the Commission’s work are collected in the volume of U. Mattei, E. Reviglio, S. Rodotà (edited by), I beni pubblici. Dal governo democratico dell’economia alla riforma del codice civile, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome 2010. Also see Id., Invertire la rotta: idee per una riforma della proprietà pubblica, il Mulino, Bologna 2007.
 
6
Due to the movement for water concerning the experience of Teatro Valle Occupato cfr. Faris (2012), “Va in scena l’autogestione”, Internazionale, 15 June.
The Italian Forum of movements for the land and landscapes officially presents itself as “a grouping of associations and citizens from all of Italy (on the Forum for Public Water model) which, maintaining the peculiarities of each subject, intends to pursue a single objective—to save the Italian landscape and regions from deregulation and illegal constructions” (quoted from the Forum website, http://​www.​salviamoilpaesag​gio.​it, latest retrieved on March, 4th, 2015).
 
7
Istituto Piepoli, Indagine nazionale sulla percezione del servizio idrico da parte dei consumatori, June 2012, available at www.​agcom.​it.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Italian Mobilisation for Water as a Commons: Moral Economy and Virtual Water
Author
Emanuele Fantini
Copyright Year
2015
Book
The Water We Eat

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-16392-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-16393-2

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16393-2_10