Introduction: The field of global water policy: struggles over redistribution and recognition

0.1 The global water policy field

0.1.1 Transnational institutions

0.1.2 Private sector participation: the wax and wane of multinational corporations

0.1.3 International financial institutions and regulatory frameworks

0.1.4 Transnational advocacy networks and the trajectory of the human right to water

0.2 Research questions, approach and context

0.3 Summary of chapters

1 Rights, regulation and disputing: a conflict-centred approach to transnational governance

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Rights and regulation

1.2.1 Shifting politics of rights and regulation

1.2.2 Decentred transnational legality

1.2.3 Combining two triads

1.3 Competition for the rules

1.3.1 Managed liberalisation

1.3.2 Public participatory governance

1.3.3 Moving away from nested governance: feedback loops and hybridity

2 Managed liberalisation and the dual face of French water services provision

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The story of water in Grenoble

2.3 Regulation

2.3.1 Regulation: the internal face of the French model

2.3.2 Regulation: the external face of the French model

2.4 Rights

2.4.1 Rights: the internal face of the French model

2.4.2 Rights: the external face of the French model

2.5 Conclusion

3 'Another world is possible': Bolivia and the emergence of a participatory public provision model for access to urban water services

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Cochabamba dispute

3.3 A clash of models

3.3.1 The public participatory model

3.3.2 Managed liberalisation in Bolivia

3.4 Micro-level outcomes of the public participatory model

3.4.1 Social control of SEMAPA: the Achilles heel of the public participatory model?

3.4.2 Legislative drafting and the transformation of Law 2029 by Laws 2066/2084

3.4.3 The managed liberalisation model persists: regulatory gaps, international arbitration and the 'GTZ model'

3.5 Macro-level outcomes

3.5.1 Human right to water

3.5.2 Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Latin America (ALBA)

4 Regulatory arbitrage and popcorn politics: contrasting disputing pathways in Argentina and Chile

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Regulatory agencies in comparative contrast: Chile and Argentina

4.2.1 Structure and genesis

4.2.2 Consumers, rights and activists compared

4.3 Two disputing pathways

4.3.1 Argentina: background

4.3.2 Chile: background

4.3.3 Regulatory arbitrage in Chile

4.3.4 Popcorn politics in Argentina

4.4 Transnational dimensions

4.4.1 Argentina

4.4.2 Chile

4.5 Conclusion

4.5.1 Chile

4.5.2 Argentina

5 Moonlight plumbers in comparative perspective: electoral v.constitutional politics of access to water in South Africa and New Zealand

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Two stories

5.3 Regulation in South Africa and New Zealand

5.3.1 Autonomous localism in New Zealand

5.3.2 Tensions in South Africa

5.4 Rights in South Africa and New Zealand

5.4.1 Direct action

5.4.2 Socio-economic rights

5.4.3 Civil and political rights

5.5 Rendering justiciability operable

5.5.1 Electoral politics

5.5.2 Constitutional politics

5.6 Conclusion

6 Law's work: legality and identity in transnational spaces

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Supporting and securing market relations

6.2.1 International investor arbitration

6.2.2 Transnational identities

6.3 Keeping political space open

6.3.1 Uncivil disobedience

6.3.2 Patchwork legality

6.3.3 Rendering justiciability

6.3.4 Transnational identities

6.4 Law as (ambiguously) constitutive of partnership

6.4.1 Community-based approaches

6.4.2 Social enterprise approaches

6.4.3 Law, community and partnership

Epilogue

References

Index