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The Global Politics of Bottled Water

The Global Politics of Bottled Water

My talk at the 2016 International Studies Association.

Raul Pacheco-Vega

March 25, 2016
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  1. The Global Politics of Bottled
    Water: Towards an Integrative
    Research Agenda
    DR. RAUL PACHECO-VEGA
    CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DOCENCIA ECONÓMICAS (CIDE)
    INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ISA) 2016
    ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA. MARCH 16TH, 2016

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  4. Bottled water: A global environmental
    governance paradox
     Water should be a global human right (UN Resolution
    64/292, July 28, 2010)
     Yet, bottled water has grown to become one of the
    most profitable industries globally.
     Commodifying the human right to water (Pacheco-
    Vega 2015)

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  5. Research Question
     How can we analyze bottled water within the
    context of a global environmental dynamics? and
     What analytical purchase do these approaches give
    us?
     global environmental politics
     comparative politics
     international relations

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  6. Two interrelated bodies of literature
    Comparative Politics
     National patterns of bottled water
    sociopolitical dynamics
     Consumption
     Trading (domestic markets)
     Bottled water vs. soft drinks
     Comparisons of domestic
    regulations towards bottled water
     Extraction
     Distribution
     Marketing
    International relations
     Geopolitics
     Bottled water as a source of
    international/transnational conflict
     International political economy
     Global markets where packaged
    water trading occurs
     Norm diffusion (or NON-diffusion)
     Human right to water as a norm – is
    it conflicting with BW global
    acceptance?

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  7. Transnationalism and bottled water
     Role of states in governing bottled water (IR)
     Role of non-state actors in the global governance of bottled water
     Two interrelated projects:
     Comparing environmental activism (comparative politics)
     against bottled water
     pro-tap water
     Transnational environmental coalition building or transnational activism (IR)
     Towards promoting HRW (HRW as an international norm that can be then pushed
    forward by environmental NGOs)

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  8. HRW as a frame of meaning against
    privatization of water supply vs acceptance
    of bottled water (norm diffusion)

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  9. HRW and BW from a domestic-
    international perspective
     Whereas previous conceptualizations of HRW focused on it as
    STRATEGY, I side with Mirosa and Harris (2012) in that we
    need to reconsider HRW as a framework for GOAL
    ATTAINMENT.
     Implementing the HRW will necessitate a focus on two
    simultaneous strategies:
    a) Remunicipalization of private water service delivery
    b) Regulation and control of the global bottled water industry across
    scales

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  10. Thank you!
    Raul Pacheco-Vega, PhD
    http://www.raulpacheco.org
    Twitter: @raulpacheco
    Facebook: DrPachecoVega
    E-mail: [email protected]

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