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A Politics of Inevitability

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-94056-4

ISBN: 978-3-531-18219-3

Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften - Springer Journals

Oct 4, 2011

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Context, themes and strategy

Beveridge, Ross

Pages: 15 –32

[On the 29th October 1999, the partial privatisation of the Berlin Water Company, Berliner Wasserbetriebe (BWB), was finalised when the city of Berlin entered a public-private partnership with RWE Umwelt AG/Vivendi (now Véolia) S.A/Allianz. This partial privatisation, the result of a lengthy and...
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Privatisation, globalisation and neo-liberalism: governance in the 1990s

Beveridge, Ross

Pages: 33 –52

[Although this study is concerned with privatisation in terms of the policy that has emerged since the 1970s, privatisation is not a new phenomenon. It can, for example, be traced back to ancient Greece, where the government owned the land, forests and mines but ‘outsourced’ work to firms and...
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Facts and values in policy-making

Beveridge, Ross

Pages: 53 –70

[Despite the controversy one could expect with a partial privatisation of water supply and sewage services, particularly in a ‘left-ish’ city like Berlin, the BWB privatisation was presented by the government as commonsensical and its implementation was, according to interviewees, relatively...
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Governmentality, policy discourse and translation

Beveridge, Ross

Pages: 71 –105

[Policy-making in Berlin in the 1990s is as much a story of urban governance in the context of globalisation as it is an account of reunification. During this decade Berlin was suddenly exposed to the processes other industrialised cities had been facing since the 1970s. It is a decade defined by...
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The global city policy discourse and water policy-making: making the privatisation of BWB ‘inevitable’

Beveridge, Ross

Pages: 107 –145

[In January 1999, the Berlin government, in partnership with Deutsche Telekom, unveiled three new Mediapolis projects. These were presented as part of Die Wende (“the transition”) from an industrial-based economy to an information society. The emphasis was on “innovation”, “new media” and...
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From ready-made accounts to a politics in the making account of the privatisation of BWB

Beveridge, Ross

Pages: 147 –188

[The previous chapter revealed some of the discursive and material processes through which the partial privatisation of BWB became ‘inevitable’. By exploring policy-making in 1990s Berlin with reference to the global city policy discourse, the aim was to get beyond a simplified account of how and...
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Assessing the BWB partial privatisation

Beveridge, Ross

Pages: 189 –201

[At the start of the study the partial privatisation of BWB and urban governance in Berlin were presented as being emblematic of broader political trends during the period. The BWB privatisation was characterised by the ‘no alternative’ study which accompanied many privatisations during this...
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Assessing the theoretical approach

Beveridge, Ross

Pages: 203 –213

[Although only the BWB case was analysed, the approach employed here was not specifically oriented to water governance, privatisation processes or to the context of Berlin in the 1990s. Rather the aim was to develop a general, constructivist approach to policy-making, one which addressed the...

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