Publicaciones del MSP

Este apartado presenta las publicaciones generadas por los investigadores del MSP y sus contrapartes. Su diversidad es muy amplia, y van desde artículos académicos a libros, pasando por herramientas para la educación popular, boletines y artículos de prensa. Las publicaciones se pueden leer en línea y/o descargar pulsando en el vínculo correspondiente.

LIBROS

Electric Capitalism: Recolonizing Africa on the Power Grid
World City Syndrome: Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town
The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa
Dumping on women: Gender and privatisation of waste management
Environmental Justice in South Africa
Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa

CAPITULOS DE LIBRO

• Greg Ruiters (2007) “New faces of privatization: from comrades to customers” in Patrick Bond, Herman Chitonga and Arnt Hopfman (eds.), The Accumulation of capital in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Development Studies.
• David A. McDonald and Greg Ruiters (2006) Rethinking Privatization Towards a Critical Theoretical Perspective in Daniel Chavez (ed ), Beyond the Market: The future of public services. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute, pp 9-20.
• Greg Ruiters (2006) Public services: transformation or stasis? in Daniel Chavez (ed), Beyond the Market: The future of public services. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute, pp 127-135.
• Greg Ruiters (2006)“Social Control and Social welfare under Neoliberalism in South Africa. Contradictions in Free Basic Water” in Cities in Contemporary Africa, Murray. M and Meyers. G (eds.) Palgrave MacMillan. New York.
• Greg Ruiters and Laila Smith, “The public/private conundrum of urban water politics: a view from South Africa” in Nik Heynen, Swyndedouw, E  (ed), In the Nature of Cities, Urban Political Ecology, New York: Routledge, 2006
• Karen Cocq, Greg Ruiters, Patrick Bond and David McDonald, “Water commodification and the threat to health” Alternative World Health Report, Global Health Watch, London. Zed Press, 2005.
• Greg Ruiters “Water Privatization and the struggle for basic services in South Africa,” in Afriche e oriente, Vol. 3-4, (2003).
• Greg Ruiters,  “Water Commodity” in Char Miller (ed.), History in Dispute, 7: Water and the Environment since 1945: Global Perspectives, Gale Publishing. Chicago, (2001).
• Greg Ruiters, “Drought and Liquidity: Water shortages and Surpluses in Post Apartheid South Africa” in Y Muthien, M Khosa and A Zegeya (eds.) Democracy and Governance Review, Pretoria, Human Sciences Research Council and Ashgate Press, (2001, with Patrick Bond).

ARTICULOS ACADEMICOS

• Gemma Boag and David A McDonald A Critical Review of Public-Public Partnerships in Water Services, Water Alternatives, 3(1), February 2010
• Greg Ruiters, “Contradictions in municipal services in contemporary South Africa: disciplinary commodification and self-disconnections”, Critical Social Policy, 27(4), November 2007
• David A McDonald and L Smith, Privatising Cape Town: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in the Mother City, Urban Studies, 41(8), July 2004.
• Greg Ruiters “Hard to swallow, recent developments in municipal services and conditions of access”, in Alternatives, Vol. 2 (8) April 2004
• Melanie Samson, SA's Vulnerable Out on the Streets, SA Labour Bulletin, 28(1) 2004
• Greg Ruiters, “Water privatization in South Africa” ESR Review, Vol. 4, No 4, November 2003
• Greg Ruiters,  “Local government confronts the new ungovernability” Debate, 9 August. pp 13-17. (2003)
• David A. McDonald, No Money No Service: South African's poorest citizens lose out under attempts to recover service costs for water and power, Alternatives, 28(2), 2002
• Alexander J Loftus and David A McDonald, Of Liquid Dreams: A Political Ecology of Water Privatization in Buenos Aires, Environment and Urbanization, 13(2), October 2001
• John Pape, A Public Sector Alternative: SAMWU's Efforts, SA Labour Bulletin 25(4), August 2001
• Greg Rutiers,  “After basic needs, social justice and water politics” in Debate, 5, 2001, pp 16-23
• Greg Rutiers, “Water Transnationals pull the strings” in Land and Rural Digest Nov/Dec 2000 No 15, pp 40-41

ARTICULOS OCASIONALES

• No 1: Poised to Succeed or Set Up to Fail A Case Study of South Africa First Public Public Partnership
• No 2: Lessons from Argentina 
• No 3: The Commercialization of Waste Management in South Africa
• No 4: The Electricity Crisis in Soweto
• No 5: Block Tariffs or Blocked Access? The Greater Hermanus Water Conservation Programme.
• No 6: Local Economic Development Debates in South Africa
• No 7: Privatizing Cape Town: Service Delivery and Policy Reform Since 1996
• No 8: Who Cares for Health Care Workers: The State of Occupational Health and Safety in Municipal Health Clinics in South Africa.
• No 9: Public-Public Partnerships in Health and Essential Services
• No 10: Still Paying the Price: Revisiting the Cholera Epidemic of 2000-2001 in South Africa
• No 11: The GATs and South Africa's National Health Act: A Cautionary Tale
• No 12: How Depressing: Poverty, Mental Health and Municipal Services in South Africa
• No 13: The Problem of Handwashing and Paying for Water in South Africa
• No 14: Marketization of Municipal Services, Daily Life and HIV in South Africa
• No 15: Public is as Private Does: The Confused Case of Rand Water in South Africa

DOCUMENTOS DE FONDO

• David McDonald, Municipal Bureaucrats and Environmental Policy in Cape Town
• Greg Ruiters and Patrick Bond, Contradictons in Municipal Transformation from Apartheid to Democracy: The Battle Over Local Water Privatization in South Africa
• David Letsie and Patrick Bond, Debating Supply and Demand Characteristics of Bulk Infrastructure: Lesotho-Johannesburg Water Transfer
• Patrick Bond, Economic Growth, Ecological Modernization or Environmental Justice? Conflicting Discourses in South Africa Today
• Patrick Bond and Robyn Stein, Environmental and Water Management Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa
• David McDonald, Ideology and Urban Ecology in the New South Africa
• David McDonald, Immigration and Homelessness in the New South Africa
• Ben Cashdan, Local Government and Poverty in South Africa
• Laila Smith, The Urban Political Ecology of Water in Cape Town, South Africa
• Stephen Hosking and Patrick Bond, Infrastructure for Spatial Development Initiatives or for Basic Needs? Port Elizabeth's Prioritisation of the Coega Port/IDZ over Municipal Services
• Patrick Bond, George Dor and Greg Ruiters, Transformation in Infrastructure Policy from Apartheid to Democracy

INFORMES ESPECIALES

• Organizing in the Informal Economy: Case Study of the Municipal Waste Management Industry in South Africa - A Special Report for the International Labour Office (ILO), 2004
• ESR Review, 03 November 2003
• Joint Submission by Cosatu and Samwu on the Draft White Paper on Water Services, 29 February 2003
• Commodification of Public Goods: Critique and Alternatives, February 2003
• The Bell Tolls for Thee: Cost Recovery, Cutoffs and the Affordability of Municipal Services in South Africa, March 2002
• Restructuring, human rights and water access to vulnerable groups, December 2001
• Cities, social movements and scale-politics in an era of 'gloabalisation', September 2001
• A public sector alternative: SAMWU's efforts, August 2001
• Report-back on the "Blue Planet" conference in Vancouver, July 2001
• Governance and service delivery in Eastern and Southern Africa: Issues for debate, directions for research, September 2000.
• Comments on the Unicity Commission's Discussion Document, September 2000.
• Survey of Municipal Workers in The Cape Metropolitan Area, May 2000.

BOLETINES DEL MSP

• No 5: October 2006
• No 4: February 2004
• No 3: April 2002
• No 2: April 2001
• No 1: September 2000

ARTICULOS DE DIARIO

• The Cholera Aftermath, Mail and Guardian, July 2006
• Improvements but still challenges regarding cholera, study finds,  BuaNews , 13 July 2006.
• Cholera still a threat to KZN communities, SAPA, 13 July 2006.
• Cholera continues to plague poor areas: study, The Independent, 12 July 2006.
• Only the tip of the tap, Mail & Guardian , 23 September 2005.
• Water quality a national crisis, Mail & Guardian , 23 September 2005.
• No answers from Mosselbay officials, IMC-CT , 11 March 2005.
• Boreholes bleed our country of a resource that belongs to all, Cape Times , 11 January 2005.
• City's electricity system in for a shock, Cape Argus , 11 January 2005. 
• Keeping the taps open, Mail&Guardian, 25 June 2004.
• The 'new left' has provided space for different groups affected by neo-liberalism, Mail&Guardian, 25 June 2004.
• Fact, fiction and the new left, Mail&Guardian, 11 June 2004.
• Struggling to provide safe drinking water to the poor, CBC, 31 March 2004.
• Democracy or Development: Which Comes First?, International Development and Environment Article Service, 9 February 2004.
• Letter re: Johannesburg Water advertisement,  Mail & Guardian,  12-18 September 2003.
• Working class 'undermined',  Mail & Guardian, 22 August 2003.
• Kasrils should welcome a free and fair debate,  Sunday Independent, 06 July 2003.
• Interview with Trevor Ngwane: Sparks in the township, New Left Review, July-August 2003.
• Can there be a guaranteed free minimum?, Hydroplus, July/August 2003.
• South Africa heated debate on water cut off statistics Source Weekly July 2003
• Letter to the editor: Researchers speak out at their peril, Sunday Independent, 29 June 2003.
• From myth to reality in the great water debate, Sunday Independent, 29 June 2003.
• Excerpt from One No, Many Yeses, The Ecologist, 22 June 2003.
• Letter to the editor: Putting pipes in the ground just first step, Sunday Independent, 22 June 2003.
• Shooting the messenger, Sunday Independent, 22 June 2003.
• Attack the problem not the data, Sunday Independent, 15 June 2003.
• Report on water cut-off a case of sour grapes among US populists, Sunday Independent, 8 June 2003.
• Water tap often shut to South Africa poor, New York Times, 29 May 2003.
• More carrot, less stick, Mail & Guardian, 26 May 2003.
• Whose hand on the tap? Water privatization in South Africa, CBC Radio, 9 February 2003.
• Two Trevors go to the Forums: Soweto embraced by Brazil -- Pretoria shunned in Switzerland, The Sowetan, 7 February 2003.
• Cholera and the age of the water barons, The Center for Public Integrity, 3 February 2003.
• South Africa's driest season, Mother Jones Magazine, December 2002.
• Give us facts, not rhetoric, Mail & Guardian, 18 October 2002.