Chapter
Part One. Engaging Communities and Workers
2 | Work of the Ants: Labour and Community Reinventing Public Water in Colombia
Privatization and the Need for Labour–Community Alliances
Struggles for Alternatives to Privatization in Colombia
Community Water Management: The Case of La Sirena
History of the Labour–Community Alliance
Joint Research Planning, Field Visits and Focus Groups
3 | Old Trash, New Ideas: Public Waste Management and Informal Reclaimers
Three Innovative Approaches
Democratizing and Expanding the Public Sphere
4 | Ships Passing in the Dark? Reigniting Labour–Community Alliances for Public Services in South Africa
The Apartheid Years: Repression, Resistance and Contradiction
Ending Apartheid: What Kind of Alliances, What Kind of Power?
Whither Post-Apartheid Labour–Community Alliances?
Contemporary Sources of Weakness and Disconnection
New Spaces, New Possibilities
5 | Public Health for Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala: Monitoring From the Bottom Up
Making Health Public for All
Understanding Power and Power Relations
Involving Citizens Through Participatory Action-Research
Lessons Learned and Sustainability
Part Two. Recognizing Quasi-Public Actors
6 | Electrified Publics and Informal Settlements in Urban India
Electricity and The Urban Poor
The Ujala Yojana Slum Electrification Project
Building Upon Established Trust
Assessment of Ability and Willingness to Pay
Establishing a Legal Framework for Slum Electrification
Strengthening Women’s Entitlements to Land and Housing
Sensitization of Other Stakeholders
7 | Principles and Pitfalls: Searching for Public in ‘Community-Led Total Sanitation’
Letting Community Back In
A Brief Description of CLTS
The Publicness of Community
8 | Public Faith: Christian and Muslim Health Services in Uganda
Overview of Uganda’s Health System
Faith-Based Health Services
FBO Health Services as a Public Service?
Part Three. Promoting Equity and Democratic Control
9 | Gender Equity, Citizenship and Public Water in Bangladesh
On Water’s Edge: The Lived Experiences in Korail Slum
Korail Water Struggles: Gender and Class Matter
The Importance of Being Public
Citizenship, Legality and Water Justice
10 | Struggling for Public, Reclaiming Citizenship: Everyday Practices of Access to Water in Medellín, Colombia
The Public/Private Nature of EPM
Learning From ‘High-Risk Zones’
11 | Public Renewable Energy in Africa: The Potential for Democratic Electrification
Why Renewable Energy in Africa?
Ownership and Control of Renewable Energy
A Public Role: Large, Small, Limitations?
Part Four. Financing Public Services
12 | (Re)making Public Banks: The Case of Turkey
Public Banks in Historical Context
Competing Views on Bank Ownership in Market Economies
A History of Public Banks in Turkey
Neoliberal Restructuring of Turkey’s Public Banks
Turkey’s Public Banks Today
The Social Contradictions of Turkey’s Public Banks
The Struggle for Public Banking Alternatives
13 | Pragmatic Publics in the Heartland of Capitalism: Local Services in the United States
14 | Post-Neoliberalism in Bolivia? Water Sector Reforms Under Evo Morales
Water Reforms Under Morales
Financing Water and Sanitation: ‘Productive’ Versus ‘Social’ Investment
15 | Conclusion: Building a Global Pro-Public Movement
It’s Not Easy Making Public
Making Public in a Privatized World
：The Struggle for Essential Services
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