A Politics of Inevitability The Privatisation of the Berlin Water Co
This book provides a detailed analysis of the controversial privatisation of the Berlin Water Company (BWB) in 1999. As with other cases of privatisation around the world, the city’s government argued there was no alternative in a context of public debts
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Ross Beveridge
A Politics of Inevitability The Privatisation of the Berlin Water Company, the Global City Discourse, and Governance in 1990s Berlin
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Dissertation Newcastle University, 2010
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Acknowledgements
I would first like to thank the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University for providing me with the PhD Studentship that made this book possible. Additionally, I am very grateful to the Postgraduate Directors, particularly Derek Bell, for further extending this financial assistance. My biggest debts at Newcastle are, however, to my supervisors, Tony Zito and Esteban Castro. I would like to thank Tony for his encouragement, wise words and occasional shoves in the right direction. His support over the last ten years has been invaluable. Esteban, I would like to thank for his generosity and openness, as well as his insightful, well-timed observations. I am grateful to both for the productive and good-natured discussions over the last few years. Going further back, I am extremely grateful to Ella Ritchie for providing me with a start in academia and encouraging me to do a PhD. I would also like to thank Simon Guy for all his help in the early stages and his more general support since then. At the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS) in Germany, I would like, first and foremost, to express my gratitude to the Director, Prof. Dr. Heiderose Kilper, for generously providing me with a ‘second home’ throughout the PhD. This institutional context, and the support of many individuals within it, was absolutely integral to the completion of the project. I am, in particular, grateful to Tim Moss. He has been a great source of advice and general assistance throughout. As has Matthias Naumann, who also helped me acclimatise to both Berlin and the IRS. I also thank Frank Hüesker, who was a huge help i
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