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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 and economic restructuring. Drawing on post-structuralist theory, the analysis presented here steps outside the parameters of this neat, straightforward explanation. It problematises the ‘hard facts’ upon which the decision was apparently made, presenting instead an account in which facts can be political constructions shaped by normative assumptions and political strategies. A politics of inevitability in 1990s Berlin is revealed; one characterised by depoliticisation, expert-dominated policy processes and centred upon the perceived necessities of urban governance in the global economy. It is an account in which global and local dynamics mix: where the interplay between the general and the specific, between neoliberalism and politicking, and between globalisation and local actors characterise the discussion.   This book is valuable reading for researchers in the fields of water politics, urban studies, policy studies and those with a general interest in post-structuralist theory.

Berlin (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1990-. --- Berliner Wasser-Betriebe. --- Water utilities -- Privatization -- Germany. --- Water utilities --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Science - General --- Privatization --- Denationalization --- Privatisation --- Political science. --- Environmental management. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Political Science. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Contracting out --- Corporatization --- Government ownership --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Berlin (Germany) --- Politics and government --- BWB --- Berliner Wasserbetriebe --- Berliner Wasserwerke --- Berliner Entwässerungswerke --- Wasserversorgung und Abwasserbehandlung Berlin