Robin de la Motte
Email: robin.delamotte@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Water Works: public participation, social capital and co-production in the (peri)urban water sector in Latin America.
Supervisors: Erik Swyngedouw and Diana Mitlin.
Research interests
Urban water systems – governance and sustainability, grassroots organizations and community development, civil society and development, participatory governance, co-production, social capital, urban political ecology.
Articles in Refereed Journals
de la Motte, Robin (2007), “A Tale of Two Cities: Public participation and sustainability in decision-making on water systems in two Polish cities”, Utilities Policy 15(2), pp134-142.
Hall, David; Sanz Mulas, Andres; Katko, Tapio; Lobina, Emanuele and de la Motte, Robin (2007), “Decision-making and participation: The Watertime results”, Utilities Policy 15(2), pp151-159.
Hall, David; Lobina, Emanuele; and de la Motte, Robin (2005), “Public resistance to privatisation in water and energy”, Development in Practice 15(3/4).
Nissan, Ephraim; Hall, David; Lobina, Emanuele and de la Motte, Robin (2004), “A formalism for a case study in the WaterTime project: the city water system in Grenoble, from privatization to remunicipalization”, Applied Artificial Intelligence 18(3/4).
Chapters in Edited Books
Hall, David; Lobina, Emanuele; and de la Motte, Robin (2006), “Public resistance to privatisation in water and energy”, in Eade, Deborah and Sayer, John (eds, 2006), Development and the Private Sector: Consuming Interests, Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, August 2006.
Hall, David; Lobina, Emanuele; and de la Motte, Robin (2006), “Public resistance to privatisation in water and energy”, in Chavez, Daniel (ed), Beyond the Market: The Future of Public Services, Amsterdam and London: Transnational Institute/PSIRU, April 2006.
Hall, David; Lobina, Emanuele; and de la Motte, Robin (2006), “Resistencia ciudadana a la privatización del agua y la electricidad”, in Chavez, Daniel (ed), Más allá del mercado: El futuro de los servicios públicos, Amsterdam and London: Transnational Institute/PSIRU, January 2006.
de la Motte, Robin (2005), chapters on Netherlands, Poland, and United Kingdom (except Scotland), in Juuti, Petri S. and Katko, Tapio S. (eds), Water, Time and European Cities: History matters for the Futures, Tampere University Press.
Research and Consultancy Reports (selected)
Hall, David and de la Motte, Robin (2004), Dogmatic Development: Privatisation and conditionalities in six countries, PSIRU report for War on Want, London: PSIRU, February 2004.
de la Motte, R., D.Hall and E.Lobina (2004). Testing the claims made for water and electricity privatisation. Briefing for ActionAid. London: PSIRU, November 2004.
Six WaterTime case studies (Gdansk, Lodz, Warsaw, Rotterdam, Cardiff, Leeds), three National Context Reports (Poland, Netherlands, UK), Watertime/PSIRU, 2004/5.
Previous employment
Research Fellow, Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich (2003 – 2005).
Recent Research Projects
2003-2005: WATERTIME. Framework V programme project, DG XII, European Commission (Total Project Funding c €1m; PSIRU participation: c €0.5m. Duration: 36 months (December 2002-December 2005).
Conference presentations
de la Motte, Robin (2008), “Creative destruction: neoliberalism, development and class war in Latin America”. Paper presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2008, 29 August 2008, London.
de la Motte, Robin (2006), “Public resistance to privatisation in water”, Launch of the TNI Public Services Yearbook 2005/6, World Social Forum, 26 January 2006, Caracas.
de la Motte, Robin (2005), “Decision aid, model and website”, Watertime Final Conference, 25 November 2005, Greenwich, London.
de la Motte, Robin (2004), “Dogmatic Development: Privatisation and conditionalities in six countries”, War on Want Annual Conference, 28 February 2004, London.