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The commitment of several Catholic groups and individuals within the Italian mobilisation for public water has been interpreted as an original experience of Catholic bottom up presence in social movements in the broader context of a Catholic awakening and renovated activism in public affairs, particularly in the aftermaths of the June 2011 referenda. The article analyses Catholics' the role and contribution in the making of the Italian water movement, in terms of defining the contents, the identity and the practices of the mobilisation, by revisiting Edward Thompson's notion of moral economy. The thesis of the article is twofold. On one side the Italian water movement frame of "water as human right and commons" resonates Catholic Social Doctrine, facilitating the mobilisation of Catholic groups and contributing to highlight the moral and symbolic aspects of the contention. On the other side, Catholics' presence in the mobilisation has been mimetic and little influenced the movement's identity and repertoires of contention.

The article contributes to the debate on the commons as a political strategy to counter the privatisation of water services by focusing on the experience of the Italian water movement. It addresses the question: how has the notion of the commons – popularly associated with the Global South – been understood, adopted and translated into practice by social movements in a European country like Italy? We identify three different understandings of the commons coexisting within the Italian water movement – emphasising universality, locality and participation. We describe the political claims and the initiatives informed by these understandings, and the actors which promoted them. Our analysis underlines that the polysemy of the notion of the commons, its complementarity with the 'human right to water' and its overlapping with the idea of 'public' not only proved to be effective in the Italian case, but also posed challenges when it came to translate the notion of the commons into specific governance and management frameworks. The politics of the commons defines the space where these dynamics unfold: it is more articulated than a mere rhetorical reference to the commons, but less homogeneous and coherent than the idea of a 'commons movement'.

Nel contesto politico italiano, caratterizzato dalla personalizzazione della politica, dalle logiche di breve periodo, dalla sfiducia nelle istituzioni, da sentimenti di antipolitica, la mobilitazione per l'acqua bene comune – di cui la vittoria referendaria di giugno 2011 rappresenta il momento più eclatante – presenta chiari elementi di originalità. Senza inseguire leadership carismatiche, ignorato dall'establishment politico e mediatico, questo movimento ha saputo coinvolgere e tenere insieme una coalizione vasta e plurale, riferendosi a principi morali e diritti fondamentali, adottando un'ottica non solo locale ma anche globale, e portando avanti una battaglia paradigmatica per la democrazia e il bene comune. Il presente volume nasce dalla volontà di riflettere sugli elementi e le pratiche che hanno reso possibile questa esperienza e sul suo significato politico più ampio.

L'étude des stratégies de soins de santé ruraux permet d'appréhender le projet biopolitique du gouvernement éthiopien, qui mêle mobilisation politique et offre de services, mode de gouvernement hiérarchique et participation populaire. Cet article s'intéresse aux processus de subjectivation des « femmes soldats du développement » qui agissent à l'interface du gouvernement local et de la société, en examinant comment l'État développementaliste se déploie au quotidien en étant dilué, au double sens d'incarnation et d'adaptation suivant une pluralité de logiques et de dynamiques (sociales, politiques, religieuses).

This article explores how Ethiopian mainstream media portray the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), perhaps the most relevant materialisation of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)'s developmental state approach. Through critical discourse analysis of a sample of articles from private media outlets from 2013 to 2020, we map the plurality of narratives employed by the media to represent the GERD and the Nile river. We analyse how changes and continuities in these narratives are related to the process of state building in Ethiopia, and to the unfolding of political events in the Easter-Nile basin. We conclude by pointing at how the continuity in the narratives about the GERD resonate with state-building discourses and strategies under different political regimes.