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  CAITLINSCHROERING

Research and writing

“Para o sociólogo, não existe neutralidade possível: o intelectual deve optar entre o compromisso com os exploradores ou com os explorados.”  (For the sociologist, there is no possible neutrality: the intellectual must choose between a commitment to the exploiters or to the exploited.)
--Florestan Fernandes
​"There is a political knowing that comes out of anger" -- Rachel Watkins


Book
Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing ​(2024). Manchester University Press. Available here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177865/

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

 
Schroering, Caitlin and Luiz Felipe Osorio. Forthcoming. "A privatização da água e a luta pelos bens comuns: resistência translocal e direito à água a partir da experiência de Pittsburgh, Pensilvânia, nos Estados   Unidos.” [“The privatization of water and the struggle for the recovery of the commons: translocal resistance and the right to water from the experience of Pittsburgh, United States.”] Revista   Direito e Práxis   [Journal of Law and Praxis]. 

Chie Togami, Caitlin Schroering, Marcela González Rivas, and Talor Musil. 2025. “Environmental Justice Victory? Waste Colonialism and the Afterlife of Lead Water Pipes.” Environmental Justice.
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Schroering, Caitlin. 2021. “Constructing Another World: Solidarity and the Right to Water.” Studies in Social Justice,15(1):102-128. https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v15i1.2435

Schroering, Caitlin and Suzanne Staggenborg. 2021. “Volunteer and Staff Participants in  Social Movements: A Comparison of Two Local Coalitions.” Social Movement Studies.  https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2021.1967127.

Rivas, Marcela González, and Caitlin Schroering. 2021. "Pittsburgh's Translocal Social Movement: A Case of the New Public Water." Utilities Policy, 71: 101230. 

Banerjee, Tarun and Caitlin Schroering. 2020.  “Responsible for Whom? The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Firm Vulnerability and Responsiveness to Social Movement Activism.” Sociological Focus,53:4, 337-358, DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2020.1823915 

Murphy, Michael and Caitlin Schroering. 2020. “Refiguring the Plantationocene: Racial Capitalism, World-Systems Analysis, and Global Socioecological Transformation.” Journal of World-Systems Research, 26(2), 400-415. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2020.983
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Schroering, Caitlin. 2019. "Resistance and Knowledge Production: Social Movements as Producers of Theory and Praxis."  Revista CS, 29, 73-102. https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i29.3181

Book Reviews

 
Schroering, Caitlin. 2024. Book Review:  Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social      
Movements and Agrarian Change by Marc Edelman.  Mobilization: An International Quarterly. 29(3): 419-420. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-29-3-413

Schroering, Caitlin. 2021. Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler. Capital & Class, 45(4):608-609. doi:10.1177/03098168211048569c

Schroering, Caitlin. 2018. Book Review: Green Gentrification: Urban Sustainability and the Struggle for Environmental Justice, Society & Natural Resources, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1517915

Professional and Popular Writing Selections

2025      
Schroering, Caitlin. “‘Water For Life, Not For Death’: Forging a Liberatory Politics Against the Violence of  Imperialism.” Berliner Gazette.  Available: 
https://berlinergazette.de/water-for-life-not-for-death-prefigurative-politics-against-the-violence-of-imperialism/

Schroering, Caitlin. “A Água Baixou, Mas A Enchente Não Passou” (“The Water Receded, But The Flood  Didn’t Pass”). MAB. https://mab.org.br/2025/07/03/a-agua-baixou-mas-a-enchente-nao-passou/
             
 Schroering, Caitlin. "A privatização da água e a luta pela recuperação   dos bens comuns: resistência translocal e    o direito à água" [“The privatization of water and the struggle to reclaim the commons: translocal resistance and the right to water]. In Energia e Sociedade No Capitalismo Contemporâneo [Energy and Society in Contemporary Capitalism], pp. 163-208. Edited by Carlos Vainer, Daiane Carlos Höhn, Dalila Alves Calisto, Flávia Braga Vieira, and Luiz Alencar Dalla Costa. São Paulo, SP: Expressão Popular.
 
2024     
Schroering, Caitlin. “Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing.” Blog post for Progress in Political Economy. Available: https://www.ppesydney.net/global-solidarities-against-water-grabbing/
 
2023     
Schroering, Caitlin, Dalila Alves Calisto, Tamires Almeida Cruz de Paula, and Gabriel A. Gonçalves. “Das considerações”: o fazer-se da escala e da consciência da luta socioambiental. Três experiências das expressões dos    conflitos envolvendo o direito à água, Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens (MAB).” [[“Considerations”: the making of the scale and awareness of the socio-environmental struggle. Three experiences of expressions of conflicts over the right to water, Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB)”] In Educação Cidadã: Experiência de Formação Profissional e Articulação Intersetorial na Cidade de São Paulo [Citizen Education: Experience of Professional Training and Intersectoral Coordination in the City of São Paulo], pp. 183-200. Edited by Cláudia Graziano Paes de Barros  and Valter de Almeida Costa. Campinas, SP: Pontes Editores.
 
 Guy, M., Schroering, C., Bain, D., Elliott, E., González Rivas, M., Maseru, N., Smith, J., Donnovan, D., Musil, T., Roberts, A., Naccarati-Chapkis, M., Hartwell, M., and Chaney, C. 2023. Measuring Up: Grading drinking water quality, affordability, and transparency practices in Allegheny County Water Systems. Available: https://dscholarship.pitt.edu/45129/4/Water%20Report%20June%202023%20Full.pdf
 
2022      
Schroering, Caitlin.  “The Drop Colcom Campaign.” Sierra Club Pennsylvania. Available:
https://www.sierraclub.org/pennsylvania/blog/2022/10/drop-colcom-campaign
 
 Schroering, Caitlin. “Pedagogies of Resistance: Blurring the Boundaries of Activist-Teacher in the Classroom.”  NiCHE. https://niche-canada.org/2022/07/26/pedagogies-of-resistance-blurring-the-boundaries-of-activistteacher-in-the-classroom/?fbclid=IwAR2BQjkmgSAaO81z0AIdo6N4hqe48B7YHOZ9q8i1gTG_qoLnXn7Tx4z6ZE
 
 Schroering, Caitlin and Rob Robinson. “Reflexões sobre um dos piores crimes socioambientais do Brasil sob uma ótica internacional.” [“Reflections On One of the Worst Socioenvironmental Crimes in Brazil from an International Viewpoint”] MAB. https://mab.org.br/2022/01/28/reflexoes-sobre-um-dos-piores-crimessocioambientais-do-brasil-sob-uma-otica-internacional/
 
2021     
Schroering, Caitlin. “Academia, activism and Pittsburgh’s water: My scholarship cannot be neutral.” 
PublicSource. https://www.publicsource.org/academic-activist-pitt-pwsa-lead-
water/?fbclid=IwAR08wm43s2QbsbBXlEXjdGfePh4GPMG9Nh56yPxx6RGI9zVpT-ZwwSLG68I
 
 Schroering, Caitlin and Letícia Oliveira. “Shared Experiences Of Dam Failures And Blackouts In Brazil And The United States.” MAB.  https://mab.org.br/2021/07/14/shared-experiences-of-dam-failures-andblackouts-in-brazil-and-the-united-states/
 
 Schroering, Caitlin. “Inside the Struggle for Water Sovereignty in Brazil.” ROAR Magazine/Journal of Resistance
Studies. https://roarmag.org/essays/brazil-mab-water-sovereignty/
 
2020     
 Schroering, Caitlin. “À Beira Do Colapso: A Situação Das Barragens Nos Estados Unidos.” [“On the Verge of Collapse: The Situation of Dams in the United States.”] MAB. https://mab.org.br/2020/06/08/a-beira-docolapso-a-situacao-das-barragens-nos-estados-unidos/
 
 Schroering, Caitlin. "A Year After Brazil Dam Collapse, Communities Still Calling for Accountability." Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/a-year-after-brazil-dam-collapse-communities-still-calling-foraccountability/
 
2019      
Schroering, Caitlin. Water is a Human Right! Grassroots Resistance to Corporate Power. Journal of World-Systems
Research, 25(1), 28-34. doi:https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2019.899
 
  Schroering, Caitlin. “Brazil Dam Collapse is a Human Rights Disaster and Crime.” Truthout. Available from: https://truthout.org/articles/brazil-dam-collapse-is-a-human-rights-disaster-and-crime/  
 
2018     
Smith, Jackie and Caitlin Schroering. “Global Peasant Declaration Represents Huge Advance for Human Rights.” Common Dreams. Available from: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/12/18/globalpeasant-declaration-represents-huge-advance-human-rights
 


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