Yours, Mine, Ours, or Theirs? Accessing and Controlling Oil and Water

Are oil and water resources to be stewarded and shared or commodities to be bought and sold? Does any person, country, or community own oil and water resources? How do the concepts of ownership and stewardship affect access to oil and water? What questions are raised by the privatization of resources?
 
This public program—part of the Illinois Humanities Council's year-long statewide series: All-Consuming: Conversations on Oil and Water—explores ownership and stewardship of oil and water globally through the story of Venezuela's oil industry and locally through the documentary The Water Front, which examines water privatization as experienced by the African-American community of Highland Park, Michigan.
Panelists:

• Fernando Coronil, Ph.D. - Presidential Professor, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York
• Marian Kramer - National Co-Chair, National Welfare Rights Union (featured in The Water Front)
• Elizabeth Miller - Director, The Water Front
• Sabina L. Shaikh, Ph.D. - Lecturer, Public Policy and Program on Global Environment, University of Chicago Senior Research Economist, RCF Economic Consulting (moderator)
• Maureen D. Taylor - State Chair, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (featured in The Water Front)