Satoko Kishimoto

Satoko Kishimoto was an environmental activist and active in the youth environmental movement in Japan in the 1990s. She began working with TNI in 2003, at the time of 3rd World Water Forum held in Kyoto, Japan. She started the water justice project in TNI to seek Alternatives to Water Privatisation. She is the co-founder of the Reclaiming Public Water (RPW) Network which was created as a result of the book 'Reclaiming Public Water: Achievements, struggles and visions from around the world' in 2005. Lately she engages with joint research and advocacy on remunicipalisation in water sector and other public services. She edited the book Our Public Water Future: The global experience with remunicipalisation (2015) and Reclaiming Public Services: How cities and citizens are turning back privatisation (2017).

Latest work

Democratic and collective ownership of public goods and services Exploring public-community collaborations

Public Community Collaborations
Many cities and citizens have devised new ways to manage essentials. Public-community collaborations can unlock local knowledge and empower citizens by combining the city’s administrative and political power with the potential of its citizens. Order print copy
Report by

Luca Hopman

Satoko Kishimoto

Bertie Russell

Louisa Valentin
Publication date: 20 August 2021
Municipalist cities are key players in the corona crisis and the European Green Deal Municipalize Europe debate report #1

COVID-19
The second ‘Municipalize Europe’ conference was held on 5 November online, while two years ago we organised the first edition in the European parliament. In that interval, municipalism, a new political movement, has been growing in Europe and beyond. It is a new way of doing local politics putting social rights and citizen engagements at the center. Municipalize Europe is an attempt to look at European politics through a municipalist lens and to build pressure for change of the top-down European politics.
Article by

Satoko Kishimoto

Nada Baraka
Publication date: 23 November 2020
再公営化という選択世界の民営化の失敗から学ぶ

Democratic Public Services
本書は2017年に発行された「Reclaiming Public Services: How cities and citizens are turning back privatisation」の日本語版である。発行については山本太郎参議院議員の提案を受け、山本太郎事務所とトランスナショナル研究所とのコラボレーションで実現した。
Book by

Satoko Kishimoto

Olivier Petitjean
Publication date: 3 January 2019