Not for Sale : : Decommodifying Public Life / / ed. by Gordon Laxer, Dennis Soron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bakker, Karen,; Broomhill, Ray,; Gould, Ellen,; Gutiérrez-Haces, Teresa,; Harrison, Trevor W.,; Jugenitz, Heidi,; Krajnc, Anita,; Laxer, Gordon,; McNally, David,; Müller, Birgit,; Otero, Gerardo,; Sharp, Rhonda,; Soron, Dennis,; Sumner, Jennifer,
• HerausgeberIn: Laxer, Gordon,; Soron, Dennis,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Not for Sale examines key dimensions of the current assault against communal resources by relentless commodification and privatization. Gordon Laxer and Dennis Soron include chapters by social scientists who explore ways in which progressive projects of "reclaiming" the commons involve confronting the capitalist drive to commodify all aspects of existence, including human body parts, water, labour, knowledge, and even the air we breathe. The book argues that crucial areas of social and natural life should not be treated as commodities regulated by undemocratic markets. Not for Sale discusses the alternatives presented by local, national, and international struggles to decommodify and democratize as many spheres of life as possible.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: Framing the Issues -- One. Thematic Introduction: Decommodification, Democracy, and the Battle for the Commons -- Two. The Commodity Status of Labour: The Secret of Commodified Life -- Three. On the Ownership of Nature -- Four. Cosmopolitan Elites Versus Nationally-focused Citizens- Cycles of Decommodification Struggles -- Part Two: Dynamics of Commodification -- Five. The General Agreement on Trade in Services-Politics by Another Means -- Six. Frontiers of the Market: Commodifying Human Body Parts -- Seven. A New Gender (Dis)order?-Neoliberal Restructuring in Australia -- Eight. Water is Life! The Debate over Private Sector Participation in Water Supply -- Part Three: Democratic Struggles for Decommodification -- Nine. Commodification and Decommodification in Mexico under NAFTA -- Ten. Forging New Democracies: Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy -- Eleven. In Defence of the Environmental State: NGO Strategies to Resist the Commodification of Nature -- Twelve. From the Knowledge Economy to the Knowledge Commons: Resisting the Commodification of Knowledge -- Thirteen. Decommodifying Daily Life: The Politics of Overconsumption -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index