The Global Idea of ‘The Commons’ / / ed. by Donald M. Nonini.

During the last three decades, corporations allied with scientists and universities, national and regional governments, and international financial institutions have, through a variety of mechanisms associated with neo-liberal globalization, acted to dispossess large proportions of the world’s popul...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (142 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Global Idea of ‘the Commons’
  • Collectivism, Universalism, and Struggles over Common Property Resources in the ‘New Europe’
  • ‘The Commons’ in an Amazonian Context
  • The Genetic Commons: Resisting the Neo-liberal Enclosure of Life Stephen B. Scharper and Hilary Cunningham
  • Reflections on Intellectual Commons
  • Reinventing the Appalachian Commons
  • Conceiving the Health Commons: Operationalizing a ‘Right’ to Health
  • Notes on Contributors