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The global idea of 'the commons' / edited by Donald M. Nonini.

Title
The global idea of 'the commons' / edited by Donald M. Nonini.
Publication
New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors
Nonini, Donald Macon.
Description
vi, 138 p.; 18 cm.
Summary
"The essays in this forum assess strategically the situations of selected commons in a variety of diagnostic sites where they exist, the ways in which they are being transformed by the incursions of capital and state, and the ways in which they are becoming the locus of struggle for those who depend on them to survive."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Critical interventions: a forum for social analysis ; v. 10
Uniform Title
Critical interventions 10.
Subject
  • Commons
  • Global commons
  • Natural resources, Communal > Management
  • Human ecology
  • Environmental protection > International cooperation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : the global idea of 'the commons' / Donald M. Nonini -- Collectivism, universalism, and struggles over common property resources in the 'new Europe' / John Pickles -- 'The commons' in an Amazonian context / Flora Lu -- The genetic commons : resisting the neo-liberal enclosure of life / Stephen B. Scharper and Hilary Cunningham -- Reflections on intellectual commons / Donald M. Nonini -- Reinventing the Appalachian commons / Jefferson C. Boyer -- Conceiving the health commons : operationalizing a 'right' to health / Sandy Smith-Nonini.
ISBN
  • 9781845454852 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1845454855 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2007039219
OCLC
156834460
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library