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1 online resource |
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Critical interventions: a forum for social analysis ; volume 10 |
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Critical interventions ; v. 10.
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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 -- Notes on contributors |
| Summary |
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 population of their commons' resources and enclose them for profit making. In response, throughout the global South and in the cities of the global North, large numbers of people have formed movements to defend the commons in all their variety. The idea of the commons has thus emerged as a global idea, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Commons.
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Global commons.
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Natural resources, Communal -- Management
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Human ecology.
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Environmental protection -- International cooperation.
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human ecology.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Commons.
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Environmental protection -- International cooperation.
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Global commons.
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Human ecology.
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Natural resources, Communal -- Management.
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Business & Economics.
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Real Estate, Housing & Land Use.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306562643 |
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9781306562645 |
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9781782384809 |
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1782384804 |
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