Privatizing Nature

Political Struggles for the Global Commons
Herausgeber: Goldman, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

 The concept of "commons" has traditionally served as a device for controlling land, forests, rivers, and natural resources. Now, as we approach the twenty-first century, new forms of enclosures and notions of private property are emerging-from water rights, biodiversity, and "gene pools" of plants and humans to the demands of multinational corporations for free access to more land for investment and exploitation. The power of the commons is still flourishing and the "global commons" now provides the central metaphor for ecological politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 135mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780813525549
• ISBN-10: 0813525543
• Artikelnr.: 21471638

Autorenporträt

Goldman, Michael

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Political Resurgence of the Commons / Michael Goldman
Inventing the Commons: Theories and Practices of the Commons' Professional
/ Michael Goldman
Social Movements and the Remaking of the Commons in the Brazilian Amazon /
Antonio Carlos Diegues
Between NAFTA and Zapata: Responses to Restructuring the Commons in Chiapas
and Oaxaca, Mexico / Lynn Stephen
In Defence of the Commons: Forest Battles in Southern Cameroon /
Samuel-Alain Nguiffo
Nature as Community: The Convergence of Environment and Social Justice /
Giovanna DiChiro
Biodiversity: Of Local Commons and Global Commodities / Michael Flitner
Fairness, Social Capital and the Commons: The Societal Foundations of
Collective Action in the Himalaya / Sanjeev Prakash
Style and Scale: Two Sources of Institutional Inappropriateness / Michael
Thompson