
Releasing the Commons
Rethinking the futures of the commons
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-1-138-54648-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a contest of force, a reconstitution, and a site of convening practices. It highlights new spaces of gathering opening up, such as the digital commons, and new practices of being in common, such as community economies and solidarity networks. The commons is seen as a contested domain of the collective and as a changing way of being in common, with the balance poised in the tensile play between political economy and social innovation. The book focuses on the possibility of recovering a future in which more can be held by the many, focusing on three concepts: nation and nature as a commons, publics and rights, and bodies, concerning the management of lives and livelihoods. Across these three passage points, the book finds evidence of a commons under attack but also defended in fragile though promising ways.
With contributions from leading scholars, this thought provoking book will be of great interest to students and scholars in geography, environmental studies, politics, anthropology, and cultural studies.
With contributions from leading scholars, this thought provoking book will be of great interest to students and scholars in geography, environmental studies, politics, anthropology, and cultural studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
9 s/w Abbildungen, 9 s/w Zeichnungen, 1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
371 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-54648-6 (9781138546486)
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Persons
Ash Amin is Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Philip Howell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Philip Howell is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Content
1. Thinking the Commons
2. The Commons and Offshore Worlds
3. Politics in Common in the Digital Age
4. Commons Feeling in Animal Welfare and Online Libertarian Activism
5. The Liminal Paracommons of Future Natural Resource Efficiency Gains
6. The Right to Not be Excluded: Common Property and the Struggle to Stay Put
7. International Humanitarian Law and the Possibility of the Commons
8. The Shrinking Commons and Uneven Geographies of Development
9. The Urban Metabolic Commons: Rights, Civil Society, and Subaltern Struggle
10. Inroads into Altruism
11. Revisiting a Bodily Commons: Enclosures and Openings in the Bioeconomy
12. Commoning as a Postcapitalist Politics
2. The Commons and Offshore Worlds
3. Politics in Common in the Digital Age
4. Commons Feeling in Animal Welfare and Online Libertarian Activism
5. The Liminal Paracommons of Future Natural Resource Efficiency Gains
6. The Right to Not be Excluded: Common Property and the Struggle to Stay Put
7. International Humanitarian Law and the Possibility of the Commons
8. The Shrinking Commons and Uneven Geographies of Development
9. The Urban Metabolic Commons: Rights, Civil Society, and Subaltern Struggle
10. Inroads into Altruism
11. Revisiting a Bodily Commons: Enclosures and Openings in the Bioeconomy
12. Commoning as a Postcapitalist Politics