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Nature for sale : the commons versus commodities /
Traces the erosion of the commons from the Industrial Revolution to today's neo-liberalism, arguing that a new commons is needed today.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword by Vandana Shiva; Introduction to the Italian edition: Will the commons save the world?; Introduction to the English edition: The enclosure of nature and the social movements; The escalation of nature's consumption; Neoliberal economics and the ecology of the commons; Social and ecological movements; Case-studies from the South; Mobilisation in Europe and the Americas; 1. What are the commons?; A kaleidoscope of the commons; The commons in all their variety; Empedocles' four roots between local and global.
- Mother Nature and the ecosystem servicesThe tragedy of the commons; Ownership: Common/collective, public/state, private; The community, yesterday and today: A controversial concept; 2. The decline of the commons; The industrial revolution between the first and second primitive accumulation; Scientific reductionism and the 'death of nature'; The invisible hand and homo œconomicus; 3. The destruction of wealth through commodities; Premises and outcomes of the crisis: The winners and the losers; The new enclosures in the North and the South; Colonialism and neo-colonialism as enclosure policies.
- Colonialism in the clothing of 'development'Consensus through lies and homologation; 4. All power to the commons!; Financialisation: The cancer that is devouring the commons; The return to the commons: A proposal; The empowerment of the community; Real democracy, politics and political ecology; Afterword: The right to the future; The reinvention of the commons; Local communities beyond the market and the state; Politics: The Left and the Right today; Notes; Bibliography; Index.