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.
Edited by:
Ash Amin,
Philip Howell
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9781138942349
ISBN 10: 1138942340
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 09 May 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
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A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
