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Releasing the Commons: Rethinking the futures of the commons book cover

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Releasing the Commons Rethinking the futures of the commons

Edited By Ash Amin, Philip Howell Copyright 2016
238 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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.... Read more

1. Thinking the Commons  Ash Amin & Philip Howell

2.  The Commons and Offshore Worlds John Urry

3.  Politics in Common in the Digital Age Natalie Fenton

4. Commons Feeling in Animal Welfare and Online Libertarian Activism Adam Reed

5. The Liminal Paracommons of Future Natural Resource Efficiency Gains Bruce Lankford

6. The Right to Not be Excluded: Common Property and the Struggle to Stay Put Nick Blomley

7.  International Humanitarian Law and the Possibility of the Commons Alex Jeffrey

8. The Shrinking Commons and Uneven Geographies of Development Sarah A. Radcliffe

9. The Urban Metabolic Commons: Rights, Civil Society, and Subaltern Struggle Colin McFarlane

10. Inroads into Altruism  Marilyn Strathern

11. Revisiting a Bodily Commons: Enclosures and Openings in the Bioeconomy Maria Fannin

12. Commoning as a Postcapitalist Politics J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Stephen Healy

 

Biography

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.

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