The Global Idea of "The Commons"

by Nonini, Donald M.

• ISBN13: 9781845454852
• ISBN10: 1845454855
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Bringing together authors with different historical, cultural, regional and theoretical backgrounds, this volume engages in debates that address new questions arising from recent developments, such as whether there is a need to reject or uphold the notion of post-socialism as both a necessary and valid concept ignoring changes and differences across both time and space. The authors' firsthand ethnographies from their own countries belie such a simplistic notion, revealing, as they do, the cultural, social, and historical diversity of countries of Central and Southeastern Europe.

Table of Contents

Introduction : the global idea of 'the commons'
Collectivism, universalism, and struggles over common property resources in the 'new Europe'	p. 26
'The commons' in an amazonian context	p. 41
The genetic commons : resisting the neo-liberal enclosure of life	p. 53
Reflections on intellectual commons	p. 66
Reinventing the Appalachian commons	p. 89
Conceiving the health commons : operationalizing a 'right' to health	p. 115
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