Releasing the Commons - Rethinking the futures of the commons (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Release date:	May 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Ash Amin • Philip Howell
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	226
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-94234-9
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	1-138-94234-0
Barcode:	9781138942349

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