During the last three decades, corporations allied with scientists
and universities, national and regional governments, and
international financial institutions have, through a variety of
mechanisms associated with neo-liberal globalization, acted to
dispossess large proportions of the world's population of their
commons' resources and enclose them for profit making. In response,
throughout the global South and in the cities of the global North,
large numbers of people have formed movements to defend the commons
in all their variety. The idea of the commons has thus emerged as a
global idea, and commons have emerged as sites of conflict around
the world. The essays in this forum assess strategically the
situations of selected commons in a variety of diagnostic sites
where they exist, the ways in which they are being transformed by
the incursions of capital and state, and the ways in which they are
becoming the locus of struggle for those who depend on them to
survive.
Donald M. Nonini is Professor of Anthropology and Director of
Graduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has published numerous books,
articles, and book chapters on Southeast Asian state formation, the
cultural politics of Chinese transnationalism in and from Southeast
Asia, and local politics in the southern United States. Recent
articles include "Diasporas and Globalization" (2005) and
"Indonesia Seen by Its Outside Insiders: Its Chinese Alters in
Transnational Space" (2006). His latest book, co-written with
Dorothy Holland et al., is "Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism,
Public Interests and Private Politics" (2007).
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