Barbed Wire: Capitalism and the Enclosure of the Commons

ISBN-13: 9781138564374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 186 str.

Patrick Brantlinger

Opis

A call to transform the way we think about property, this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons, or land and other forms of property that had been viewed as communally owned. A study of corporate globalization and the continuation of empire after the era of political decolonization, it begins with the fencing of the West starting in the 1870s, and moves to examine recent phenomena such as urbanization, mass incarceration, financialization and the treatment of people as commodities in the context of the longue durée of land enclosures, empire, and capitalism.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Introduction 1. Modern Fencing  2. Urban Spaces 3. Caging People: From Schools to Prisons 4. Thinking Inside the Box 5. Corporations as Greed Machines 6. Globalization and Empire 7. Manufacturing Disposable People 8. The Real Tragedy of the Commons 9. What is to be Done? Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University, USA.