The cultural commons of hope

ISBN-13: 9783836429740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 276 str.

Professor James Arvanitakis (University of Western Sydney Au

Opis

Our world is confronted by a number of crises - global warming, entrenchedpoverty and military conflicts such as the war on terror. While these crisesappear disconnected, this study examines how they are both interrelated anddominate our experiences of modernity. As these crises are often aggravatedby the very solutions proposed to solve them, this experience of modernitycan be described as pathological. Pathological modernity is driven by afrontier disposition that encloses and commodifies non-commercial spaces(or commons), and creates a crisis of scarcity. This commodification beganwith the natural world, moved through societal institutions and the humanbody, and is now commodifying the final frontier of the human experience:enclosing our hopes, trust and sense of safety.Despite its dominance, this logic of enclosure is being challenged by resistancemovements which are producing alternative visions of society based onhope, trust and a sense of abundance.This book will appeal to those attempting to understand why many oftodays challenges are so entrenched, as well as those involved in environmentaland social justice struggles both locally and internationally.