Capitalism and the Commons: Just Commons in the Era of Multiple Crises

ISBN-13: 9780367420024 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 200 str.

Andreas Exner; Sarah Kumnig; Stephan Hochleithner

Opis

Capitalism and the Commons focuses on land-based commons, the political and social perspectives they offer, how the commons are appropriated by capital and state, and how these appropriations are contested, and transformed by social initiatives and movements.

Spis treści

Part I: FUNDAMENTS  1. Expanding the Scope: The Commons Within and Beyond Capitalism in Crisis  2. Towards the Commons through the Gift  Part II: BOUNDARIES  3. Commoning Land Access: Collective Purchase and Squatting of Agricultural Lands in Germany and Austria  4. "We don’t eat flowers" –Spatial Empowerment and Commons in Peri-urban Agroecological Networks as Answer to Socio-ecological Conflicts in Colombia  5. Women’s Struggles for Land in Africa and the Reconstruction of the Commons  6. War and the Commons: Enclosures and Capitalist Mobilization of Spatial Configurations in Course of Armed Conflict –the Case of North Kivu, DRC.  Part III: OPENINGS  7. Urban Undercommons: Solidarities Before and Beyond the National Imaginary  8. Cracking Territorial Commons –the Gongyuji Movement in Seoul, South Korea  Part IV: PERSPECTIVES  9. Public-Common Partnerships, Autogestion, and the Right to the City.  10. South African Commoning, Cooperatives, and Eco-socialist Potentials in the Context of COVID-19  Part V: TRANSGRESSIONS  11. Liberating the Commons by Commoning Commons Research: The Enclosure of Reality and the Systematization of Experience  12. Disengaging Capitalism: A Polyphonic Conclusion