Mansfield

Privatization

Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations
Herausgeber: Mansfield, Becky

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking collection offers the first systematic analysis of neo-liberal privatization. Rich case studies reveal both the pivotal role that privatization plays in neoliberalism and innovative opportunities for challenging neo-liberal dominance. Leading scholars in the field shed new light on how property is created, justified, questioned and contested. Investigating the disciplinary, regulatory dimensions of privatization, the authors cover topics as diverse as land reform, fishing rights, and product labels. The anthology questions the dominant view of property as ownership by demonstrating various ways that it is practiced and the surprising outcomes contained in this diversity. Contemporary privatization is remaking nature-society as property. Privatization innovates and proliferates new forms of property such as patents for genetic information, markets for water, and tradable credits for polluting. In so doing, privatization transforms the relationships we have with ourselves, each other, and the natural world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9781405175500
• ISBN-10: 1405175508
• Artikelnr.: 22957960

Autorenporträt

Becky Mansfield is an Associate Professor of Geography at Ohio State University. She has published widely on the political and cultural economy of nature, with a particular focus on neo-liberalization of natural resources and the role of nature in economic processes. Mansfield is currently researching the making of bodies of scientific knowledge regarding the environmental effects of agro-food production.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Becky Mansfield.

1. The Fictions of Autonomous Invention: Accumulation byDispossession, Commodification and Life Patents in Canada (ScottPrudham).

2. The 'Commons' Versus the 'Commodity': Alter-globalization,Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South(Karen Bakker).

3. The Polanyian Way? Voluntary Food Labels as NeoliberalGovernance (Julie Guthman).

4. Property, Markets, and Dispossession: The Western AlaskaCommunity Development Quota as Neoliberalism, Social Justice, Both,and Neither (Becky Mansfield).

5. Discovering Price in All the Wrong Places: The Work ofCommodity Definition and Price under Neoliberal EnvironmentalPolicy (Morgan Robertson).

6. The Difference that Class Makes: Neoliberalization andNon-Capitalism in the Fishing Industry of New England (Kevin StMartin).

7. Land Reform in the Time of Neoliberalism: A Many-SplendoredThing (Wendy Wolford).

Index.

Rezensionen

?This collection is both complex and thought provoking. ? This bookoffers a much needed critical edge to exploring the contested spacecharacterized by the co-modification of nature and the remaking ofnature ? society relations as property.? (International Journalof Social Welfare , July 2009)"Examining the labyrinthine logics and strange confusions ofprivatization, the work in these pages is filled with fascinatingsurprises. Whether revealing the hidden political opportunities infood labeling, the ironic labor required in price 'discovery' forwetlands, or the many hidden non-capitalist practices of workingfishermen, this work is both exciting and useful. Mansfield andcompany point urgently to where future progressive activism mightfinally get some real traction."
-Paul Robbins, University of Arizona

"Theoretically rich, empirically challenging and politicallyengaging, this groundbreaking collection significantly advancesdebates about neoliberalism, privatisation and property. Rejectingeasy generalisations about changing nature-society relations, thebook brings together innovative scholars who highlight thecomplexity of contemporary developments without closing downpossibilities for more equitable futures. It will be essentialreading for anyone interested in political economy, politicalecology and environmental policy."
-Wendy Larner, University of Bristol