Privatization (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms people's relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world. This groundbreaking collection provides the first systematic analysis of neo-liberal privatization. Rich case studies of privatization in the making reveal both the pivotal role that privatization plays in neoliberalism and new opportunities for challenging neo-liberal hegemony. * Rich case studies linked to broader questions on neoliberalism * Illustrates the importance of property relation and the complexities existing in the meaning and practice of property * Extends current geographical scholarship on neoliberalism -including neoliberalism and nature * Each essay touches on the disciplinary, regulatory dimensions of privatization * Highlights the importance of privatization, both broadly and specifically

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444306767
• Artikelnr.: 38310103

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 by Dispossession,
Commodification and Life Patents in Canada (Scott Prudham).
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 Neoliberal Governance (Julie
Guthman).
4. Property, Markets, and Dispossession: The Western Alaska Community
Development Quota as Neoliberalism, Social Justice, Both, and Neither
(Becky Mansfield).
5. Discovering Price in All the Wrong Places: The Work of Commodity
Definition and Price under Neoliberal Environmental Policy (Morgan
Robertson).
6. The Difference that Class Makes: Neoliberalization and Non-Capitalism in
the Fishing Industry of New England (Kevin St Martin).
7. Land Reform in the Time of Neoliberalism: A Many-Splendored Thing (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