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Releasing the Commons: Rethinking the futures of the commons

Releasing the Commons: Rethinking the futures of the commons

Amin, Ash
Howell, Philip

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Real EstateGeneral SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 1138546488
ISBN13: 9781138546486
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 12 2018
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a contest of force, a reconstitution, and a site of convening practices. It highlights new spaces of gathering opening up, such as the digital commons, and new practices of being in common, such as community economies and solidarity networks. The commons is seen as a contested domain of the collective and as a changing way of being in common, with the balance poised in the tensile play between political economy and social innovation. The book focuses on the possibility of recovering a future in which more can be held by the many, focusing on three concepts: nation and nature as a commons, publics and rights, and bodies, concerning the management of lives and livelihoods. Across these three passage points, the book finds evidence of a commons under attack but also defended in fragile though promising ways.

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