Privatizing nature: political struggles for the global commons / edited by Michael Goldman
Goldman, Michael [editor].
Tipo de material: Libro impreso(a) Editor: New Brunswich, New Jersey, United States: Rutgers University Press, 1998Descripción: xiv, 257 páginas ; 21 centímetros.ISBN: 0813525543; 9780813525549.Tema(s): Protección del medio ambiente | Cambio medioambiental global | Calidad ambiental | Cooperación internacional | Desarrollo sostenibleClasificación: 363.70526 / P7 Nota de bibliografía: Incluye bibliografía: páginas 229-247 e índice: páginas 248-257 Número de sistema: 58696Tipo de ítem | Biblioteca actual | Colección | Signatura | Estado | Fecha de vencimiento | Código de barras |
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Incluye bibliografía: páginas 229-247 e índice: páginas 248-257
Between NAFTA and Zapata: responses to restructuring the commons in Chiapas and Oaxaca, México Lynn Stephen páginas 76-101
The concept of "commons" has traditionally served as a device for controlling land, forests, rivers, and natural resources. Now, as we approach the twenty-first century, new forms of enclosures and notions of private property are emerging-from water rights, biodiversity, and "gene pools" of plants and humans to the demands of multinational corporations for free access to more land for investment and exploitation. The power of the commons is still flourishing and the "global commons" now provides the central metaphor for ecological politics. The contributors to Privatizing Nature examine the reasons behind the political resurgence of the commons, and the widespread struggle to transform existing nature-society relations into ones that are non-exploitative, socially just, and ecologically healthy. Tackling the key themes-such as the convergence of environment and social justice, global commodities, and the role of social movements-the authors draw on examples form the Amazon, Mexico, Cameroon, India, and the industrialized North. They argue that, although environmental problems like the Chernobyl disaster suggest that the world is indeed shrinking, the fate of the global commons should not be left to a new powerful class of global problem-solvers at the World Bank, IMF, NAFTA, and WTO. By contrast, the authors highlight the political expertise of social movements fighting dominant strategies to "privatize nature. eng