Not for Sale : Decommodifying Public Life / Gordon Laxer, Dennis Soron.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laxer, Gordon, editor.

Soron, Dennis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Municipal services--Economic aspects.

Municipal services.

Privatization.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Not for Sale examines key dimensions of the current assault against communal resources by relentless commodification and privatization. Gordon Laxer and Dennis Soron include chapters by social scientists who explore ways in which progressive projects of "reclaiming" the commons involve confronting the capitalist drive to commodify all aspects of existence, including human body parts, water, labour, knowledge, and even the air we breathe. The book argues that crucial areas of social and natural life should not be treated as commodities regulated by undemocratic markets. Not for Sale discusses the alternatives presented by local, national, and international struggles to decommodify and democratize as many spheres of life as possible.

Contents:

pt. 1. Framing the issues. Thematic introduction: decommodification, democracy, and the battle for the commons / Dennis Soron & Gordon Laxer

The commodity status of labour: the secret of commodified life / David McNally

On the ownership of nature / Birgit Müller

Cosmopolitan elites versus nationally-focused citizens

cycles of decommodification struggles / Gordon Laxer. pt. 2. Dynamics of commodification. The general agreement on trade in services

-politics by another means / Ellen Gould

Frontiers of the market: commodifying human body parts / Trevor W. Harrison

A new gender (dis)order?

neoliberal restructuring in Australia / Ray Broomhill & Rhonda Sharp

Water is life! The debate over private sector participation in water supply / Karen Bakker. pt. 3. Democratic struggles for decommodification. Commodification and decommodification in Mexico under NAFTA / Teresa Gutierrez-Haces

Forging new democracies: indigenous struggles for autonomy / Gerardo Otero & Heidi Jugenitz

In defence of the environmental state: NGO strategies to resist the commodification of nature / Anita Krajnc

From the knowledge economy to the knowledge commons: resisting the commodification of knowledge / Jennifer Sumner

Decommodifying daily life: the politics of overconsumption / Dennis Soron.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9781442603172

1442603178

OCLC:

923769039