Privatization Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations [Paperback]

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

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 Neoliberl'