The Global Idea of ‘The Commons’ (eBook)

Donald M. Nonini is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has published numerous books, articles, and book chapters on Southeast Asian state formation, the cultural politics of Chinese transnationalism in and from Southeast Asia, and local politics in the southern United States. Recent articles include “Diasporas and Globalization” (2005) and “Indonesia Seen by Its Outside Insiders: Its Chinese Alters in Transnational Space” (2006).His latest book, co-written with Dorothy Holland et al., is Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics (2007).

Introduction: The Global Idea of ‘the Commons’
Donald M. Nonini

Chapter 1. Collectivism, Universalism, and Struggles over Common Property Resources in the ‘New Europe’
John Pickles

Chapter 2. ‘The Commons’ in an Amazonian Context
Flora Lu

Chapter 3. The Genetic Commons: Resisting the Neo-liberal Enclosure of Life
Stephen B. Scharper and Hilary Cunningham

Chapter 4. Reflections on Intellectual Commons
Donald M. Nonini

Chapter 5. Reinventing the Appalachian Commons
Jefferson C. Boyer

Chapter 6. Conceiving the Health Commons: Operationalizing a ‘Right’ to Health
Sandy Smith-Nonini

Notes on Contributors