Privatization : property and the remaking of nature-society relations / edited by Becky Mansfield.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The fictions of autonomous invention : accumulation by dispossession commodification and life patents in Canada / Scott Prudham -- The "commons" versus the "commodity" : alter-globalization, anti-privatization, and the human right to water in the global south / Karen Bakker -- The Polanyian way? Voluntary food labels as neoliberal governance / Julie Guthman -- Property, markets, and dispossession : the Western Alaska community development quota as neoliberalism, social justice, both, and neither / Becky Mansfield -- Discovering price in all the wrong places : the work of commodity definition and price under neoliberal environmental policy / Morgan Robertson -- The difference that class makes : neoliberalization and non-capitalism in the fishing industry of New England / Kevin St. Martin -- Land reform in the time of neoliberalism : a many-splendored thing / Wendy Wolford.

Contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms people's relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world. This book examines this topic.

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