...Ugo Mattei This essay introduces the Italian commons social movement—a diverse coalition of scholars, jurists, politicians, and activists—central to the success of the 2011 water referendum. This essay attempts to provide the context for the struggles to protect commons goods in Italy, as well...

...Tommaso Fattori When the economic and financial storm broke, the Italian government asked the collectivity to come together to defend capital and the international financial powers by satisfying their thirst for privatization. The government plan was to sell off the country’s common patrimony...

... critical aspects of the proposed HSR are explored, for going beyond that, pointing out the aspects dealing with the social implications of the anti-HSR (NOTAV in Italian) movement, the leading one in the Commons struggle today in Italy. A brief history of the NOTAV movement is reported. The HSR project...

...Saki Bailey; Maria Edgarda Marcucci This essay explores the legal and political dimensions of the occupation of the Teatro Valle in Rome and the transformation of the theater into a common goods foundation. The theater workers, acting together as a social movement for the protection of cultural...

... that the old issues that composed the problematic of dual power in the Latin America of the seventies are transposed into the present in the guise of the question regarding the commons and the state. To stage this, the article traces a brief history of the transformation of the question, from René Zavaleta...

... the current phase of capital accumulation in Latin America, focusing on critical concepts such as neoextractivism and bad development. It presents a particular reading of environmental conflict, linked to processes of dispossession, enclosure of the common, and the deepening of extractivism by Latin American...

... of the commons to achieve autonomy from capital, especially and initially in matters of social reproduction (food, health, care, housing, knowledge, and education). © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References Barbagallo Camille Federici Silvia , eds. 2012 . “ ‘Care Work’ and the Commons...

... centuries, communology challenges orthodoxy. This article presents communology’s evolving terminology, historical perspective, and intersections with law, politics, technology, and social sciences. The commons are subversive to the status quo; they do not assume—as given—sovereignty, statehood, boundaries...

...Alfonso Giuliani; Carlo Vercellone The vitality of the new field of study on the commons crosses the entire field of social sciences, and it is analyzed from very different perspectives. On the one side, the Ostromian new Institutional economics uses the term commons as plural and seeks to give...

...Silvia Federici The Common/s as a principle of social organization is at the center of radical political debates as an alternative to the logic of capital and the market. In her essay Silvia Federici presents a feminist perspective on the politics of the commons, with special attention...

...Kalpana Kannabiran Extrapolating from the ideas of Elinor Ostrom and scholars of the commons, the conceptualization of the Constitution as a commons opens the Constitution out to radical, insurgent readings that redefine belonging and ownership—it is no longer the property of state legislatures...

...Francesco Brancaccio This essay will show what are some of the qualifying characteristics of the theoretical construction of the law of the common. It will be divided into two parts. In the first part, I will review some of the main structural modifications that affected modern law with the advent...

...William H. Glasson Copyright © 1909 by Duke University Press 1909 Volume VIII. JULY, 1909. Number 3. The South Atlantic Quarterly. Working for the Common Good: Rural and City Improvement in the South By William H. Glasson Professor of Economics in Trinity College One who is interested...

...Jon Beasley-Murray 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Jon Beasley-Murray The Common Enemy: Tyrants and Pirates Written in 1950, Carl Schmitt’s foreword to The Nomos of the Earth ends with the statement...

...William Haver Throughout all of Michel Foucault’s work there is an uncompromising, albeit tacit, refusal to posit “society” as an object of knowledge and control. Rather, there emerges in various texts a thought of the common as the object of sense rather than of cognition. This essay attempts...

...James Martel In this essay, I engage with Jodi Dean’s idea from The Communist Horizon (2012) that “division is common; we must seize it.” I argue that this is a critical insight that helps us think both about the kinds of political subjectivity that we find in Marxist philosophy as well...

...Imre Szeman Imre Szeman Entrepreneurship as the New Common Sense We have not emerged from the “iron cage” of the capitalist economy to which Weber referred. Rather, in some respects, it would have to be said...

...Miriam Tola This essay discusses Paolo Virno's anchoring of the common in the linguistic faculties of Homo sapiens . It explores how Virno's figure of the anthropos intersects the hegemonic model of Man that largely underwrites the Anthropocene concept. In particular, it suggests that Virno engages...

... Debt and Occupy Wall Street . 2012 . The Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual . New York : PM Press / Common Notions . Toyama Kentaro . 2011 . “ Lies, Hype, and Profit: The Truth about Microfinance .” Atlantic , January 28 . Toro Ibañez Graciela . 2010 . La pobreza, un gran...