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...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...

..., starting with water services and other local utilities, which would have been obliged to open to private shareholders. The Italian people, on the contrary, answered by coming together to defend the commons, voting en masse in June 2011 at the referendum called by the social movements against...

...Philip Alexander Bruce Copyright © 1916 by Duke University Press 1916 The Birds of My English Water Meadow Philip Alexander Bruce One of the most beautiful of the smaller rivers of England is the Mole, which, having broken through the chalk barrier of the North Downs, winds serpent-like about...

... these relationships, drivers came to understand that the companies were taking greater percentages of the fares. “That was a real water cooler moment.” The Facebook advertising campaign helped bring together an organizing committee of 12 drivers who met weekly at a Los Angeles union office (Dolber 2019...

...Ashbel G. Brice Blue Angels and Whales: A Record of Personal Experiences Below and Above Water . By Gibbings Robert . With Illustrations by the Author. New York : E. P. Dutton & Company , 1946 . Pp. 154 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews...

...R. E. Watters Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 BOSTON S SALT-WATER PREACHER R. E. WATTERS OR THIRTY YEARS he was one of the most famous speakers in an age which prized eloquence. Whitman rated him above Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Edward Everett, and Wendell Phil­ lips...

...Theodore Ropp Guns on the Western Waters . By Gosnell H. Allen . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1949 . Pp. xii , 273 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 5oo The South Atlantic Quarterly scure mediocrities of average ability, who embody...

...J. A. Bryant, Jr. Measure for Measure as Royal Entertainment . By Bennett Josephine Waters . New York : Columbia University Press , 1966 . Pp. xiv , 208 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 480 The South Atlantic Quarterly ment of stories and poems from...

...John Paul Waters Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 John Paul Waters Introduction I n the autumn of 1800, during the last months of the Irish Parliament, Isaac Weld, Dublin Quaker, travel writer, apostle of the Enlighten­ ment in Ireland, gazed out from his boat of com­ pressed...

...Teresa Shewry Corporations and states are positioning the immensely deep waters and undersea lands of the Pacific Ocean as frontiers that are only just becoming known and important through their efforts to extract fossil fuels, copper, gold, and silver, among other materials. Despite...

...Kaveh Ehsani This essay presents three snapshots of the historical politics of pipelines (oil, natural gas, and water) in Iran since the turn of the twentieth century in order to juxtapose the variegated power struggles around seemingly similar pieces of materials transport technology. Pipelines...

...Brenda Chalfin Ocean spaces are a dynamic arena of political transformation and claims-making essential to the unfolding of late capitalism. Indicative of the expanding geography of oil prospecting in the South Atlantic Ocean, the deep waters of the western Gulf of Guinea map a political economic...

..., in the northern highlands of Peru, which has continuously generated conflicts. In 1998, thousands of trout died in rivers near the mine; in 2000, hundreds of kilos of mercury were spilled in the Choropampa district. Four years later, the water from Cerro Quilish, which supplies the capital Cajamarca...

... how music is well suited to depict the multiply directed nature of environmental change. Further, it describes how musical harmony and orchestration can address the interacting weather conditions that form climate. Syntax of Snow and Six Ecoacoustic Quintets No. 1: Water (Ice) , original compositions...

... broadly define litter to include humanitarian supplies, such as water, food, and blankets, left by No More Deaths and other humanitarian groups. These efforts, therefore, serve not only to restrict the provision of humanitarian aid but also to erase all evidence of the presence of undocumented border...

...Jeremie Caribou This essay reveals the true history of my people. It demonstrates our highly developed social, spiritual, and political governance structures. Our use of the water systems underscores the ecological integrity of sustainable development that we fostered for thousands of years. Yet...

...Shianna McAllister This narrative essay discusses the transformative nature of colonialism in the creation of the Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Heritage Park by highlighting how the creation of the park simultaneously tokenizes and erases Indigenous presence on the land and in the waters. Taking up...

... worked to carve up Turtle Island into preserves of settler jurisdiction, while entrenching and hardening the very means of settler economy and sociality into tangible material structures. Yet infrastructure is not inherently violent — it is also essential for transformation; a pipe can carry fresh water...