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Law, Social Movements and the Politics of the Commons
This book reinterprets the notion of the commons by tracing how it has been mobilised in the aftermath of economic crisis. In a period of widespread activism against the privatisation of resources and services implemented through austerity policies, the reconceptualisation of property as a non-absolute and non-individualistic institution has attracted a great deal of attention. Drawing on the case of the Italian South, and in the wake of economic crisis, this book offers a critical analysis of the struggle for the commons. More specifically, as it details how discourses, legal tools and policies based on disciplinary ideas of the commons are deployed in the neoliberal restructuring of societ...
The Times and Temporalities of International Human Rights Law
This collection brings together a range of international contributors to stimulate discussions on time and international human rights law, a topic that has been given little attention to date. The book explores how time and its diverse forms can be understood to operate on, and in, this area of law; how time manifests in the theory and practice of human rights law internationally; and how specific areas of human rights can be understood via temporal analyses. A range of temporal ideas and their connection to this area of law are investigated. These include collective memory, ideas of past, present and future, emergency time, the times of environmental change, linearity and non-linearity, multiplicitous time, and the connections between time and space or materiality. Rather than a purely abstract or theoretical endeavour, this dedicated attention to the times and temporalities of international human rights law will assist in better understanding this law, its development, and its operation in the present. What emerges from the collection is a future – or, more precisely, futures – for time as a vehicle of analysis for those working within human rights law internationally.
Dark Commerce
A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce shows, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. In this new world of illicit commerce, which benefits states and diverse participants, trade is impersonal and anonymized, and vast profits are made in short periods with limited accountability to sellers, intermediaries, and purchasers. Louise Shelley examines how new technology, commu...
Generosity and Architecture
This book proposes that architecture can function as a true embodiment of generosity and examines how generosity in architecture operates within, and questions, current and historical socio-economic and political systems. As such, it interrogates ways in which architecture aspires for something more, whether within economic austerities or within historic contexts of a discipline that has often been preoccupied with cost and quantitative measurement. The texts presented in this book critically examine the theme of generosity and architecture from a variety of perspectives, addressing the theoretical, the historical, and the everyday processes of architectural practice, procurement, and policy in a global context. The book is a richly collaborative text which explores how architecture – in its processes of ordering and shaping space – can represent and embody generosity in all its multi-faceted potential.
Fare il molteplice
Come l'acqua e l'olio, il diritto privato e la dimensione collettiva o comune non solo sembrano ignorarsi vicendevolmente ma disegnano una vera e propria antitesi. Da un lato il presidio tecnico delle libertà individuali (prima tra tutte: quella di vendere e comprare), dall'altro la vita in comune e la cooperazione di molte e molti. Difficile, per non dire impossibile, immaginare un rapporto più implausibile e controintuitivo. I saggi raccolti in questo volume si impegnano in una ragionata e cocciuta smentita di questa distanza apparentemente siderale. Lo fanno ricostruendo la storia, molto più recente di quanto si possa sospettare, delle ragioni che giustificano il carattere quasi intrat...
Law, Social Movements, and the Politics of the Commons
"This book reinterprets the notion of the commons by tracing how it has been mobilised in the aftermath of economic crisis. In a period of widespread activism against the privatisation of resources and services implemented through austerity policies, the reconceptualisation of property as a non-absolute and non-individualistic institution has attracted a great deal of attention. Drawing on the case of the Italian South, and in the wake of economic crisis, this book offers a critical analysis of the struggle for the commons. More specifically, as it details how discourses, legal tools and policies based on liberal ideas of the commons are deployed in the neoliberal restructuring of societies,...
Dictionnaire des biens communs
Que sont les « communs » ? La notion ne cesse d’être mobilisée aujourd’hui. Elle traduit le constat d’une évolution des pratiques sociales : les biens seraient davantage mis en partage. Logiciel libre, habitat participatif, vélos ou voitures en usage successif, entreprise qui serait le « bien commun » de toutes les parties prenantes : la notion envahit tous les domaines de la vie, allant de la culture, l’environnement et l’urbanisme à la santé, au travail et à la technologie. Si la mobilisation est intense, c’est que la notion autorise à penser le changement social sur la base d’un réinvestissement du collectif, des communautés, du partage et de l’usage. Elle réinterprète les valeurs fondatrices des sociétés contemporaines. Ainsi, les communs sont irrémédiablement liés au rôle de l’État, de la propriété et de la démocratie. Ils sont à la fois une réflexion théorique, un débat politique et un lieu d’expériences citoyennes. Ce dictionnaire, placé à mi-chemin entre le vocabulaire et l’encyclopédie, est un véritable outil de compréhension du phénomène dans les différents champs où il intervient. Deuxième édition
Cyborgs, Santa Claus and Satan
In the three decades since the first SF film produced for television--1968's Shadow on the Land--nearly 600 films initially released to television have had science fiction, fantasy, or horror themes. Featuring superheroes, monsters, time travel, and magic, these films range from the phenomenal to the forgettable, from low-budget to blockbuster. Information on all such American releases from 1968 through 1998 is collected here. Each entry includes cast and credits, a plot synopsis, qualitative commentary, and notes of interest on aspects of the film. Appendices provide a list of other films that include some science fiction, horror, or fantasy elements; a film chronology; and a guide to alternate titles.
Sevens & Sixes
Having safely delivered her brother to the portal against impossible odds and unimaginable foes, and choosing not to follow him through it to a shared destiny, Khia Ashworth must forge a new path to an uncertain future. But she is not alone. Whisked away to the questionable sanctuary of the Vatican's hallowed halls, Khia and her trusted companions must keep themselves from being buried beneath the weight of its history and power, learning who to trust and from whom they need to run. Unwittingly breathing life into ancient prophecies long dismissed as rhetoric and legend, and setting deadly wheels in motion, Khia's unique family of friends must face the forces of evil that are pitted against them once more, enlisting the help of unlikely allies in their attempt to escape the grasping reach of the church's army and the deadly enemies hidden within its ranks. Pursued by legendary creatures of mist and fire, across merciless deserts and countless worlds connected by the slimmest of threads, Khia must learn to move beyond the borders of time and place to discover her own power-hidden somewhere along the Corridor of Doors.
The Process of International Legal Reproduction
Radical international legal history of the expansionary project of statehood and its role in generating profound distributional inequalities
