Introduction

The Global Idea of 'the Commons'

in Social Analysis
Author:
Donald M. Nonini University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill donald.nonini@unc.edu

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What is now at stake at this point in world history is control over ‘the commons’—the great variety of natural, physical, social, intellectual, and cultural resources that make human survival possible. By ‘the commons’ I mean those assemblages and ensembles of resources that human beings hold in common or in trust to use on behalf of themselves, other living human beings, and past and future generations of human beings, and which are essential to their biological, cultural, and social reproduction.

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