{"id":774,"date":"2018-02-05T11:28:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T10:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/?p=774"},"modified":"2018-02-05T11:28:24","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T10:28:24","slug":"privatization-property-and-the-remaking-of-nature-society-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/2018\/02\/05\/privatization-property-and-the-remaking-of-nature-society-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/Privatization-Property-Remaking-Nature-Society-Relations-ebook\/dp\/B006CWBGKS\" target=\"_blank\">Privatization<\/a>, Becky Mansfield et alii argue that contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms people\u2019s relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world. This groundbreaking collection provides the first systematic analysis of neo-liberal privatization.<\/p>\n<p>Rich case studies of privatization in the making reveal both the pivotal role that privatization plays in neoliberalism and new opportunities for challenging neo-liberal hegemony.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rich case studies linked to broader questions on neoliberalism<\/li>\n<li>Illustrates the importance of property relation and the complexities existing in the meaning and practice of property<\/li>\n<li>Extends current geographical scholarship on neoliberalism \u2013including neoliberalism and nature<\/li>\n<li>Each essay touches on the disciplinary, regulatory dimensions of privatization<\/li>\n<li>Highlights the importance of privatization, both broadly and specifically<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p>Becky Mansfield is professor of Geography at Ohio State University and author of many books and papers. She is obviously a liberal and as such no wonder she is a harsh critic of free market environmentalism (FME) which advocates private property of natural resources, markets and deregulation.<\/p>\n<p>She considers that private property is a form of dispossession that separates individuals from the means of production and forces them into wage labor. Of course it creates owners and make them efficient and profit seeking.(Locke)<\/p>\n<p>However Mansfield states that beyond individual efficiency \u201c<em>property rights serve critical functions in making capitalist markets possible and the premise on which commodification, marketization and deregulation are built \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She considers that it is through privatization that neoliberalism becomes possible and remakes nature\/society relation.<\/p>\n<p>I do think that FME advocates should take into account Mansfield\u2019s and the seven contributor\u2019s papers to avoid some backlash from progressives and reach a middle of the road consensus or at least understand why so many good faith think tanks do not agree .(especially in Continental Europe)<\/p>\n<p>Max Falque<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Privatization, Becky Mansfield et alii argue that contemporary privatization remakes nature-society as property and transforms people\u2019s relationships to themselves, each other, and the natural world. 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Rich case studies of privatization in the making reveal both the pivotal role that privatization plays in neoliberalism <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/2018\/02\/05\/privatization-property-and-the-remaking-of-nature-society-relations\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}