List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Part One: Framing the Issues
1. Thematic Introduction: Decommodification, Democracy, and the Battle for the Commons
Dennis Soron & Gordon Laxer
2. The Commodity Status of Labour: The Secret of Commodified Life
David McNally
3. On the Ownership of Nature
Birgit Muller
4. Cosmopolitan Elites Versus Nationally-focused Citizens—Cycles of Decommodification Struggles
Gordon Laxer
Part Two: Dynamics of Commodification
5. The General Agreement on Trade in Services—Politics by Another Means
Ellen Gould
6. Frontiers of the Market: Commodifying Human Body Parts
Trevor W. Harrison
7. A New Gender (Dis)order?—Neoliberal Restructuring in Australia
Ray Broomhill & Rhonda Sharp
8. Water is Life! The Debate over Private Sector Participation in Water Supply
Karen Bakker
Part Three: Democratic Struggles for Decommodification
9. Commodification and Decommodification in Mexico under NAFTA
Teresa Gutierrez-Haces
10. Forging New Democracies: Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy
Gerardo Otero & Heidi Jugenitz
11. In Defence of the Environmental State: NGO Strategies to Resist the Commodification of Nature
Anita Krajnc
12. From the Knowledge Economy to the Knowledge Commons: Resisting the Commodification of Knowledge
Jennifer Sumner
13. Decommodifying Daily Life: The Politics of Overconsumption
Dennis Soron
References
Notes on Contributors
Index
