Vocabulary of Commons

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• Vocabulary of Commons - Part 2
• Vocabulary of the Commons - Part 3
• Vocabulary of Commons - Part 4

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CONTENTS ("Inside") – for front matter, see below.

Preface

Authorspeak

Glossary

1.	Perspective
11	Towards a Vocabulary of Commons	Anita Cheria and Edwin
12	Primitive Accumulation of Capital and De–Commoning	Ritajyothi Bandyopadhyay
2.	Natural commons
21	Commons to capital: With special reference to the Mundas of Jharkhand	S Bosu Mallick
22	Commons, Communities and State Appropriation	Ashok Chowdhury, Roma
23	Common Resources and Community Management	Walter Fernandes, Gita Bharali and Melvil Pereira
24	Rural commons: A source of livelihood and sustainability	Prafulla Samantara
25	Water as Commons	C R Neelakandan
26	Coastal Commons	Gomathy Balasubramanian
3.	People and commons
31	Women and commons: Engaging with gender justice	Anungla Aier
32	Children and the right to commons	Enakshi Ganguly Thukral
33	Dalits and the commons	Yashoda
34	The transgender and commons	Anita and Edwin
35	Worker or fisher?	K P Sasi
4.	Urban commons
41	Streets as commons: What’s happening to our streets?	Vinay Sreenivasa
42	Property in urban commons: Contested spaces and embedded claims	Bhuvaneswari Raman
43	Commoning contests the ‘Urban Commons’: Some thoughts on the de–commoning of Bengaluru	Solomon Benjamin
44	Water for commons~disparity in Chennai	Geeta Lakshmi
5.	Social commons
51	Resisting erosion: Dissent and the commons	Kinjal Sampat and Deepak Srinivasan
52	Vocabulary of humanitarian commons	Mihir R Bhatt
53	Social exclusion and the commons	Sukhadeo Thorat and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal
54	Public infrastructure: Building socially inclusive commons	Anita and Edwin
55	Health, nutrition and the commons	Mira Shiva
6.	Knowledge commons
61	The agro–biodiversity commons	Suman Sahai
62	Knowledge and science as commons	Prabir Purkayasthsa
63	The commons and IT: A paradigm shift in knowledge creation	Venkatesh Hariharan
7.	The spiritual and sacred commons
71	The sacred commons: The use, misuse and abuse of religion and spirituality	Anita and Hrangthan Chhungi
72	Cosmosity~Dalits and the spirituality of the commons	MC Raj
8.	Summing up
81	Challenges of modernity and commons	Anita and Edwin
82	Lets talk commons	Anita and Edwin

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