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Commons Reading Group 2: Primitive Accumulation

Submitted by shiri on Mon, 2008-02-18 20:50.

The Commons Reading Group will begin our second phase of readings in April 2008, this time focused on primitive accumulation. The cross-cutting historical, economic, social, and metaphorical concepts of commons/enclosures left us with many questions about how to think about resistance to privatization and commodification. A crucial aspect of this answer seems to lie in the ways in which societies are pulled into the market society, in order to understand what it may mean to pull out.

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Reading Group

Commons | Reading Group: Toronto, Fall 2007

Submitted by shiri on Tue, 2007-09-25 11:01.

Call for Participation
Part of A Potential Toronto

Mondays, 8-10pm, Oct. 1 to Dec. 3, 2007
Location TBC

Free, but spots are limited. Copies of readings provided.

Facilitated by Shiri Pasternak

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