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Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:35 PM<br>Subject: New From Pluto Press - Nature for Sale: The Commons versus Commodities<br>To: Jon Wheatley <<a href="mailto:jonw@plutobooks.com">jonw@plutobooks.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">
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<b><br></b></p><p style="margin-right:0px;text-align:center;font:normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><b>Nature for Sale: <br>
The Commons versus <br>
Commodities</b></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px;text-align:center;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><b>Giovanna Ricoveri</b></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px;text-align:center;font:normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><span style="font:14.0px 'Gill Sans Light'"><i>Foreword by</i></span><b> Vandana Shiva</b></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px;text-align:center;font:normal normal normal 15px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><b>Out Now</b></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px;font:normal normal normal 10.5px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><b>This book fills a gap, as it allows to understand the foundations for waging a survival struggle against an encroaching climate. It will help readers to penetrate the systematic nature of the war against Nature and it can be a very useful tool in strengthening the movements to stop the assault.</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Gill Sans Light';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><i>Saul Landau, Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies, Berkeley</i></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px;font:normal normal normal 10.5px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><b>An historical-philosophical inquiry into an alternative route to the current devastating economic and social order. Written by one of the leading intellectuals of the Italian left, among the first in Europe to deal with political ecology issues.</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Gill Sans Light';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><i>Grazia Francescato, leading environmentalist and previous leader of the Italian Green Party</i></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.1px">Nature for Sale uncovers the rich heritage of common ownership which existed before the dominance of capitalist property relations. Giovanna Ricoveri argues that the subsistence commons of the past can be reinvented today to provide an alternative to the current destructive economic order.�</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;min-height:13px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.1px"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.1px">Ricoveri outlines the distinct features of common ownership as it has existed in history: cooperation, sustainable use of natural resources and decision-making through direct democracy. In doing so, she shows how it is possible to provide goods and services which are not commodities exchanged on the capitalistic market, something still demonstrated today in village communities across the global South.</span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;min-height:13px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.1px"></span><br></p>
<p style="margin-right:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.1px">Tracing the erosion of the commons from the European enclosures at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to the new enclosures of modern capitalism, the book concludes by arguing that a new commons is needed today. It will be essential reading for activists as well as students and academics in history, politics, economics and development studies.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0px;font:normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Gill Sans';font-size:14px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0.1px"><b>Giovanna Ricoveri is a writer and activist. She is the author of a book on the commons in Italian, Beni comuni vs Merci (2010) and editor of Beni comuni tra tradizione e futuro (2005). She is the founding editor of Capitalismo Natura Socialismo, which is part of the international network Capitalism Nature Socialism.</b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0.1px"><b></b></span></p><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;text-align:center;font:11.0px 'Gill Sans'"><b><b>For further information, to request a review copy or to speak to the author please contact Jon Wheatley at <a href="mailto:jonw@plutobooks.com" target="_blank">jonw@plutobooks.com</a> or on 0208 374 6424</b></b></p>
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