Seeing Like a Commons

Seeing Like a Commons
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9781498592895
ISBN-13 : 1498592899
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Book Synopsis Seeing Like a Commons by : Joshua Lockyer

Download or read book Seeing Like a Commons written by Joshua Lockyer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua Lockyer demonstrates how a growing group of people have, over the last eighty years, deliberately built Celo Community, a communal settlement on 1,200 acres of commonly owned land in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Joshua Lockyer highlights the potential for intentional communities like Celo to raise awareness of global interconnectivity and structural inequalities, enabling people and communities to become better stewards and citizens of both local landscapes and global commons.


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