This book makes an important contribution to the discussion about global human rights, and it should be on the shelves of advocates and activists everywhere.
-This book is a major contribution to a new discourse on the notion of rights in relation to community. [Roger Clark, former Secretary General of Amnesty International]
-This important book on the recovery of community rights shows how we lost our collective freedoms and how we can reclaim them. [Vandana Shiva, author]
-Stunning. [Upendra Baxi]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Upendra Baxi
Introduction
Section 1: 'All life being one life': The 'Common' Good, Rights, and the Meaning of Community
1. Preamble: The Parable of the Flute
2. Corporate Personhood and the Attack on the Commons
3. Distracted Community: Facebook and the Real of the Illusion
4. Particulated Community vs. Interconnected Communities: The Challenges of Viral Resistance
5. The Ends of Community: Rethinking the Commons
6. Community and Total War
7. Community and Meaning: The Problem of Relational Contingencies
8. Assumed Communities and Unavowable Communities
9. 'All life being one life: ' The Ethics of Encounter and 'Being-with'
10. The Unpossessed Community: Coyote's Story
Section 2: 'None can survive unless all survive': Community, Story, Land - Making the Connections
1. Indigeneity and Sacred Geographies Versus Imperialist Monoculture
2. The Law of the Land
3. Community Conflicts With the State
4. Revolutionary Community: The Case of Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers
5. Feeding the People / People Feeding Themselves
6. Earth As the Basis of Democracy / Democracy in Support of the Earth
7. Education and Development in an Ecology of Knowledges
Section 3: 'Freedom ... to rise above a cruel planet': The Paradox of Global Community - Neo-Colonialism Versus Evolving Ecologies
1. Story and Imagination: Some Contexts For Thinking Global Community
2. Diasporic and Fractured Communities: The Global Story of Liu Chunlan
3. State Surveillance and Policing Versus Community-based Conflict Resolution: The Global Story of Robert Dziekanski
4. 'Thieving' / Labouring Community: Scapegoating Untouchables
5. Communitarian Values and the Politics of Self-Sameness: Community At / Beyond the Borders
6. Concerted Community: Sun Ra's Improvised / Improvising Communities and the Creative Commons
7. Revisionary Histories and Healing Stories
Section 4: 'Choice words set a seed in the child': Event Horizons of the Possible and Kiviuq's Story
1. Community Beyond Measure: 'Everything is one'
2. Coda: The Parable of Kiviuq
Works Cited
Index
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