GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: For Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Political Ecology
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Ggrb21 lecture 4: essential tools: critical ideas about the environment. Therefore we need to explore some theoretical concepts that help to put political ecology in a better position to respond to these questions. Common property theory: the idea that natural resources over which struggles occur, are traditionally managed as a collective or common property, local natural resource management strategies rely on local rules and regulations about use and management. Interest in this theory grew in response to the tragedy of the commons" (hardin, Importantly, the commons" are not unowned (legally, res nullius). The commons" are collectively owned (legally res communes). Thus, as production systems change, (e. g. how goods are made, assembled,etc) societies also change: capitalist production requires extraction of surplus labour and nature. Thompson and james scott: the moral economy of the peasant peasants are faced with subsistence risks that force them to create social systems of mutual assistance to deal with this risk.
