Property and the Right to Water: Toward a Non-Liberal Commons

Schmidt, Jeremy J.; Mitchell, Kyle R.

Abstract

This paper examines the turn to considerations of property in arguments regarding the commons and the human right to water. It identifies commitments to liberalism in political economy approaches to property and human rights and develops a matrix for identifying non-liberal conceptions of the commons. The latter holds potential for an agonistic politics in which human rights are compatible with ecological sensibilities regarding the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in complex systems.

Citation

Schmidt, J. J., & Mitchell, K. R. (2014). Property and the Right to Water: Toward a Non-Liberal Commons. Review of Radical Political Economics, 46(1), 54-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613413488069

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 19, 2012
• Online Publication Date: Jun 12, 2013
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Jan 9, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: May 15, 2017
• Journal: Review of Radical Political Economics
• Print ISSN: 0486-6134
• Electronic ISSN: 1552-8502
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 54-69
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613413488069