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

Schmidt, Jeremy J.; Mitchell, Kyle R.

doi:10.1177/0486613413488069

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

Schmidt, Jeremy J.; Mitchell, Kyle R.

Authors

Dr Jeremy Schmidt jeremy.schmidt@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Kyle R. Mitchell

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

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Schmidt, Jeremy J. and Mitchell, Kyle R. (2014) 'Property and the right to water : toward a non-liberal commons.', Review of radical political economics., 46 (1). pp. 54-69. © 2013 Union for Radical Political Economics. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.