Becky Mansfield is an Associate Professor of Geography at Ohio State University. She has published widely on the political and cultural economy of nature, with a particular focus on neo-liberalization of natural resources and the role of nature in economic processes. Mansfield is currently researching the making of bodies of scientific knowledge regarding the environmental effects of agro-food production.

• Introduction: Becky Mansfield. 1. The Fictions of Autonomous Invention: Accumulation by Dispossession, Commodification and Life Patents in Canada (Scott Prudham).2. The 'Commons' Versus the 'Commodity': Alter-globalization, Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South (Karen Bakker).3. The Polanyian Way? Voluntary Food Labels as Neoliberal Governance (Julie Guthman).4. Property, Markets, and Dispossession: The Western Alaska Community Development Quota as Neoliberalism, Social Justice, Both, and Neither (Becky Mansfield).5. Discovering Price in All the Wrong Places: The Work of Commodity Definition and Price under Neoliberal Environmental Policy (Morgan Robertson).6. The Difference that Class Makes: Neoliberalization and Non-Capitalism in the Fishing Industry of New England (Kevin St Martin).7. Land Reform in the Time of Neoliberalism: A Many-Splendored Thing (Wendy Wolford).Index.

?This collection is both complex and thought provoking. ? This book offers a much needed critical edge to exploring the contested space characterized by the co-modification of nature and the remaking of nature ? society relations as property.? (International Journal of Social Welfare , July 2009)

Becky Mansfield is an Associate Professor of Geography at Ohio State University. She has published widely on the political and cultural economy of nature, with a particular focus on neo-liberalization of natural resources and the role of nature in economic processes. Mansfield is currently researching the making of bodies of scientific knowledge regarding the environmental effects of agro-food production.

• Introduction: Becky Mansfield. 1. The Fictions of Autonomous Invention: Accumulation by Dispossession, Commodification and Life Patents in Canada (Scott Prudham).2. The 'Commons' Versus the 'Commodity': Alter-globalization, Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South (Karen Bakker).3. The Polanyian Way? Voluntary Food Labels as Neoliberal Governance (Julie Guthman).4. Property, Markets, and Dispossession: The Western Alaska Community Development Quota as Neoliberalism, Social Justice, Both, and Neither (Becky Mansfield).5. Discovering Price in All the Wrong Places: The Work of Commodity Definition and Price under Neoliberal Environmental Policy (Morgan Robertson).6. The Difference that Class Makes: Neoliberalization and Non-Capitalism in the Fishing Industry of New England (Kevin St Martin).7. Land Reform in the Time of Neoliberalism: A Many-Splendored Thing (Wendy Wolford).Index.

?This collection is both complex and thought provoking. ? This book offers a much needed critical edge to exploring the contested space characterized by the co-modification of nature and the remaking of nature ? society relations as property.? (International Journal of Social Welfare , July 2009)

Becky Mansfield is an Associate Professor of Geography at Ohio State University. She has published widely on the political and cultural economy of nature, with a particular focus on neo-liberalization of natural resources and the role of nature in economic processes. Mansfield is currently researching the making of bodies of scientific knowledge regarding the environmental effects of agro-food production.

• Introduction: Becky Mansfield. 1. The Fictions of Autonomous Invention: Accumulation by Dispossession, Commodification and Life Patents in Canada (Scott Prudham).2. The 'Commons' Versus the 'Commodity': Alter-globalization, Anti-privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South (Karen Bakker).3. The Polanyian Way? Voluntary Food Labels as Neoliberal Governance (Julie Guthman).4. Property, Markets, and Dispossession: The Western Alaska Community Development Quota as Neoliberalism, Social Justice, Both, and Neither (Becky Mansfield).5. Discovering Price in All the Wrong Places: The Work of Commodity Definition and Price under Neoliberal Environmental Policy (Morgan Robertson).6. The Difference that Class Makes: Neoliberalization and Non-Capitalism in the Fishing Industry of New England (Kevin St Martin).7. Land Reform in the Time of Neoliberalism: A Many-Splendored Thing (Wendy Wolford).Index.

?This collection is both complex and thought provoking. ? This book offers a much needed critical edge to exploring the contested space characterized by the co-modification of nature and the remaking of nature ? society relations as property.? (International Journal of Social Welfare , July 2009)