Capital versus Commons, Part 5: Against Enclosure – The Commoners Fight Back
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Capital versus Commons, Part 5: Against Enclosure – The Commoners Fight Back

Fifth and last part of a long article that discusses how the commons in England were gradually driven out of existence, the small farms engrossed, the land enclosed, and the commoners forcibly removed. This part discusses the mass resistance to privatization and dispossession.

It’s Taken Thousands of Years, But Western Science Is Finally Catching Up to Traditional Knowledge

It’s Taken Thousands of Years, But Western Science Is Finally Catching Up to Traditional Knowledge

Are Indigenous and Western systems of knowledge categorically antithetical? Or do they offer multiple points of entry into knowledge of the world, past and present? There are many cases where science and history are catching up with what Indigenous peoples have long known.