Academic Catalog

HIST590 COMMONS IN HISTORY

Course Code: 2400590
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: History
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Political, economic, and environmental history of the commons; theory of commons; privatization and commodification of shared resources, history of enclosures; history of enclosures; tragedy of the commons; governing the commons; property and commons, land and water as commons; forest as commons; dispossession of local communities; commons in Ottoman and Turkish histor.