Christophers, Brett, 1971- author.

The new enclosure : the appropriation of public land in neoliberal Britain / Brett Christophers.

London : Verso, [2019]
©2019

xviii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

"Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatisation programme, but the biggest privatisation of them all has until now escaped scrutiny: the privatisation of land. Since Margaret Thatcher took power in 1979, and hidden from the public eye, about 10 per cent of the entire British land mass, including some of its most valuable real estate, has passed from public to private hands. Forest land, defence land, health service land and above all else local authority land--for farming and school sports, for recreation and housing--has been sold off en masse. Why? How? And with what social, economic and political consequences? The New Enclosure [studies this] phenomenon, situating it as a centrepiece of neoliberalism in Britain and as a successor programme to the original eighteenth-century enclosures. With more public land still slated for disposal, the book identifies the stakes and asks what, if anything, can and should be done."-- Publisher's website

1786631598 (paperback)
9781786631596 (paperback)

Public land sales Great Britain.
Land tenure Great Britain.
Public lands Great Britain.
Terres publiques Vente Grande-Bretagne.
Land tenure.
Public land sales.
Public lands.
Great Britain.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 307356
Cote: BIB 252845
Statut: Disponible