ABSTRACT
The chapters in this part deal with the production of new sorts of fictitious
commodities from a variety of ‘‘natures’’ newly privatized and circulated
under neoliberal reforms. As a collection, they resoundingly demonstrate
that enclosure is alive and well in the twenty-first century. The authors vary
in the ways they refer to, conceptualize, and address enclosure – from ‘‘pri-
mitive accumulation’’ to ‘‘dispossession’’ to ‘‘privatization’’ to creating new
‘‘property rights’’ and ‘‘claims.’’ This speaks to an unresolved tension vis-a`-
vis the relation between enclosure and primitive accumulation. Yet, all the chapters engage productively with a relatively new debate about the his-
toricity or trans-historicity of dispossession, primitive accumulation and
accumulation (e.g., de Angelis 2001; Zarembka 2002). All show that con-
temporary enclosures relate or react to historical forms of enclosure and
claims-making in the sites or circumstances they take as their subjects.
