This book champions the cultural and environmental commons as sites of resistance to the current trend of economic globalization, and explains the nature of educational reforms that promote ecological sustainability, conserving of cultural and linguistic diversity, local democracy, and greater community self-sufficiency.

C. A. Bowers is currently adjunct professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Road Not Taken: Education's Complicity in the Enclosure of the Commons Chapter 3 Revitalizing the Commons in the African American Communities of Detroit Chapter 4 Community-Centered Approaches to Revitalizing the Commons Chapter 5 Understanding the Commons Within the Context of Contemporary Ideologies Chapter 6 The Choice Before Us: Educational Reforms that Revitalize or Further Enclose the Commons