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Sarah Whatmore
Sarah Whatmore is Professor of Environment and Public Policy in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. She is a cultural geographer by training, a Fellow of the British Academy and was a member of Defra’s Science Advisory Council for 8 years, Chairing its Social Science Expert Group. She has written about the contested extension of private property rights associated with the creation of ‘new’ resources in the 20th/21st centuries in her book Hybrid Geographies (Sage, 2001).
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This event examines the concept of the commons, with case studies from archaeology, anthropology and geography. It explores the things we share in common – language, knowledge, physical resources, and the forms of organisation needed to protect them.