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On 16 February 2003, more than half a million people gathered in Sydney, Australia, as part of a global anti-war protest aimed at stopping the impending invasion of Iraq by the then US Administration. It is difficult to estimate how many millions marched on the coordinated protest, but it was by far the largest mobilization of a generation. Walking and chanting on the streets of Sydney that day, it seemed that a political moment was upon us. In a culture that rarely embraces large scale activism, millions around Australian demanded to be heard. The message was clear: if you do not hear us, we would be willing to bring down a government. The invasion went ahead, however, with the then Australian government, under the leadership of John Howard, being one of the loudest and staunchest supporters of the Bush Administrations drive to war. Within 18 months, anti-war activists struggled to have a few hundred participants take part in anti-Iraq war rallies, and the Howard Government was comfortably re-elected for another term. The political moment had come and gone, with both social commentators and many members of the public looking for a reason. While the conservative media was often the focus of analysis, this paper argues that in a time of late capitalism, the political moment is hollowed out by 'Politics' itself. That is to say, that formal political processes (or 'Politics') undermine the political practices that people participate in everyday (or 'politics'). Drawing on an ongoing research project focusing on democracy and young people, I discuss how the concept of 'politics' has been destabilised and subsequently, the political moment has been displaced. This displacement has led to a re-definition of 'political action' and, I argue, the emergence of a different type of everyday politics.

On 16 February 2003, more than half a million people gathered in Sydney, Australia, as part of a global anti-war protest aimed at stopping the impending invasion of Iraq by the then US Administration. It is difficult to estimate how many millions marched on the coordinated protest, but it was by far the largest mobilization of a generation. Walking and chanting on the streets of Sydney that day, it seemed that a political moment was upon us. In a culture that rarely embraces large scale activism, millions around Australian demanded to be heard. The message was clear: if you do not hear us, we would be willing to bring down a government. The invasion went ahead, however, with the then Australian government, under the leadership of John Howard, being one of the loudest and staunchest supporters of the Bush Administrations drive to war. Within 18 months, anti-war activists struggled to have a few hundred participants take part in anti-Iraq war rallies, and the Howard Government was comfortably re-elected for another term. The political moment had come and gone, with both social commentators and many members of the public looking for a reason. While the conservative media was often the focus of analysis, this paper argues that in a time of late capitalism, the political moment is hollowed out by 'Politics' itself. That is to say, that formal political processes (or 'Politics') undermine the political practices that people participate in everyday (or 'politics'). Drawing on an ongoing research project focusing on democracy and young people, I discuss how the concept of 'politics' has been destabilised and subsequently, the political moment has been displaced. This displacement has led to a re-definition of 'political action' and, I argue, the emergence of a different type of everyday politics.

This paper considers whether as anti-racist activists we can form a community of solidarity. Critiquing the issue of 'whiteness', I consider whether such a community reflects or actually confronts the structures of a political economy of whiteness. Using both academic literature and narrative research I reflect on my own experiences of racism and hurt. These emotional and important issues are then intertwined within the political economy of whiteness.

This paper considers whether as anti-racist activists we can form a community of solidarity. Critiquing the issue of 'whiteness', I consider whether such a community reflects or actually confronts the structures of a political economy of whiteness. Using both academic literature and narrative research I reflect on my own experiences of racism and hurt. These emotional and important issues are then intertwined within the political economy of whiteness.

This paper begins with a simple question—'how can you steal something that no one owns'? Though a simple question, the answer is complicated, for the stealing of 'things' owned by no one explains an important aspect of capitalism's insatiable appetite. Historically the conditions for industrialisation and market economies were created by capital through the colonisation of common lands and common modes of production—things that are shared but not owned. And this is an appetite that shows no sign of abating. This paper looks at the concept of the commons as aspects of our lives that no one owns but that everyone enjoys. Today the commons are constantly under siege. However, this claim does not only refer to 'physical' commons; here, I extend the concept of non-commodified 'spaces' into the cultural sphere.
By outlining how capital continually works to enclose the commons—both physical and cultural—this paper aims to present a key contest occurring between neoliberalism and today's social justice movements. This conflict is based on the manufacturing of scarcity through enclosure versus the concept of abundance through sharing and cooperation. The purpose, then, is to identify the source of this enclosure, and why it continues, as well as describe potential paths to challenge it.

Introduction : property, place, and piracy / Martin Fredriksson & James Arvanitakis -- On decolonising our thinking and cultural exchange / Ingrid Matthews -- Commons, piracy, and property : crisis, conflict and resistance / James Arvanitakis & Martin Fredriksson -- Property, sovereignty, piracy, and the commons : early modern enclosure and the foundation of the state / Sean Johnson Andrews -- Unreal property : anarchism, anthropology, and alchemy / Jonathan Paul Marshall & Francesca da Rimini -- Piratical constructions of humanity : innocence, property, and the human-nature divide / Sonja Schillings -- Mobility in early modern Anglo-American accounts of piracy / Alexandra Ganser -- Compensation in the absence of punishment : rethinking Somali piracy as a form of maritime xeer / Brittany Gilmer -- Commodification of country : an Australian case study in community resistance to mining / Ingrid Matthews -- Privateering on the cosmic frontier? mining celestial bodies and the "newspace" quest for private property in outer space / Matthew Johnson -- "The ancestry land": China's pursuit of dominance in the South China Sea / Jingdong Yuan -- Nuclear testing and the "Terra Nullius Doctrine": from life sciences to life writing / Mita Banerjee -- From biopiracy to bioprospecting : negotiating the limits of propertization / Martin Fredriksson -- Gated housing hierarchy / Franklin Obeng-Odoom -- Pirate places in Bangkok : IPRS, vendors, and urban order / Duncan McDuie-re & Daniel F. Robinson -- The real Gruen transfer : enclosing the right to the city / James Arvanitakis & Spike Boydell -- Epilogue / James Arvanitakis & Martin Fredriksson

Intro -- Table of Contents -- On Piracy -- List of Acronyms -- Part I - Ontology -- The Pirate Imaginary and the Potential of the Authorial Pirate -- To Name a Thief: Constructing the Deviant Pirate -- "You Can't Change our Ancestors Without our Permission": Cultural Perspectives on Biopiracy -- Piratical Community and the Digital Age: The Structural Racialization of Piracy in European Law and Culture1 -- Part II - Politics -- Modernity, Law and the Violence of Piracy, Property and the State -- 'Pirates' in EU's (Semi)Peripheries -- The IPR GPR: The Emergence of a Global Prohibition Regime to Regulate Intellectual Property Infringement -- BitTorrent: Stealing or Sharing Culture? A Discussion of the Pirate Bay Case and the Documentaries "Steal This Film I & II" -- The Internet Between Politics and the Political: -- Cultural Resistance or Corporate Assistance: -- Part III - Practice -- The Justifications of Piracy: -- Set the Fox to Watch the Geese: -- Pirate Economies and the Production of Smooth Spaces -- The Collaborative Production of Amateur Subtitles for Pirated TV Shows in Brazil -- After Piracy: Reflections of Industrial Designers in Taiwan on Sustainable Innovations -- Piracy is Normal, Piracy is Boring: -- An Epilogue Privacy is Theft: On Anonymous Experiences, Infrastructural Politics and Accidental Encounters -- Contributing Authors -- INDEX.

"A collection of texts that takes a broad perspective on digital piracy and attempts to capture the multidimensional impacts of digital piracy on capitalist society today"--

Preliminary Material /James Arvanitakis and Ingrid Matthews -- 21st Century Citizen Networks in Complex States: Shall We Dance or Play Tug-of-War? /Eugene G. Kowch -- Nomos Beyond the Earth /Josh Entsminger -- Israeli Narratives to the Diaspora and the Construction of an Unequal Diasporic Citizenship /Shahar Burla -- Arendtian Deliberation on the Decline of Political Public Space: The Case of Postwar Japanese Citizenship /Yaya Mori -- Multiple Nationality and the (Ab)Use of Citizenship: Identity Opportunity and Risk /Anna Tsalapatanis -- Migrating Rights /Laurie Berg -- Asian Democracy and the Problem of Membership: Rules of Exception and 'Legitimate' Discrimination against Migrants in South Korea /Sohoon Lee -- Expanding the Citizen in Multicultural Policymaking /Rimi Khan -- Universalising Citizenship as Identity? Identity Liberalism and the Paradox of Universalism /Francis Luong -- Expanding Citizenship: Expanding Our Understanding /Mitra Gusheh and Anna Powell -- Teaching and Learning Citizenship: From the Margins to the Centre /Ingrid Matthews -- 'The Kids Are Alright, It's Just Youth in Trouble': Re-Thinking Civic Competence through a Presence Model of Youth Citizenship Identity /Jennifer Upchurch -- Environment and Citizenship: Rethinking What It Means to Be a Citizen in the 21st Century /Benito Cao -- Environmental Citizenship: A Case Study of the Global Young Greens /Alex Surace and Amy Tyler -- Practicing an Individual Ethics of Sustainability /Chris Riedy -- Engagement and Citizenship: Universities in the Contemporary World /James Arvanitakis and Bob Hodge -- An Open Source Project for Politics: Visions of Democracy and Citizenship in American Pirate Parties /Martin Fredriksson -- A 21st Century Citizen in a Brave New Republic /Spike Boydell -- The 21st Century Citizen and Beyond /Ingrid Matthews and James Arvanitakis.

This article takes the politicisation of copyright and file sharing as a starting point to discuss the concept of the commons and the construction of property. Empirically, the article draws on a series of interviews with Pirate Party members in Sweden, Australia, Germany, the UK and USA; placed in the theoretical framework of the commons. We argue that piracy, as an act and an ideology, interrogates common understandings of property as something self-evident, natural and uncontestable. Such constructions found liberal market ideology. The article has two broad aims: to outline the different phases of enclosure, from the physical commons, to the institutional and finally the cultural commons; and to discuss the way that piracy highlights the emergent crisis in private property rights, brought to the fore by the global financial crisis and ongoing privatization of public resources. We conclude by questioning what new modes of enclosure are emerging in a digital economy driven by excessive data mining and centralized streaming services. ; The Ideology of Piracy

A political battle is being waged over the use and control of culture and information. While media companies and copyright organisations argue for stricter intellectual property laws, a growing body of citizens challenge the contemporary IP-regime. This has seen a political mobilisation of piracy. Pirate parties see themselves as a digital civil rights movement, defending the public domain and the citizen's right to privacy against copyright expansionism and increased surveillance. Since the first pirate party was formed in Sweden in 2006, similar parties have emerged across the world. This article draws on a study of the culture and ideology of copyright resistance, through interviews with pirate party representatives in Europe and North America. It focuses on challenges to democracy, and the distinction between public and private property and spaces, in the wake of the war on terror and the global financial crisis.

A political battle is being waged over the use and control of culture and information. While media companies and copyright organisations argue for stricter intellectual property laws, a growing body of citizens challenge the contemporary IP-regime. This has seen a political mobilisation of piracy. Pirate parties see themselves as a digital civil rights movement, defending the public domain and the citizen's right to privacy against copyright expansionism and increased surveillance. Since the first pirate party was formed in Sweden in 2006, similar parties have emerged across the world. This article draws on a study of the culture and ideology of copyright resistance, through interviews with pirate party representatives in Europe and North America. It focuses on challenges to democracy, and the distinction between public and private property and spaces, in the wake of the war on terror and the global financial crisis. ; Piratkopieringens ideologi: En studie av piratkopiering, upphovsrätt och modernitet i Sverige, USA och Australien