Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction Nil Disco Eda Kranakis 1
2 Toward a Theory of Cosmopolitan Commons Nil Disco Eda Kranakis 13
I Valorizing Nature
3 The "Good Miracle": Building a European Airspace Commons, 1919-1939 Eda Kranakis 57
4 Negotiating the Radio Spectrum: The Incessant Labor of Maintaining Space for European Broadcasting Nina Wormbs 97
5 Conflict and Cooperation: Negotiating a Cosmopolitan Hydropower Commons on the Karelian Isthmus Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro 123
II Protecting Humans and Nature
6 Predicting the Weather: An Information Commons for Europe and the World Paul N. Edwards 153
7 Breeding Europe: Crop Diversity, Gene Banks, and Commoners Tiago Saraiva 185
8 Under a Common Acid Sky: Negotiating Transboundary Air Pollution in Europe Arne Kaijser 213
III Temporal Layering and Interlinking of Cosmopolitan Commons in Nature's Spaces
9 Changing Technology, Changing Commons: Freight, Fish, and Oil in the North Sea Håkon With Andersen 245
10 "One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin": Ships, Fish, Phenol, and the Rhine, 1815-2000 Nil Disco 271
11 Conclusions Nil Disco Eda Kranakis 317
Index 329