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Plant commodification in Northern Mesopotamia: evidence from the Early Bronze Age site of Kani Shaie, Iraqi Kurdistan

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Archaeology
One of the milestones in the trajectory of economic and social change that spurred increasing societal complexity, and urbanization was the commodification of natural resources, such as plants, animals, and their derived products.
Karolina Joka
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Commodification of Higher Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In the project “Commodification of Higher Education” an investigation of how the purpose of higher education has changed, due to commodification, is carried out.
Jørgensen, Laura   +2 more
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A Market for Environmentally Responsible Investment? Identifying Obstacles and Enablers of Commodification of Environmental Risks in the South African Investment Industry [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyzes the views of South African investment organizations on the likelihood of commodification of environmental risks in their investment decision processes.
Giamporcaro, Stephanie
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Objectification and Commodification

open access: yes, 2016
Objectification and commodification are challenging and disturbing processes. The chapter explores how these processes are transforming ‘religious’ ideas, persons, and practices into ‘things’ across a wide variety of Asian and Western traditions and ...
Jeremy Carrette
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For Your First Born Child: An Ethical Defense of the Exploitation Argument Against Commercial Surrogacy

open access: yes, 2006
In this essay I explore two arguments against commercial surrogacy, based on commodification and exploitation respectively. I adopt a consequentialist framework and argue that commodification arguments must be grounded in a resultant harm to either child
Osberg, Brendan
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Commodification

open access: yes, 2007
Wilkinson, Stephen, Woods, Simon
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On Commodification and Self-Ownership

open access: yes, 2013
This Article explores the ongoing jurisprudential dispute over whether commodification of the human body, including gendered commodification as produced by biotechnology, conflicts with a desirable exercise of self-ownership rights.
Halewood, Peter
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The Patterns of Urban Landscape Commodification

open access: yes
The article deals with several problematic issues related to the commercialization of the past in postindustrial, postmodern consumer societies. Primarily, the process of the commercialization of urban centres, especially of historical cities and their ...
Čepaitienė, Rasa
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