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Enclosure is a term in neo-marxist political economy and political ecology referring to the act of separating producers from their means of production }. Enclosure is regarded as the dominant social force advancing the process of capital accumulation.

Enclosures can come in a direct form of exclusion and appropriation and in indirect forms as a by-product of the accumulation process. Direct forms usually take shape in a form of policy or legal measures, including privatizations, land seizures and austerity measures. Indirect forms could manifest in commodification of social spheres, subjecting them to the social interaction of markets so to correspond and to be disciplined to the logic of capital, or by environmental degradation caused by economic activity rendering a common "unusable" as observed in water sources, air pollution etc.