From Land Ownership To Landed Commons

Author : Frank Moulaert,Pieter van den Broeck,Pavlos-_arinos Delladetsimas,Liana Simmons
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781035319688

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From Land Ownership to Landed Commons by Frank Moulaert,Pieter van den Broeck,Pavlos-_arinos Delladetsimas,Liana Simmons Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive survey of the history of thought and practice of commoning of land from a social innovation perspective. Presenting refreshing theoretical and historical perspectives and examining three case-studies in great depth, it explores how social relations, ethics, and agencies affect the building and development Ð but also the decline Ð of Landed Commons.

Author : Maria Relaki,Despina Catapoti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135050443

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An Archaeology of Land Ownership by Maria Relaki,Despina Catapoti Pdf

Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect means. Particularly noteworthy is the tendency to portray land ownership as the driving force behind the emergence of social complexity, a primordial ingredient in the processes that led to the political and economic expansion of prehistoric societies. The association between people and land in all of these interpretive schemata is however less easy to detect analytically. Although various rubrics have been employed to identify such a connection – most notable among them the concepts of ‘cultures,’ ‘regions,’ or even ‘households’ – they take the links between land and people as a given and not as something that needs to be conceptually defined and empirically substantiated. An Archaeology of Land Ownership demonstrates that the relationship between people and land in the past is first and foremost an analytical issue, and one that calls for clarification not only at the level of definition, but also methodological applicability. Bringing together an international roster of specialists, the essays in this volume call attention to the processes by which links to land are established, the various forms that such links take and how they can change through time, as well as their importance in helping to forge or dilute an understanding of community at various circumstances.

Author : Gloria L. Gallardo Fernandez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351765473

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Communal Land Ownership in Chile by Gloria L. Gallardo Fernandez Pdf

This title was first published in 2002. While capitalism continues to convert former communal land into private property, communal ownership still exists throughout the world. By examining the agricultural communities of Chile's semi-arid Norte Chico region where the land commons are predominant, Gloria Gallardo Fernandez investigates the historical origins, emergence, socio-economic context and current development of this form of land tenure. The case study is contrasted with communal land areas in Mexico, South Africa, Switzerland and the UK, whose distinct historical and socio-politcal developments are also explored. This investigation documents almost four centuries, stemming from colonial archival sources, and thus fills the theoretical and empirical gap in the literature about this form of commons.

Author : Ayelet Ben-Yishai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190236854

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Common Precedents by Ayelet Ben-Yishai Pdf

Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, Common Precedents shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society. Enabling the recognition of the new and its assimilation as part of a continuous past, Ayelet Ben-Yishai argues that the binding force of precedent also functions as the binding element of an always shifting commonality, pulling it together in the face of rupture and dispersion. By appearing to bring the past seamlessly into the present, the form of legal precedent became vital to the preservation of a sense of commonality and continuity crucial to the common law and Victorian legal culture. But the impact of precedent extended beyond legal practices and institutions to the culture at large, and especially to its fiction. Ben-Yishai argues that understanding the structure of precedent also explains fictional form: how fictionality works, its epistemology, and the ways in which its commonalities are socially constructed, maintained, and reified.

Author : Zhao Jiaxiang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000807912

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The Development Trajectory of Eastern Societies and the Theories and Practices of Socialism by Zhao Jiaxiang Pdf

In the four volumes of The Development Trajectory of Eastern societies and the Theories and Practices of Socialism, the author re-examines Marx and Engels’ theories on the development trajectory of Eastern societies by integrating theoretical analysis of Marxist theories and an historical investigation of socialist revolution and socialist construction around the world. The collection challenges some predominant interpretations of Marx and Engels' historical materialism by focusing on that materialism, explaining the general laws of historical development and its particular trajectory in Eastern societies; discussing the attempts of the Russian Commune to avoid the torments of the capitalist system and tracing the victories and failures of the 100-year trajectory of socialism. The significance of Marx and Engels' socialist theories for contemporary social development in the Eastern societies is henceforth laid bare. The book will be a key reference for readers studying Marxism, Marxist philosophy and the history of philosophy.

Author : Zhao Jiaxiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000056679

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Historical Evolution of the Eastern Mode of Production by Zhao Jiaxiang Pdf

In the four volumes of The Development Trajectory of Eastern Societies and the Theories and Practices of Socialism, the author re-examines Marx and Engels’ theories on the development trajectory of Eastern societies by integrating theoretical analysis of Marxist theories and a historical investigation of socialist revolution and socialist construction around the world. This second volume focuses on Marx and Engels’ historical materialism, explains the general laws of historical development, and brings this to bear within the context of Eastern societies. The author notes that Marx and Engels’ historical materialism and its derivative theories on Eastern societies are compatible and interconnected. In addition, he reveals how Marx and Engels’ theory of the “Asiatic mode of production” plays an important part in the development trajectory of Eastern societies, and is closely related to their theory of “five social forms.” This volume is a key reference for readers who study and are interested in Marxism, Marxist philosophy, and the history of philosophy.

Author : Pieter Van den Broeck,Abid Mehmood,Angeliki Paidakaki,Constanza Parra
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788974288

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Social Innovation as Political Transformation by Pieter Van den Broeck,Abid Mehmood,Angeliki Paidakaki,Constanza Parra Pdf

This book is an introduction to the works of a collective of academics on social innovation and socio-political transformation. It offers a critique of the dominance of market-based logics and extractivism in the age of neoliberalism. Calling for systemic change, the authors invite the reader to engage in the analysis and practice of socially innovative initiatives and, by doing so, contribute to the co-construction of a sustainable, solidarity-based and regenerative society.

Author : Bonnie J. McCay,James M. Acheson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816512051

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The Question of the Commons by Bonnie J. McCay,James M. Acheson Pdf

This collection of eighteen original essays evaluates the use and misuse of common-property resources, taking as its starting point ecologist Garret Hardin's assertion in "The Tragedy of the Commons" that common property is doomed to overexploitation in any society. This book represents the first cross-cultural test of Hardin's argument and argues that, while tragedies of the commons do occur under some circumstances, local institutions have proven resilient and responsive to the problems of communal resource use.

Author : Noelle Plack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317163725

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Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution by Noelle Plack Pdf

Recent revisionist history has questioned the degree of social and economic change attributable to the French Revolution. Some historians have also claimed that the Revolution was primarily an urban affair with little relevance to the rural masses. This book tests these ideas by examining the Revolutionary, Napoleonic and Restoration attempts to transform the tenure of communal land in one region of southern France; the department of the Gard. By analysing the results of the legislative attempts to privatize common land, this study highlights how the Revolution's agrarian policy profoundly affected French rural society and the economy. Not only did some members of the rural community, mainly small-holding peasants, increase their land holdings, but certain sectors of agriculture were also transformed; these findings shed light on the growth in viticulture in the south of France before the monocultural revolution of the 1850s. The privatization of common land, alongside the abolition of feudalism and the transformation of judicial institutions, were key aspects of the Revolution in the countryside. This detailed study demonstrates that the legislative process was not a top-down procedure, but an interaction between a state and its citizens. It is an important contribution to the new social history of the French Revolution and will appeal to economic and social historians, as well as historical geographers.

Author : Ulla Secher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782253778

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Aboriginal Customary Law: A Source of Common Law Title to Land by Ulla Secher Pdf

Described as 'ground-breaking' in Kent McNeil's Foreword, this book develops an alternative approach to conventional Aboriginal title doctrine. It explains that aboriginal customary law can be a source of common law title to land in former British colonies, whether they were acquired by settlement or by conquest or cession from another colonising power. The doctrine of Common Law Aboriginal Customary Title provides a coherent approach to the source, content, proof and protection of Aboriginal land rights which overcomes problems arising from the law as currently understood and leads to more just results. The doctrine's applicability in Australia, Canada and South Africa is specifically demonstrated. While the jurisprudential underpinnings for the doctrine are consistent with fundamental common law principles, the author explains that the Australian High Court's decision in Mabo provides a broader basis for the doctrine: a broader basis which is consistent with a re-evaluation of case-law from former British colonies in Africa, as well as from the United States, New Zealand and Canada. In this context, the book proffers a reconceptualisation of the Crown's title to land in former colonies and a reassessment of conventional doctrines, including the doctrine of tenure and the doctrine of continuity. 'With rare exceptions ... the existing literature does not probe as deeply or question fundamental assumptions as thoroughly as Dr Secher does in her research. She goes to the root of the conceptual problems around the legal nature of Indigenous land rights and their vulnerability to extinguishment in the former colonial empire of the Crown. This book is a formidable contribution that I expect will be influential in shifting legal thinking on Indigenous land rights in progressive new directions.' From the Foreword by Professor Kent McNeil (to read the Foreword please click on the 'sample chapter' link).

Author : John Cole Lowber,Thomas Sergeant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B5064113

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by John Cole Lowber,Thomas Sergeant Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Courts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063125541

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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain. Courts Pdf

Author : Pieter Van den Broeck,Asiya Sadiq,Ide Hiergens,Monica Quintana Molina,Han Verschure,Frank Moulaert
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788973779

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Communities, Land and Social Innovation by Pieter Van den Broeck,Asiya Sadiq,Ide Hiergens,Monica Quintana Molina,Han Verschure,Frank Moulaert Pdf

This timely and thought-provoking book examines the contemporary struggle of communities over land ownership and use rights in rapidly urbanising areas, analysing 12 key case studies from across four continents. Contributions from an international team of researchers, policy analysts and experts explore both neoliberal urban development policies and socially innovative initiatives, providing a state-of-the-art reflection of the field and contributing to an agenda for future research, policy and practice.

Author : Ash Amin,Philip Howell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317375371

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Releasing the Commons by Ash Amin,Philip Howell Pdf

This book moves beyond seeing the commons in the past tense, an entity passed over from the public into the private, to reimagine the commons as a process, a contest of force, a reconstitution, and a site of convening practices. It highlights new spaces of gathering opening up, such as the digital commons, and new practices of being in common, such as community economies and solidarity networks. The commons is seen as a contested domain of the collective and as a changing way of being in common, with the balance poised in the tensile play between political economy and social innovation. The book focuses on the possibility of recovering a future in which more can be held by the many, focusing on three concepts: nation and nature as a commons, publics and rights, and bodies, concerning the management of lives and livelihoods. Across these three passage points, the book finds evidence of a commons under attack but also defended in fragile though promising ways. With contributions from leading scholars, this thought provoking book will be of great interest to students and scholars in geography, environmental studies, politics, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Author : E.C.K. Gonner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136234248

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Common Land and Inclosure by E.C.K. Gonner Pdf

First published in 1966. The main object of the present work is to trace the process whereby the land of this country came into agricultural use under full individual control. That movement, as will be seen, is treated as continuous and as due in the main to the operation of large economic and, so to say, normal causes. While the rapidity and extent of inclosure varies from time to time, and while its kind undergoes certain changes, progress continues.