ISBN:
9781800733497
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (324 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
The Human Economy 9
Abstract:
The mortgaging of land is not just economic and legal but also social and cultural. Here, anthropologists, historians, and economists explore origins, variations, and meanings of the land mortgage, and the risks to homes and livelihoods. Combining findings from archives, printed records, and live ethnography, the book describes the changing and problematic assumptions surrounding mortgage. It shows how mortgages affect people on the ground, where local forms of mutuality mix with larger bureaucracies. The outcomes of mortgage in Africa, Europe, Asia, and America challenge economic development orthodoxies, calling for a human-centered exploration of this age-old institution
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Keith Hart -- Introduction. Land, Finance, Technology: Perspectives on Mortgage Lending -- Daivi Rodima-Taylor -- PART I: SITUATING LAND MORTGAGE IN TIME AND SPACE -- Chapter 1. The Glittering Mortgage, the Vanishing Farm: Enticement, Entrustment, Entrapment -- Parker Shipton -- Chapter 2. A Brief Legal and Social History of Mortgage -- David J. Seipp -- Chapter 3. Land Tenure: From Fiscal Origins to Financialization -- Michael Hudson -- Part II: Mortgage as Cultural Export: Land, Family, and the State -- Chapter 4. Inheriting Debt: Legal Pluralism, Family Politics, and the Meaning of Wealth in Ghana -- Sara Berry -- Chapter 5. Tales of Mortgage, Risk, and Taxation in Rural Senegal -- Kristine Juul -- Chapter 6. Signs of Trouble: Land, Loans, and Investments in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda -- Mette Lind Kusk and Lotte Meinert -- Part III: Old Rules and New Twists: Reinventing and Resisting Land Financialization -- Chapter 7. Reinventing Land Mortgage in Post-Socialist Europe: The Romanian Case -- Stefan Dorondel, Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Marioara Rusu -- Chapter 8. Distressed Publics: Circumventing the Mortgage from South Africa to Ireland -- Nate Coben and Melissa K. Wrapp -- Chapter 9. Governing the Old City: Land Records, Digitization, and Liquidity in Lahore -- Tariq Rahman -- Part IV: Coming Full Circle: Hopes, Ideologies, and Life on the Ground -- Chapter 10. Mortgage Credit as an Instrument of Economic Growth in Colonial Massachusetts, 1642-1777 -- Winifred B. Rothenberg -- Chapter 11. When Land Takes Wing: The Concentration of Holdings and the Human-Animal Dimension -- Parker Shipton -- Conclusion: Envoi -- Parker Shipton -- Index
Note:
Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly
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