Land and the Mortgage

History, Culture, Belonging

Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Parker Shipton (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

324 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-348-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Daivi Rodima-Taylor is Researcher and Lecturer at the African Studies Center of the Pardee School of Global Studies of Boston University. She has conducted longitudinal field research in East Africa, and co-edited special issues of numerous journals. Her work has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

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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

Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2022
Reihe/Serie	The Human Economy
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-348-8 / 1800733488
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-348-0 / 9781800733480
Zustand	Neuware