Rural History conference, June 22 2022, Uppsala, Sweden,
European Rural History Organisation/Uppsala University/Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
https://www.ruralhistory2021.se/

The panel aimed at giving an opportunity to bring together historiographical studies of the land markets in the old regimes of Europe and Latin America, and ethnographic work on the same issue in customary systems of developing countries – notably in sub-Saharan Africa. The privileged angle of attack is the social construction of the land markets and their forms of social embeddeness (in the complementary perspectives offered by Karl Polanyi and Mark Granovetter). More broadly, the panel aims at exploring the issue of the emergence and transformation of land markets as part of the broader dynamics of the integration of rural societies into market economies.

15:00-15:30: The Emergence and Dynamics of Rural Land Transactions in West African Contexts
Jean-Philippe Colin

15:30-16:00: Land market within family groups. Effects and functioning of a land market embedded in kinship relations in Madagascar Highlands
Hadrien Di Roberto

16:00-16:30: Redeemable sales: from customary practices to their re-framing under state law. An ethno-historical perspective
Jean-Pierre Jacob & Eric Léonard

16:30-17:00: Between fantasy and reality. Indigenous participation in the land sales market within settled areas in Algeria (1877-1960)
Didier Guignard

Discussant: Juan Carmona