In September, 2011, Thomas Håkansson and I convened an international workshop at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala to discuss the concept of landesque capital with the purpose of developing a book on the concept. The book is now in press at Left Coast Press. It has been a great time reading and editing all the intellectually challenging articles from this very committed group of scholars. In the introductory chapter we argue for the strength and usefulness of the concept of landesque capital. But this book also highlights some of the challenges and creative tensions of the concept as it is presently used. In sum the articles show that the concept of landesque capital opens up exciting possibilities for a comparative social science of past, present and future environments.
Here is the content:
Mats Widgren and Thomas Håkansson
Chapter 2. Economics and the Process of Making Farmland
William E. Doolittle
Chapter 3. Capital-esque Landscapes: Long-Term Histories of Enduring Landscape Modifications
Kathleen D. Morrison
Chapter 4. Taro Terraces, Chiefdoms and Malaria: Explaining Landesque Capital Formation in Solomon Islands
Tim Bayliss-Smith and Edvard Hviding
Chapter 5. World Systems Terraces: External Exchange and the Formation of Landesque Capital among the Ifugao, the Philippines
N. Thomas Håkansson
Chapter 6. Large scale Investments in Water Management in Europe and China, 1000-1800
Janken Myrdal
Chapter 7. Stonescape: Farmers’ Differential Willingness for Investment in Landesque Capital
Henrik Svensson
Chapter 8. The Social Life of Landesque Capital and a Tanzanian Case Study
Michael Sheridan
Chapter 9. The Temporality of Landesque Capital: Cultivation and the Routines of Pokot Life
Matthew I.J. Davies
Chapter 10. Irrigated Fields Are Wives: Indigenous Irrigation in Marakwet, Kenya
Wilhelm Östberg
Chapter 11. Correlating Landesque Capital and Ethno-political Integration in Pre-Columbian South America
Alf Hornborg, Love Eriksen and Ragnheiður Bogadóttir
Chapter 12. From Terraces to Trees: Ancient and Historical Landscape Changes in Southern Peru
Gregory Zaro
Chapter 13. The Antithesis to Degraded Land: Towards a Greener Conceptualization of Landesque Capital
Lowe Börjeson
Chapter 14. The Future of Landesque Capital
Tim Bayliss-Smith
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