From miltont@efn.org Fri Jul 27 16:58:34 2001 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f6RNwX007848 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:58:33 -0700 Received: from clavin.efn.org (root@clavin.efn.org [206.163.176.10]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f6RNwXK21516 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:58:33 -0700 Received: from garcia.efn.org (miltont@garcia.efn.org [206.163.176.5]) by clavin.efn.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f6RNwWK15463 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:58:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (miltont@localhost) by garcia.efn.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f6RNwVG23142 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:58:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: garcia.efn.org: miltont owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:58:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Milton Takei To: Indknow Subject: Call for papers Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To indknow subscribers: I thought that some of you would be interested in the message below. --Milton Takei ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:43:43 -0700 From: James Hess Reply-To: Ecol/Env Anthropology To: EANTH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: EH.N: EHN: CfP: XIII Congress of the IEHA "Ethno-Nationality, Property Rights in Land and Territorial Sovereignty in Historical Perspective," (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:51:38 EDT From: Jacob Metzer Reply-To: eh.news@eh.net To: eh.news@eh.net Subject: EH.N: EHN: CfP: XIII Congress of the IEHA "Ethno-Nationality, Property Rights in Land and Territorial Sovereignty in Historical Perspective," ----------------- EH.NEWS POSTING ----------------- Stanley Engerman and Jacob Metzer will organize a session in the 13th World Congress of the International Economic History Association, Buenos Aires, July 22 - July 26, 2002, on the subject of: Ethno-Nationality, Property Rights in Land and Territorial Sovereignty in Historical Perspective Land, a primary factor of production, has not only been a major component of economic, political, and social aspects of human life across time and space, but it has also played an important cultural and religious role. The different mechanisms that have been utilized to distribute land among people (by custom, authoritative discretion, sheer force, laws and regulations, and/or market forces) have been instrumental in shaping human territoriality, and have been important in the formation of collective identities and the nature of ethno-national entities. The close relations between ethno-nationality and territory in history involve, quite naturally, the nexus between property rights in land and the exclusiveness of ownership imposed by the state - the notion of territorial sovereignty. A number of issues are of interest, among them: the structure and functioning of land markets in which the participation of "others" (ethno-nationally, religiously, or otherwise identified) has been effectively restricted (or barred altogether); the political and economic underpinning of such constraints and their variety and change over time; and the implications of ethno-nationally restricted land markets for the allocation of resources, income distribution, and growth, in the societies concerned. The history of colonialism and of many of the ethno-nationally (and/or religiously) divided "old" and "new" states provides a rich "laboratory" for illuminating these and related issues concerning the formation, modi operandi, and consequences of ethno-natinally affected land regimes in history and their relationship to the concept of territorial sovereignty. These issues will be explored in our session which is intended to be a forum for the presentation and critical discussion of case studies, as well as of comparative investigations, based on a broad range of experiences. We have already secured a number of commitments to present papers on Aborigines' landed property rights and sovereignty in North America; land ownership issues in South Africa, Russia, Fiji and Hawaii; the land question in Palestine-Israel; and the attempts to change the ethno-national mix of land ownership and settlement in late 19th century Prussian Poland. We are still looking for additional proposals, particularly on Europe (Yugoslavia for instance), the Dutch empire, Latin America, Australia, and the Middle East. Those interested should send an abstract of their proposed paper no later than by Sept.1st, 2001. to: Stanley Engerman Department of Economics PO Box 270156 Harkness Hall, Room 238 University of Rochester Rochester NY 14627-0156 USA. E-mail: enge@troi.cc.rochester.edu Fax.: 1-716-2562309 or to: Jacob Metzer Department of Economics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905 Israel E-mail: msmetzer@mscc.huji.ac.il Fax.: 972-2-5816071 -- ------------ FOOTER TO EH.NEWS POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info EH.NEWS" to lists@eh.net .