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Showing posts with label Rural History. Show all posts

18 October 2015

BOOK: "Ruralités Des terres, des dieux et des hommes Hommage à Jean Tricard" Jacqueline Hoareau-Dodinau (edit.) ( Limoges, 2015)


Jacqueline Hoareau-Dodinau (edit.), Ruralités Des terres, des dieux et des hommes Hommage à Jean Tricard

Presentation 
Au-delà du « pauvre pays » limousin qui était le sien, ce volume dédié à Jean Tricard s’attache à évoquer de multiples ruralités, dans le temps et dans l’espace depuis les réformes de Solon jusqu’aux politiques européennes, du Limousin à la France, de la Grèce antique aux sociétés traditionnelles d’Afrique noire ou d’Afrique du Nord ou encore à la Cochinchine du gouvernement des amiraux.Le monde rural qui traditionnellement unit étroitement les hommes et les dieux, compose une société humaine attachée à un territoire qui concentre toutes les activités économiques, sociales et religieuses pour lesquelles la question de la terre, de son exploitation, de son appropriation est une préoccupation constante. C’est un univers ambigu que certains se plaisent à décrire de manière négative, comme replié sur lui-même, ignorant, violent, conservateur, hostile au progrès là ou d’autres voient un monde idyllique de simplicité, de travail, d’authenticité, ouvert au monde et accessible aux idées nouvelles.

Les études présentées dans cet ouvrage s’attachent à montrer toute la diversité d’un monde, qui loin de disparaître comme certains l’avaient pronostiqué, connaît une évolution constante entre urbanisation de la ruralité et ruralisation de l’urbain ; un monde où la terre joue toujours un rôle fondateur.

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29 March 2015

CFP: "Old and new worlds: the Global Challenges of Rural History" ( Lisbon, January 27-30 2016)


WHAT: Old and new worlds: the Global Challenges of Rural History, international conference

WHEN: January 27-30 2016

WHERE: Lisbon, ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon

Deadline for submission of proposals: 15 April 2015
All information here
In the course of recent years, Rural History (broadly defined) has begun to move away from both its predominantly national or local focus and its interpretation bias towards Europe and the Western world. This is a very healthy shift, which we mean to uphold by choosing the relations between old and new worlds as the core subject for this Conference.
Such relations between civilisations and cultures across the globe have had multiple effects over the last 500 years on agriculture, property, natural resources and rural societies. They brought about the circulation of people, plants, animals and diseases; transfers of techniques, knowledge, institutions and juridical norms; changes in diet habits, land uses and landscapes; extensive appropriation and expropriation of landholding, land use and property rights; and changes in produce and factor markets (land, capital, labour) at a global scale.

13 November 2014

CONFERENCE & CFP: "Old and New Worlds: The Global Challenges of Rural History,” (Lisbon, 28-30 January 2016)


WHAT: Old and New Worlds: The Global Challenges of Rural History, Conference and Call for Panels 

WHERE:  ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

WHEN: 28-30 January 2016

all information here


Over the last 500 years, the inter-relations between civilisations and cultures across the globe have had multiple effects on agriculture, property, natural resources and rural societies. They brought about the circulation of people, plants, animals and diseases; transfers of techniques, knowledge, institutions and legal norms; changes in diet habits, land uses and landscapes; extensive appropriation and expropriation of property rights; and changes in produce and factor markets (land, capital, labour) at a global scale.
Research on these topics has been attracting scholars with a variety of backgrounds, from environmental to cultural history, from social to legal history, from economic history to the history of science, among others.
The concern to open up and globalise the research in rural history, both historically and historiographically, draws the guideline for this international conference. It is intended to be a forum where to present new findings and new perspectives on any aspect of those global dynamics, and where to discuss the major theoretical, methodological and historiographical challenges now facing rural history.
This call for panels (open to scholars of all nationalities, disciplinary areas and historical periods) has been extended until 25 November 2014.  See the full CFP and more info on the conference website.  The conference email is lisbon2016rh@gmail.com.