Land and the Mortgage

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