Between commodity and community. A global and comparative research into communal land rights transformation in the Andes, 19th and 20th centuries. Ghent University
This research seeks to gain a better historical understanding of the coexistence of communal land systems with processes of global land commodification through which land access and control is standardized into absolute private property rights. After 500 years of historical capitalism, an estimated 65% of the world’s land area continues to be managed under customary communitybased tenure regimes, but their strength and forms vary widely ...