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The Commons Versatility in the Southwest of Spain

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Type: Conference Paper
Author: Linares, Antonio
Conference: Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons
Location: Cheltenham, England
Conf. Date: July 14-18, 2008
Date: 2008
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2379
Sector: General & Multiple Resources
History
Region: Europe
Subject(s): common pool resources
rural affairs
IASC
Abstract: "The main aim of this paper is to analyse, from a long run perspective, the evolution of collective property (communal and municipal lands) in Extremadura, a vast region located in the Southwest of Spain. In contrast to those authors who considers that consolidation of liberal state during the first decades of the 19th century was the main factor of dissolution of this kind of property in the country, my study reveals that the commons in this region were not unexplored and market-outside spaces on which the liberal reforms acted. But my work also shows that collective property in Extremadura neither was traditionally the jungle without law in which the worst instincts of rural society and, specially, the self interest of local oligarchy crystallized. Beyond abuse, the rustic patrimony of the villages of the region demonstrated to have, before Liberal Agrarian Reform, enough versatility for being, at the same time, source of economic growth, guarantee of social stability and ferment of economic inequality."

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