The Moral Economy of the Countryside

Faith, Rosamond

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“…Scott (1976, 55) highlighted the key role played by colonial law and policy in making peasant existence more precarious, including through taxation ( 92), and legally enabled dispossession and enclosure (62-3). 27 For example, Faith (2019), writing of twelfth-century England, argues that force, and new legal approaches to property, resulted in greater appropriation of peasant labor, overriding the limits to the extractive power of Lords that had been embedded in the previous moral economy. Calder (1999) framed the US controversy over usury laws in the late nineteenth century as part of the repudiation of moral economy thinking (see Herrine 2021, 466).…”

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“…;Edelman 2012;Faith 2019;Feinig 2020;Paul 2021;Herrine 2021), I extend the term "moral economy" beyond the English food riots of the 1700s, while seeking to delimit it such that it does not refer, too loosely, to all morally or culturally inflected debates about money, or to all riots. 14 Traditional expectations of fair prices in relation to food subsistence may have been rendered obsolete as Thompson suggests, but new customary entitlements emerged, sometimes echoing those expectations, sometimes drawing on other frameworks.…”

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Gambling in the Moral Economy: A Case Study of Law and Regulation in a Pandemic

Bedford¹

2022

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This article adapts the concept of the moral economy and applies that adapted concept to UK gambling regulation during the early years (2020-21) of the COVID-19 pandemic. I extend the moral economy concept beyond the eighteenth-century English food riot, and beyond food staples. I also examine the role of law and regulation in the moral economy and highlight charity's importance to moral economy debates. I then consider gambling through a moral economy lens by exploring the pandemic-era regulation of horserace betting, lotteries, and bingo. I show that gambling in some forms (horserace betting and lotteries) was important to pandemic recovery projects and to spectacles of national coming together. Via lotteries, for example, the state sought to adjust customary expectations about the role of volunteers in providing essential services. Although regulators generally ignored bingo, there was a pandemic resurgence in self-organized games that is especially significant for work on the moral economy. I conclude by identifying some broader implications of this study, including on how essentiality is legally constructed, and on charity and volunteering within the moral economy.

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Gambling in the Moral Economy: A Case Study of Law and Regulation in a Pandemic

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2022

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“…Sometimes, these forms of social promotion and economic prosperity are consolidated over different generations, but this is not always the case. The success or failure depends to a large extent on the existence of different forms of social practice that limit the increasing social inequality (Clastres, 1978) and the relevance of moral economy practices within these village communities (Faith, 2019).…”

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Filling the gap: Peasant Studies and the archaeology of medieval peasantry in light of the Northern Iberian evidence

Castillo

Tejerizo-García

2020

Journal of Agrarian Change

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A new archaeology of peasantry has emerged in Europe in the last few decades in the context of development‐led rescue excavations. As a result, new lines of inquiry, usually unconnected with other traditions of Peasant Studies, have been proposed. The main aim of this paper is to propose forms of interaction between current sociological and anthropological perspectives (Peasant Studies) and an archaeologically informed social history approach (Peasant Archaeology) in order to enrich the analysis of peasant societies, both in the past and the present. Moreover, challenging traditional approaches in historical and archaeological studies that see peasantry as a passive, subaltern, homogeneous class, avenues for a relational agency of peasantry considering archaeological records from medieval Iberia are considered.

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Early Medieval Property Transfers in Favour of the Church Between Religion and Economy

Quaas

2023

Palgrave Studies in Economic History

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The Moral Economy of the Countryside

Cited by 7 publications

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Gambling in the Moral Economy: A Case Study of Law and Regulation in a Pandemic

Gambling in the Moral Economy: A Case Study of Law and Regulation in a Pandemic

Filling the gap: Peasant Studies and the archaeology of medieval peasantry in light of the Northern Iberian evidence

Early Medieval Property Transfers in Favour of the Church Between Religion and Economy

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