Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/SEC.34.10
Hogs, Pannage, and Common Good: Notes on Solidarity in Land Communities (Summary)
Olga Orlić
Nataša Bokan
Abstract
This paper analyzes ways of (not) practicing solidary and cooperative behaviour in rural economies, especially in agricultural land relations in Croatia in the early 20th century. The first part of the paper, following the theoretical framework related to solidarity economy and solidarity and reciprocity in general, presents data on various aspects of rural solidarity and reciprocity collected in studies of early ethnographers and related rural researchers. The second part of the paper focuses on the analysis of (un)solidary behaviour in the land community Demerje based on an example from the first half of the 20th century. The analysis was conducted on archival material consisting of one land community’s assembly minutes, especially the ones from 1925. Land communities were a special legal form of common lands’ usage that emerged after the abolition of feudal relations and existed on the territory of Croatia until 1947. All the issues related to (non)solidarity during the management of common goods reflected clearly on the seemingly banal economic activity of feeding pigs with acorns. This regular economic activity which provided income for the land community had resulted in bureaucratized disputes in the land community's management process that allowed us to identify connections between an ambiguous conceptualization of solidarity and common good, both now and then. This is especially true for relations between land community beneficiaries of different economic standings.
Keywords
solidarity economy; common pool resources; common good; pennage; land communities
Hrčak ID:
288360
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2022.
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