Calendrier du 05 juin 2019
Development Economics Seminar
Du 05/06/2019 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle R2.21, Campus Jourdan - 48 boulevard Jourdan, Paris 14ème
BLOUIN Arthur (University of Toronto)
Culture and Contracts: The Historical Legacy of Forced Labour
Inter-ethnic attitudes between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda and Burundi are associated with differences in the historical subjugation of the Hutu to forced labour by the Tutsi. Analysis using data combining lab-in-the field trust games with survey, land characteristics, and archival data suggest that Hutu with a family history of forced labour are less trusting of Tutsi today and prefer to partner with other Hutu. Because Hutu are more agrarian and Tutsi are more pastoral, this has implications for agriculture insurance agreements. The evidence suggests that the Hutu with a family history of forced labour are more likely to make agreements with other Hutu, whose agricultural shocks are more correlated with their own, and as a result they experience more default in these agreements.
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Economic History Seminar
Du 05/06/2019 de 12:30 à 14:00
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan 48 Bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
ZALC Claire (CNRS/EHESS)
The Lubartworld project: methodological challenges of the reconstruction of 3000 persecution trajectories over the world 1920’s-1950’s.
The paper will present the Lubartworld project which aims to reconstruct the trajectories of a group of Polish Jews from the 1920s to the early 1950s, comparing the life-histories of both those who remained and those who emigrated to different regions, and examining the connections between these two groups. By doing so, it will address some theoretical issues: the dynamics of social structures of a group of persecuted victims across time and place and the variability of discriminatory categorization in diverse national and political contexts. But it also addresses important methodological challenges linked to the application of the prosopographic method in a transnational way. What are the assets and difficulties of such quantitative approaches to persecution trajectories?
This approach can explore the determining factors (social, gender-related, economic, political, family, and relational) in the trajectories of individuals. Who fled? When? To where? With whom? Who survived and who didn’t? What role did the socio-economic status, the gender, the size of the family, the degree of religiosity, or the political activity play in the diverse reactions to persecution? How is it possible to explain the migratory directions (internal or external) among the Lubartow Jews who fled? Who are those who migrated overseas and those who didn't?
This paper aims to present the empirical means for reflecting on the effects interpersonal networks had on the behavior of the victims of persecution.