ABSTRACT

Mats Widgren has demonstrated the usefulness of the concept of landesque capital in political ecology and for understanding investment in the landscape throughout history. Widgren distinguishes between financial and landesque capital in that the former exists here and now at a given time, but can be moved in space, whereas the latter is fluid in time but fixed in space. The surveyed village was selected bearing in mind that it should be possible to track different types of landesque capital investments in at least two large-scale maps at the time of the agrarian revolution. The agrarian sector's long-term role in society can be said to be essential for investment in agriculture, though not a sufficient factor in itself. The factors that have actually led to landesque investments are more diverse, with connections to major economic geographic contexts as well as to local socioeconomic conditions.