The Long Land War / Jo Guldi
Jun 14 2023
I think it is so vital right now that we embrace the utopianism that was present in the 1940s and 1950s with land redistribution and use it as a way to guide us in this moment when we have a lot of grassroots voices saying we are in trouble. There is a gun to our head, and yet we seem to be in a moment of paralysis, institutional paralyzes where little seems to shift.
Historian Jo Guldi joins us to discuss her Boston Review article, "The Earth for Man: Redistributing land was once central to global development efforts---and it should be today." This article is adapted from her 2022 book from Yale University Press, The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights. Her new book, The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History (2023), is available for pre-order now.
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Jo Guldi
Jo Guldi is Professor of Quantitative Methods at Emory. She is a data scientist, writer, historian. Her newest books are The Long Land War (2022) from Yale University Press and the forthcoming The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History (2023), available for pre-order now.
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