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Social vulnerability, social structures and household grain shortages in sixteenth-century inland Flanders
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Author
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Abstract
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| ‘Vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’ have recently become hot topics in historiography. The main focus is on systemic vulnerability: the reasons why certain societies were better able to overcome crisis. In this article I want to address another type of vulnerability – inspired by the insights of Wisner and Blaikie: social vulnerability, and the differentiated impact of crisis on different social groups. Based on a unique corpus of sources – the grain censuses drafted during the grain crisis of 1556/57 – and a reconstruction of household budgets, I will reconstruct vulnerable groups, the root causes behind their vulnerability, and their coping mechanisms. By doing this I will show how systemic resilience could go hand-in-hand with vulnerable people, thus adding more depth to a growing research strand. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Continuity and change : a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies. - Cambridge, 1986, currens
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Publication
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Cambridge
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2019
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ISSN
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0268-4160
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1469-218X
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DOI
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10.1017/S0268416019000109
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Volume/pages
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34
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(2019)
, p. 91-115
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ISI
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000482296000005
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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