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Enclosure has long been linked to industrialization as part of a series of material and technical changes in farming which increased supply, enabling industrial development. This chapter argues that we need to move beyond a consideration of supply-and-demand and to see enclosure as a more-than-material process. Through enclosure, the land is privatized and the commons are diminished. Physical change to the landscape is tied to a transformation of the dynamics of power exercised over and through the land. Once this is appreciated, enclosure is evidently both a historical process and a live one. As a still-active process denying people citizenship in the land, enclosure is one of the most important problems addressed by archaeologists of modern society. This argument is developed both in general terms and through the particular case of Britain and, especially Scotland, where the history of enclosure is entangled with the present-day politics of land rights. |
