When Things Become Property

Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-558-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

Reihe: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy

Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, and finds that property reforms are no longer, if they ever were, miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sikor, Thomas

Dorondel, Stefan

Stahl, Johannes

To, Phuc Xuan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Acronyms

Introduction: Turning things into property

PART I: AGRICULTURE: NEGOTIATING PROPERTY AND VALUE

Introduction

Chapter 1. Transnational migration, ethnicity, and property in Albania

Chapter 2. Livelihood traditions, worker-peasants, and peasant entrepreneurs in Romania

Chapter 3. Modernity, fantasies, and property in Vietnam

PART II: FORESTS: CONTESTING PROPERTY AND AUTHORITY

Introduction

Chapter 4. Forests, state, and custom in Albania

Chapter 5. Property, predators, and patrons in Romania

Chapter 6. Land allocation, loggers, and lawmakers in Vietnam

Conclusion: Postsocialist propertizing and the dynamics of property

Index

Über Autor(innen)

To, Phuc Xuan
Phuc Xuan To is Research Fellow at Resources, Environment and Development Group of Crawford School of Public Policy, at the Australian National University.

Sikor, Thomas
Thomas Sikor was Professor of Environment and Development at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.

Stahl, Johannes
Johannes Stahl, former Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy at the University of California at Berkeley, now works for a multilateral environmental agreement dealing with trade in endangered species of fauna and flora.

Dorondel, Stefan
Stefan Dorondel is Senior Researcher at the Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest and is affiliated with the Institute for Southeast European Studies Bucharest.

Thomas Sikor was Professor of Environment and Development at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.