When Things Become Property : : Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia / / Thomas Sikor, Stefan Dorondel, Johannes Stahl, Phuc Xuan To.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Sikor, Thomas,; Dorondel, Stefan,; Stahl, Johannes,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Introduction: Turning Things into Property -- PART I AGRICULTURE Negotiating Property and Value -- Introduction -- 1 Transnational Migration, Ethnicity, and Property in Albania -- 2 Livelihood Traditions, Worker-Peasants, and Peasant Entrepreneurs in Romania -- 3 Modernity, Fantasies, and Property in Vietnam -- PART II FORESTS Contesting Property and Authority -- Introduction -- 4 Forests, State, and Custom in Albania -- 5 Property, Predators, and Patrons in Romania -- 6 Land Allocation, Loggers, and Lawmakers in Vietnam -- Conclusion: Postsocialist Propertizing and the Dynamics of Property -- Index