When Things Become Property : : Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia / / Thomas Sikor, Stefan Dorondel, Johannes Stahl, Phuc Xuan To.
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....
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
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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