When Things Become Property

Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia

Thomas Sikor, Stefan Dorondel, Johannes Stahl, Phuc Xuan To (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781785335587 (ISBN)

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Interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam.

Describes how property reforms are no longer miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	29.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	345 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
ISBN-13	9781785335587 / 9781785335587
Zustand	Neuware