When Things Become Property: Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia Contributor(s): Sikor, Thomas (Author), Dorondel, Stefan (Author), Stahl, Johannes (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785335588 ISBN-13: 9781785335587 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Law | Property - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
Dewey: 333.315 |
LCCN: 2016054889 |
Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy |
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 250 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. Sikor, Thomas: -Thomas Sikor was Professor of Environment and Development at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. 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. |