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1 online resource |
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Max Planck studies in anthropology and economy ; 3 |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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<P>Preface<br />List of Acronyms</p><p><a href="/downloads/intros/SikorWhen_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><strong>Introduction: </strong>Turning things into property</a></p><p><strong>PART I: AGRICULTURE: NEGOTIATING PROPERTY AND VALUE</strong></p><p><strong>Introduction<br />Chapter 1.</strong> Transnational migration, ethnicity, and property in Albania<br /><strong>Chapter 2.</strong> Livelihood traditions, worker-peasants, and peasant entrepreneurs in Romania<br /><strong>Chapter 3.</strong> Modernity, fantasies, and property in Vietnam</p><p><strong>PART II: FORESTS: CONTESTING PROPERTY AND AUTHORITY</strong></p><p><strong>Introduction<br />Chapter 4.</strong> Forests, state, and custom in Albania<br /><strong>Chapter 5.</strong> Property, predators, and patrons in Romania<br /><strong>Chapter 6.</strong> Land allocation, loggers, and lawmakers in Vietnam</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Postsocialist propertizing and the dynamics of property</p><p>Index</p> |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Land reform -- Europe, Eastern
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Land reform -- Southeast Asia
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Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.
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Post-communism -- Southeast Asia
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Real property -- Europe, Eastern
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Real property -- Southeast Asia
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Land reform.
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Post-communism.
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Real property.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Eastern Europe.
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Southeast Asia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dorondel, Ștefan, 1968- author.
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Stahl, Johannes, author.
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To, Phuc Xuan, author.
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| ISBN |
1785334522 |
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9781785334528 |
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