When Things Become Property : Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia - Thomas Sikor

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When Things Become Property

Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia

By: Thomas Sikor, Stefan Dorondel, Johannes Stahl, Phuc Xuan To

eBook | 21 April 2017 | Edition Number 1

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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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"I think this is an excellent book. The command of the empirical material allows the authors to drive home a series of points that have theoretical purchase far beyond the analyzed contexts. This is an exciting contribution to the understanding of major social transformations." · Christian Lund, University or Copenhagen

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