When Things Become Property

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