When Things Become Property (eBook)

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.

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

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.

Phuc Xuan To is Research Fellow at Resources, Environment and Development Group of Crawford School of Public Policy, at the Australian National University.

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