Changing Properties of Property -

Changing Properties of Property

Buch | Hardcover
376 Seiten
2006
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-84545-139-4 (ISBN)
119,75 inkl. MwSt
Focusing on debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this book provides theoretical material on property systems, as well as case studies of the dynamics of property transformations.
As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically grounded case studies of the dynamics of property transformations. The property claimants discussed in these papers represent a diverse range of actors, including post-socialist states and their citizens, those receiving restitution for past property losses in Africa, Southeast Asia and in eastern Europe, collectives, corporate and individual actors. The volume thus provides a comprehensive anthropological analysis not only of property structures and ideologies, but also of property (and its politics) in action.

Franz von Benda-Beckmann is head of the project group "Legal Pluralism" at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology at Halle, Germany. He is professor for law in developing countries at Wageningen University, the Netherlands and honorary professor at the University of Leipzig. His research in Malawi and Indonesia focuses property and inheritance, social security, decentralization and legal anthropological theory.

List of Maps, Figures and Tables



Chapter 1. The Properties of Property

Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Melanie G. Wiber



Chapter 2. Ownership in Stateless Places

Charles Geisler



Chapter 3. The Romance of Privatisation and Its Unheralded Challengers: Case Studies from English, Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet History

Esther Kingston-Mann



Chapter 4. Beyond Embeddedness: A Challenge Raised by a Comparison of the Struggles Over Land in African and Post-socialist Countries

Pauline E. Peters



Chapter 5. Land as Asset, Land as Liability: Property Politics in Rural Central and Eastern Europe

Thomas Sikor



Chapter 6. Property, Labour Relations and Social Obligations in Russia’s Privatised Farm Enterprises

Oane Visser



Chapter 7. Cooperative Property at the Limit

John R. Eidson



Chapter 8. Who Owns the Fisheries? Changing Views of Property and Its Redistribution in Post-colonial Maori Society

Toon van Meijl



Chapter 9. How Communal is Communal and Whose Communal is It? Lessons from Minangkabau

Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann



Chapter 10. Moving Borders and Invisible Boundaries: A Force Field Approach to Property Relations in the Commons of a Mexican

Ejido Monique Nuijten and David Lorenzo



Chapter 11. ‘The Tragedy of the Private’: Owners, Communities and the State in South Africa’s Land Reform Programme

Deborah James



Chapter 12. The Folk Conceptualisation of Property and Forest-related Going Concerns in Madagascar

Frank Muttenzer



Chapter 13. Property Rights, Water and Conflict in the Western U.S.

Edella Schlager



Chapter 14. Appropriating Family Trees: Genealogies in the Age of Genetics

Gísli Pálsson



Chapter 15. Cultural Property, Repatriation and Relative Publics: Which Public? Whose Culture?

Melanie G. Wiber



Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.5.2006
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 703 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10 1-84545-139-2 / 1845451392
ISBN-13 978-1-84545-139-4 / 9781845451394
Zustand Neuware
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