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

by Stefan Dorondel, Johannes Stahl, Phuc Xuan To, et al.

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785334514
• ISBN13: 9781785334511
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"