When Things Become Property

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

• List of Abreviations Preface Introduction: Turning things into property PART I: AGRICULTURE: NEGOTIATING PROPERTY AND VALUE 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 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 Bibliography Index

"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