Frontmatter
Contents
List of Maps, Figures and Tables
Chapter 1 The Properties of Property
Chapter 2 Ownership in Stateless Places
Chapter 3 The Romance of Privatisation and its Unheralded Challengers: Case Studies from English, Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet History
Chapter 4 Beyond Embeddedness: a Challenge Raised by a Comparison of the Struggles Over Land in African and Post-socialist Countries
Chapter 5 Land as Asset, Land as Liability: Property Politics in Rural Central and Eastern Europe
Chapter 6 Property, Labour Relations and Social Obligations in Russia's Privatised Farm Enterprises
Chapter 7 Cooperative Property at the Limit
Chapter 8 Who Owns the Fisheries? Changing Views of Property and Its Redistribution in Post-colonial Maori Society
Chapter 9 How Communal is Communal and Whose Communal is It? Lessons from Minangkabau
Chapter 10 Moving Borders and Invisible Boundaries: a Force Field Approach to Property Relations in the Commons of a Mexican ejido
Chapter 11 'The Tragedy of the Private': Owners, Communities and the State in South Africa's Land Reform Programme
Chapter 12 The Folk Conceptualisation of Property and Forest-related Going Concerns in Madagascar
Chapter 13 Property Rights, Water and Conflict in the Western U.S.
Chapter 14 Appropriating Family Trees: Genealogies in the Age of Genetics
Chapter 15 Cultural Property, Repatriation and Relative Publics: Which Public? Whose Culture?
Notes on Contributors
Index