Changing properties of property. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beekman and Melanie G. Wiber.
• Other Names: Benda-Beckmann, Franz von; Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von; Wiber, Melanie, 1954-
• Contents: The properties of property / Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, and Melanie G. Wiber -- Ownership in stateless places / Charles Geisler -- The romance of privatisation and its unheralded challengers : case studies from English, Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet history / Esther Kingston-Mann -- Beyond embeddedness : a challenge raised by a comparison of the struggles over land in African and post-socialist countries / Pauline E. Peters -- Land as asset, land as liability : property politics in rural Central and Eastern Europe / Thomas Sikor -- Property, labour relations and social obligations in Russia's privatised farm enterprises / Oane Visser -- Cooperative property as the limit / John R. Eidson -- Who owns the fisheries? : changing views of property and its redistribution in post-colonial Maori society / Toon van Meijl -- How communal is communal and whose communal is it? : lessons from Minangkabau / Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann -- Moving borders and invisible boundaries : a force field approach to property relations in the commons of a Mexican ejido / Monique Nuijten and David Loranzo -- 'The tragedy of the private' : owners, communities and the state in South Africa's land reform programme / Deborah James -- The fold conceptualization of property and forest-related going concerns in Madagascar / Frank Muttenzer -- Property rights, water and conflict in the western U.S. / Edella Schlager -- Appropriating family trees : genealogies in the age of genetics / Gísli Pálsson -- Cultural property, repatriation and relative publics : which public? Whose culture? / Melanie G. Wiber.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (376 pages)
• Subjects: 330.17; Property; Right of property; Commons; Resource allocation -- Decision making; Culture and law; Commons; Culture and law; Property; Resource allocation -- Decision making; Right of property
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857455284; 0857455281
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.