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The Vanishing Hectare - Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,501
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The Vanishing Hectare - Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania (Hardcover, New): Katherine Verdery

The Vanishing Hectare - Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania (Hardcover, New)

Katherine Verdery

Series: Culture and Society After Socialism

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In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, The Vanishing Hectare explores the importance of land and land ownership to the people of one Transylvanian community, Aurel Vlaicu. Verdery traces how collectivized land was transformed into private property, how land was valued, what the new owners were able to do with it, and what it signified to each of the different groups vying for land rights.

Verdery tells this story about transforming socialist property forms in a global context, showing the fruitfulness of conceptualizing property as a political symbol, as a complex of social relations among people and things, and as a process of assigning value. This book is a window on rural life after socialism but it also provides a framework for assessing the neo-liberal economic policies that have prevailed elsewhere, such as in Latin America. Verdery shows how the trajectory of property after socialism was deeply conditioned by the forms property took in socialism itself; this is in contrast to the image of a "tabula rasa" that governed much thinking about post-socialist property reform.

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Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Culture and Society After Socialism
Release date: November 2003
First published: November 2003
Authors: Katherine Verdery
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-4197-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > General
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LSN: 0-8014-4197-8
Barcode: 9780801441974

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