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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