Description: Vanishing Hectare : Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania, Hardcover by Verdery, Katherine, ISBN 0801441978, ISBN-13 9780801441974, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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 Verderys 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.
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 Verderys 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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Book Title: Vanishing Hectare : Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2003
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Economic History, Europe / Eastern, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Sociology / Rural
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 32 Oz
Author: Katherine Verdery
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: Culture and Society after Socialism Ser.
Format: Hardcover
