Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps, Figures and Tables vii
4. Chapter 1 The Properties of Property 1
5. Chapter 2 Ownership in Stateless Places 40
6. Chapter 3 The Romance of Privatisation and its Unheralded Challengers: Case Studies from English, Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet History 58
7. Chapter 4 Beyond Embeddedness: a Challenge Raised by a Comparison of the Struggles Over Land in African and Post-socialist Countries 84
8. Chapter 5 Land as Asset, Land as Liability: Property Politics in Rural Central and Eastern Europe 106
9. Chapter 6 Property, Labour Relations and Social Obligations in Russia’s Privatised Farm Enterprises 126
10. Chapter 7 Cooperative Property at the Limit 147
11. Chapter 8 Who Owns the Fisheries? Changing Views of Property and Its Redistribution in Post-colonial Maori Society 170
12. Chapter 9 How Communal is Communal and Whose Communal is It? Lessons from Minangkabau 194
13. Chapter 10 Moving Borders and Invisible Boundaries: a Force Field Approach to Property Relations in the Commons of a Mexican ejido 218
14. Chapter 11 ‘The Tragedy of the Private’: Owners, Communities and the State in South Africa’s Land Reform Programme 243
15. Chapter 12 The Folk Conceptualisation of Property and Forest-related Going Concerns in Madagascar 269
16. Chapter 13 Property Rights, Water and Conflict in the Western U.S. 293
17. Chapter 14 Appropriating Family Trees: Genealogies in the Age of Genetics 309
18. Chapter 15 Cultural Property, Repatriation and Relative Publics: Which Public? Whose Culture? 330
19. Notes on Contributors 349
20. Index 355