Rent from the land : a political ecology of postsocialist rural transformation / / Johannes Stahl [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459235003321
• Autore: Stahl Johannes
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-283-37797-7; 9786613377975; 1-84331-898-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 137 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
• Disciplina: 333.3/14965
• Soggetti: Land use - Albania; Land tenure - Albania; Rent - Albania; Rural development - Albania; Albania Economic policy 1992-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Glossary; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Main Body; Chapter 1. Introduction; The Political Economy of Postsocialist Transformation; Political Ecology and Rent; Access and Access Control; Access Mechanisms in Postsocialism; The Transformation of Value; A Political Ecology Theory of Postsocialist Land Use Change; The Plan of the Book; Chapter 2. Albanian Socialism; Isolation, Poverty, Repression and Ideology; Socialist Land Use; From Resistance to Breakdown; Kodra, Bagetia and Dardha in Late Socialism Chapter 3. Patterns of Land Use Change; The Fragmentation of Land Use; Inter-Village Intensification and Extensification; Intra-Village Intensification and Extensification; Forest Degredation; Chapter 4. Unmaking Socialist Agriculture: The Dissolution of Collective Structures; The Fragmentation of the Plot Structure; Impediments to Land Consolidation; Changes in Collective Action; Chapter 5. Unraveling the Socialist Countryside: Differentiation Among Villages and its Effects on Land Use; The Political ; Ecology of Land Use in Kodra, Bagetia and Dardha; Factors Differentiating Land Use among Villages Broader Socioeconomic Differentiation among Villages; Chapter 6. The Crisis of Capital and Labor: Effects on Land Use Within Villages; The Dependence on Land, Capital and Labor in Agricultural Production; The Mechanisms of Access to Land, Capital and Labor; Access to Capital and Labor Land Use Outputs; Access Difference among Households; Spatial Patterns of Land Use within Villages; Chapter 7. The Fate of the Postsocialist Forest; Albanian Forests after Socialism; Peasant Resistance and Custom in Kodra's Chesnut Forests; Anarchy and Communal Management of Forest in Dardha Massive Logging and State Corruption in Forests Around Bagetia; Chapter 8. Rent from the Land; Shifting Rent Dynamics and Land Use Change; Rural Transformation and Albania's Accession to the European Union; End Matter; Notes; Notes: Chapter 1; Notes: Chapter 2; Notes: Chapter 3; Notes: Chapter 4; Notes: Chapter 5; Notes: Chapter 6; Notes: Chapter 7; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Rent from the Land' examines the effects of the massive political and economic changes of postsocialism on rural society and environment in Albania.