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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791314603321

Titolo

Changing properties of property / / edited by Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda Beckmann and Melanie G. Wiber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-85745-528-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Disciplina

330.1/7

330.17

Soggetti

Property

Right of property

Commons

Resource allocation - Decision making

Culture and law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Changing Properties of Property; Contents; List of Maps, Figures and Tables; Chapter 1. The Properties of Property; Chapter 2. Ownership in Stateless Places; Chapter 3. The Romance of Privatisation and its Unheralded Challengers: Case Studies from English, Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet History; Chapter 4.  Beyond Embeddedness: a Challenge Raised by a Comparison of the Struggles Over Land in African and Post-socialist Countries; Chapter 5. Land as Asset, Land as Liability: Property Politics in Rural Central and Eastern Europe

Chapter 6. Property, Labour Relations and Social Obligations in Russia's Privatised Farm EnterprisesChapter 7. Cooperative Property at the Limit; Chapter 8. Who Owns the Fisheries?Changing Views of Property and Its Redistribution in Post-colonial Maori Society; Chapter 9. How Communal is Communal and Whose Communal is It? Lessons from Minangkabau; Chapter 10. Moving Borders and Invisible Boundaries: a Force Field Approach to Property Relations in the Commons of a Mexican ejido; Chapter 11. 'The Tragedy of the Private': Owners, Communities and the State in South Africa's Land Reform Programme



Chapter 12. The Folk Conceptualisation of Property and Forest-related Going Concerns in MadagascarChapter 13. Property Rights, Water and Conflict in the Western U.S.; Chapter 14. Appropriating Family Trees: Genealogies in the Age of Genetics; Chapter 15. Cultural Property, Repatriation and Relative Publics: Which Public? Whose Culture?; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically grounded case studies of the dynamics of property transformations. The property claimants discussed in these papers represent a diverse range of actors, including post-socialist states and their citizens, those receiving restitution for past property losses in Africa, Southeast Asia and in eastern Europe, collectives, corporate and individual actors. The volu

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Record Nr.

UNISA996203950903316

Titolo

Northwestern financial review

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bloomington, Minn.], : [Financial Communications], [©1988]-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

332.1/0977/05

Soggetti

Banks and banking - Middle West

Finance - Middle West

Banks and banking

Finance

Periodicals.

Middle West

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from cover.

Publisher varies: NFR Communications, Inc., <Apr. 18, 1992->

Semimonthly issues in magazine format, with intervening weekly issues published in newsletter format as: Northwestern financial review



update.