| dc.contributor.author |
de Waal, Clarissa |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011-10-12T19:36:32Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2011-10-12T19:36:32Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2004 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7613 |
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| dc.description.abstract |
"In Communist Albania privately owned land was eliminated. Decollectivisation procedures began in 1991. This ethnography focuses on post-socialist property relations with respect to ex-cooperative land, forest and partially distributed state farm land. In northern Albania ex-cooperative land was privatised according to customary law rather than state decree. This was chiefly for practical reasons, but symbolic reasons played a role, too. The procedure was widely perceived as just; agreed by customary rules and tolerated by the state. The forest remained state owned though customary usage rights in the forest were reasserted by villagers. State indifference to large-scale illegal felling has resulted in massive forest destruction. The status of ex-state farm land is anomalous, providing a fertile arena for electioneering politicians wooing squatters and painful in security for large numbers of highland village migrants. Post-socialist property relations in Albania have been characterised by government laissez-faire alternating with interventionism and corrupt practices. The population has had to resort to 'do-it-yourself' tactics. The oft-repeated cry: 'There is no state, there is no law'-- ska shtet, ska ligj--encapsulates the view from the ground." |
en_US |
| dc.language |
English |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
property rights |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
ethnography |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
land tenure and use |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
forests |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
transitional economics |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
privatization |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
deforestation |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
indigenous institutions |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
corruption |
en_US |
| dc.title |
Post-Socialist Property Rights and Wrongs in Albania: An Ethnography of Agrarian Change |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Journal Article |
en_US |
| dc.type.published |
published |
en_US |
| dc.type.methodology |
Case Study |
en_US |
| dc.coverage.region |
Europe |
en_US |
| dc.coverage.country |
Albania |
en_US |
| dc.subject.sector |
Forestry |
en_US |
| dc.subject.sector |
Theory |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationjournal |
Conservation & Society |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationvolume |
2 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationpages |
19-50 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationnumber |
1 |
en_US |