{"product_id":"the-vanishing-hectare-property-and-value-in-postsocialist-transylvania-culture-and-society-after-socialism-9780801488696","title":"The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania (Culture and Society after Socialism)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648039378997,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801488699","price":21.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801488696.jpg?v=1781707252","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-vanishing-hectare-property-and-value-in-postsocialist-transylvania-culture-and-society-after-socialism-9780801488696","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}