Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy

Table of contents

• Property in Question *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• List of Contributors xi
• Introduction - Raising Questions about Property 1
• Notes *
• References *
• Part I - The “things” of Property 27
• One - Bodily Transactions: Regulating a New Space of Flows in “bio-Information” 29
• Notes *
• References *
• Two - Heritage as Property 49
• Notes *
• References *
• Three - The Selective Protection of Musical Ideas: the “creations” and the Dispossessed 69
• Notes *
• References *
• Four - Crude Properties: the Sublime and Slime of Oil Operations in the Ecuadorian Amazon 85
• Notes 107
• References *
• Part II - Property Value,And Liability 113
• Five - Prospecting's Publics 115
• Notes *
• References *
• Six - The Obligations of Ownership: Restoring Rights to Land in Postsocialist Transylvania 139
• Notes *
• References *
• Seven - Property Regimes and Sociotechnical Systems: Rights over Land in Mongolia's “age of the Market” 161
• Notes *
• References 181
• Part III - Cultural Recognition 183
• Eight - At Home in the Violence of Recognition 185
• Notes 204
• References *
• Nine - Cultural Rights and Wrongs: Uses of the Concept of Property 207
• References *
• Ten - The Menace of Hawkers: Property Forms and the Politics of Market Liberalization in Mumbai 227
• Notes *
• References *
• Part IV - Critiquing Property 249
• Eleven - Value, Relations, and Changing Bodies: Privatization and Property Rights in Kazakhstan 251
• Notes *
• References *
• Twelve - Economic Claims and the Challenges of New Property 275
• Notes 293
• References *
• Thirteen - Cyberspatial Properties: Taxing Questions about Proprietary Regimes 297
• Notes 316
• References *
• Index 319

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