Situating Property in Transformation: Beyond the Private and the Collective

Peter Lindner

Europe-Asia Studies, 2013, vol. 65, issue 7, 1275-1294

Abstract: In most parts of the post-socialist world high expectations regarding privatisation were quickly disappointed when it became obvious that property practices did not follow the ideal type predicted by market models. The article addresses this divergence and emphasises the necessity of overcoming the dualism of an ideal type of property rights on the one hand and the way property is handled in everyday life on the other. It argues that concrete situations as well as the necessary justifications of practices have hitherto both been widely neglected as empirical foci in studies on property relations. Five brief episodes from the privatisation of collective farms in rural Russia serve as examples to illustrate how situations and justifications are reflexively linked by drawing on and negotiating about differing ‘orders of worth’.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2013.822698

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