Rent from the Land : A Political Ecology of Postsocialist Rural Transformation

Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Glossary -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Main Body -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- The Political Economy of Postsocialist Transformation -- Political Ecology and Rent -- Access and Access Control -- Access Mechanisms in Postsocialism -- The Transformation of Value -- A Political Ecology Theory of Postsocialist Land Use Change -- The Plan of the Book -- Chapter 2. Albanian Socialism -- Isolation, Poverty, Repression and Ideology -- Socialist Land Use -- From Resistance to Breakdown -- Kodra, Bagetia and Dardha in Late Socialism -- Chapter 3. Patterns of Land Use Change -- The Fragmentation of Land Use -- Inter-Village Intensification and Extensification -- Intra-Village Intensification and Extensification -- Forest Degredation -- Chapter 4. Unmaking Socialist Agriculture: The Dissolution of Collective Structures -- The Fragmentation of the Plot Structure -- Impediments to Land Consolidation -- Changes in Collective Action -- Chapter 5. Unraveling the Socialist Countryside: Differentiation Among Villages and its Effects on Land Use -- The Political Ecology of Land Use in Kodra, Bagetia and Dardha -- Factors Differentiating Land Use among Villages -- Broader Socioeconomic Differentiation among Villages -- Chapter 6. The Crisis of Capital and Labor: Effects on Land Use Within Villages -- The Dependence on Land, Capital and Labor in Agricultural Production -- The Mechanisms of Access to Land, Capital and Labor -- Access to Capital and Labor Land Use Outputs -- Access Difference among Households -- Spatial Patterns of Land Use within Villages -- Chapter 7. The Fate of the Postsocialist Forest -- Albanian Forests after Socialism -- Peasant Resistance and Custom in Kodra's Chesnut Forests.