Johannes Stahl Boeken

Exploring the implications of property ownership, this book examines how various governments have transformed natural elements into commodities through ownership titles. Focusing on postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania, and Vietnam, it reveals the complex and often problematic outcomes of these reforms. The analysis suggests that property rights are not the panacea for economic, political, or environmental issues that governments once believed them to be, challenging the notion of property as a universal solution.

This book shows the graffiti's scope of expression in over 250 pictures and explanatory texts.

The book explores the profound impacts of post-socialist political and economic transformations on Albania's rural society and environment. It delves into how these changes have reshaped land use and social structures, highlighting the unique challenges faced by rural communities during this transition. Through in-depth analysis, it sheds light on the interplay between economic policies and their environmental consequences, offering insights into the broader implications for rural life in a changing Albania.

The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers. From bureaucrats abetting illegal deforestation to peasants opposing government agricultural policies, it reveals the social and political mechanisms by which neoliberalism was introduced into the Romanian landscape.

Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, and finds that property reforms are no longer, if they ever were, miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

This case study deals with livelihood strategies of indigenous peasants in the northern Bolivian Amazon. It is based on anthropological fieldwork conducted during three months in 2002. The study results from an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Institute of Forest Policy and the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. It was carried out within the framework of the project Developing Institutions for Sustainable Use of Non-Timber Forest Products sponsored by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Using a Sustainable Livelihoods approach, it investigates the livelihood strategies of Cavineño Indians who attempt to convert their livelihood assets and capital endowments into positive outcomes in a context of high vulnerability.

24 unterhaltsame Geschichten über Dorli, die mit Fröhlichkeit und Rücksichtslosigkeit alltägliche Abenteuer meistert. Ob beim Friseur oder bei der Polizei, ihre Erlebnisse sorgen stets für Lacher, auch wenn sie manchmal in Schwierigkeiten gerät. Ideal zum Selberlesen oder Vorlesen.

Eine Hommage an den Hamburger Amateurfußball, die 27 Reportagen über Spiele bietet, die mit dem Rad oder öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln erreichbar sind. Der Autor schildert Erlebnisse bei widrigen Bedingungen und beschreibt seine unerwartete Faszination für Altona 93, die zwischen den Zeilen spürbar wird.