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Inequality as temporal process

Property and time inTransylvania's land restitution

University of Michigan, USA

How is inequality related to time? This article explores some temporal coordinates of newly emerging unequal land distributions inTransylvania (Romania), in the wake of socialism's collapse. Building on a notion of temporally based strategies, it examines both temporal conceptions and temporally based practices to describe how time entered into the initial conception of the land restitution process, how achieving ownership was itself a time-intensive activity, and how the government's economic policy has inadequately supported the time-horizons appropriate for new owners. In each respect, time tends to work to the advantage of the former holders of political and social capital as they seek to convert those forms of privilege into control over land.

Key Words: eastern Europe • inequality • land ownership • political capital • postsocialism • property • Romania • time

Anthropological Theory, Vol. 1, No. 3, 373-392 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/14634990122228782


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