Out of Eastern Europe

Subotić, Jelena

doi:10.1177/0888325415569763

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“…Kosovo's recent history is marked by a succession of political and property regime changes culminating in “multilayered and overlapping transitions” (Subotić, 2015, 410). Under the Ottoman Empire, the tapi system (certificates of allotment; tapija in Albanian) governed property ownership in what is today Kosovo with cadastral records based on population and tax records.…”

Section: A Short History Of Property Regimes In Kosovomentioning

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“Property rights are human rights”: Bureaucratization and the logics of rule of law interventionism in postwar Kosovo

Mora

2023

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What makes property restitution “successful” in postwar Kosovo? How are multiple, overlapping, and conflicting property regimes folded into the process of postwar transition? And what can the implementation of rule of law illuminate about international interventionism? Daily practices at the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA, the administrative, quasi‐judicial institution that the United Nations tasked with postwar property restitution) reveal the runaway effect of the growing bureaucratization of international human rights: institutional success is measured through neoliberal “technologies of accountability,” and the project itself becomes the key outcome. This is the result of a paradigm shift in global development that saw the legalization of property rights as a cornerstone of post‐conflict state‐building. A parallel shift towards managerialism and auditability in public sector management has given rise to demands for efficiency and accountability in transnational institutions. Together, these moves, which found fertile ground in Kosovo's reconstruction process and determined the mandate and institutional setup of property restitution, transform rule of law from an idealized public good to a shortsighted, box‐ticking exercise chiefly concerned with the production of measurable returns. These benchmarks sidestep the complicated historical legacies of property relations and entitlements and generate new forms of rights inequality.

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“Property rights are human rights”: Bureaucratization and the logics of rule of law interventionism in postwar Kosovo

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2023

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“…Not surprisingly, Subotić takes strong issue with ekiert's optimistic assessment of the past twenty years as the best in the history of eastern europe. 9 The next two essays, by Joshua Tucker and aida Hozić, offer very personal accounts of the authors' relationship to and with east european studies. They testify to the variety of trajectories leading scholars have taken in this direction, and to the often murky waters they had to navigate along the way.…”

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