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How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata become objects and therefore propertized, and what are the social, economic, and ethical considerations for such transformations?Addressing these hotly contested issues and many more, Property in Question interrogates the very concept of property and what is happening to it in the contemporary world, in case studies ranging from Romania to Kazakhstan, Africa to North America. The book examines not only the changing character of the property concept, but also its ideological foundations and political usages. Authors address bio-transactions, music copyright, cyberspace, oil prospecting, debates over privatization of land and factories, and dilemmas arising with new forms of ownership of businesses.Offering a fresh perspective on contemporary economic transformation, this volume is a long overdue investigation of the power of the private property concept, as well as an exploration of how the global economy may be subtly, even invisibly, changing what property means and how we relate to it.

"Our modern republic in its fading light. Tall buildings emptying out as the clouds glide by, the sun drops down, and the stars turn on. Cycles of movement among rhythms of earth. Goods transported, duties performed, transactions completed and the sights and journeys along the way. The workings of our urban machinery and the individual's dreams and desires, the search for a life understood, a life imbued with meaning. What's left behind, what's left within, and what is remembered. Questions, Poems, Drawings." -- Stephen Gibson "There is a lyrical, hypnotic purity in the poems of Stephen Gibson. Where other young poets place on display their earnestness or their hyper-literary savvy, Gibson has been a longtime student of dream: of the dilated moment between day and night, dream and wakefulness, fact and imagination. Very true to his surrealist lineage, Gibson's specialty is the city noir. In the haunted plaza of a Gibson poem, a giant rose blooms in the steam from a manhole cover, and an ordinary guy sees his face reflected in the fender of a passing limousine. There, in that most foreign place, we glimpse the human heart, still alive and wonderfully strange. I go back to these poems for their haunting physical clarity, for the way they withhold answers in honor of mystery; for how they are both intimate and impersonal -noir, original, mysterious and lovely."-- tony hoagland