This article shows that landed property can be an exercise of state sovereignty in micro. I argue that property tightly relates to statehood and that the concept of ‘community’ offers us a lens with which to investigate that relation. Property's ‘communal’ character in Cyprus often transcends individual rights to ownership. A house belongs not to an individual, but to persons in their capacity as members of either the Greek-Cypriot or Turkish-Cypriot constitutional communities of the Republic. Focusing on the moral and political claims that ensue from this premise, I show how refugee Cypriots encounter and rearticulate the state in a variety of institutions as they lay claims to property (periousia) – their own or others’. Consequently, I argue that thinking through ‘community’ contributes to understandings of the linkage between property and statecraft (what I call the state/property nexus). In turn, this allows us to better comprehend statehood in post-conflict domains.

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微观上作为主权的财产：国家/财产关系与塞浦路斯问题

这篇文章表明，土地财产在微观上可以是国家主权的一种行使。我认为财产与国家地位密切相关，“社区”的概念为我们提供了一个研究这种关系的镜头。在塞浦路斯，财产的“公共”特征往往超越个人的所有权。房屋不属于个人，而属于共和国希族塞人或土族塞人宪法社区的成员。着眼于由此前提产生的道德和政治主张，我展示了塞浦路斯难民在提出财产要求时如何在各种机构中遇到并重新表述国家（periousia) – 他们自己的或他人的。因此，我认为通过“社区”进行思考有助于理解财产与治国之道之间的联系（我称之为国家/财产关系）。反过来，这使我们能够更好地理解冲突后领域的国家地位。