Wealth plays a major role in causing climate change. Not only because of massive overconsumption, but above all because of the investments made by the wealthy upper classes in a fossil fuel economy, which has caused climate change on the planet in the first place. This raises the question of a property system that would be suitable for protecting the ecological foundations of life and could be based on the consent of broad sections of the population. No fact illustrates the limits of private property rights as dramatically as the threat to the Earth system.
JenTower; Jena
Author's workshop: Neoliberalism’s Playground? Post-Socialist Transformations in Central European Context
The workshop will take place from 10 am to 6 pm in the SFB seminar room in the JenTower. For further information and registration please contact Florian Peters.
Lokschuppen; Marburg
Workshop: Making Publics for Finance – Making Finance Public: Methods and Politics in Studying Finance
The event organized by project A07 will take place next Tuesday, July 23rd from 09-18 in Marburg (Lokschuppen). Please register with Daniel Kunze (kunze@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de) by Friday, July 19.
Workshop: From Contested Ownership to (In)Voluntary Returns: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postcolonial Fight for Restitution and Repatriation
The interdisciplinary workshop aims to reassess the fight for repatriation and restitution by bringing together questions of ownership and voluntariness that are addressed in the Collaborative Research Center “Structural Change of Property” (Universities Erfurt and Jena) and the DFG-Research Group “Voluntariness” (Universities of Erfurt, Jena and Oldenburg). Focusing on questions of ownership, the workshop will examine how activists have tried to contest Western notions of ownership in the debates on repatriation and restitution and how Western museums and collection have reacted towards these efforts. The workshop will take place with our Mercator Fellow Flower Manase.
International Annual Conference "Beyond (Private) Property"
At the conference in Jena, we will discuss different forms of ownership that cannot be reduced to private property - which is dominant in modern societies - and ask about possibilities for organizing social relations in a non-property form or beyond private property.