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Two new podcast episodes of appropriate online!

The 17th episode of our podcast appropriate documents the book presentation by Felix Krämer (A02), who together with Matthias Ruoss presented their publications on the topic of debt in the new history of capitalism.  

The 18th episode of appropriate documents the workshop “From Contested Ownership to (In)Voluntary Returns - interdisciplinary perspectives on the postcolonial fight for restitution and reparation” and includes an interview with our former Mercator Fellow Flower Manase. 

New blogpost online!

Helen Bönnighausen, Luzie Gerstenhöfer, Maria Pfeiffer, Marco Sonnberger and Anne Tittor have published a new blog post. It evaluates the key findings of the workshop “Energy crisis, ownership and services of general interest - the energy system in transition”. The key question is what role the ownership of energy infrastructures plays for services of general interest (in Germany).

We will be funded for another 4 years!

It is now official: the German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding of over 13.4 million euros for the project of the Universities of Jena and Erfurt. Silke van Dyk will be the new spokesperson for the SFB for the next four years. More information in the FSU Jena press release.

New publication in the book series “Structural Change of Property”

The fifth volume in the Open Acess series has been published by Campus today. Exploring the economic, sociological, and philosophical implications of property, this book titled Havings aims to overcome the conceptual and ideological limitations inherited from 19th-century debates and legal developments. The author Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (C01) introduces a new conceptual framework that substitutes the term “property” with the terms “having” and the neologism “havings”, analyzed through two dimensions: the action modes of having (appropriation, recognition, and assignment) and the structural modes of havings (possession, ownership, and property).

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The SFB in the media

Tilo Wesche (A06) talks about two recent rulings on the rights of nature in an interview with the FAZ.

Event information

From November 29 to 30, the conference Green Capitalism. A new regime of accumulation? will take place at the Grimm Centre of Humboldt University Berlin, co-organized by Jacob Blumenfeld (A06). 

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From 25 to 26 November, the Sharing Symposium “Mit Hochschulen auf dem Weg zur sozial-ökologischen Transformation” will take place, which is organized by the transfer project Nucleus Jena in cooperation with the CRC “Structural Change of Property”, in particular the project C06. Christoph Henning, Bettina Hollstein, Tilman Reitz, Helen Bönnighausen, Malte Janzig and Jörg Oberthür will also be represented with contributions and lectures.

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From 13 to 15 November, the workshop Das Klima der Philosophie: Die ökologische Krise als Herausforderung für die Philosophie- und Ideengeschichte will take place at the University of Wuppertal, co-organized by Martin Mulsow (A03). The workshop will also feature contributions by Dirk Schuck (A03), Jacob Blumenfeld (A06) and Christoph Henning (C06). The flyer of the program is available here.

The SFB-movie series Eigentum im Blick is back on October 22

As before, the series will bring the debate on property issues to the screen once a month and show a movie about conflicts over property, current dynamics of change and possible alternatives. A member of the SFB will introduce the film and be available for a discussion at the end. 

Next Tuesday, October 22, at 8 pm, we will be showing the film DAS SCHMUCKSTÜCK (France, 2010). The film will be introduced by Dirk Schuck (A03).

Movie Lichter der Straße at DOK Leipzig

Director Anna Friedrich curated and documented the cultural programme of the Nomadism Conference, which was organized by the SFB's A03 project in July 2022. Now her documentary film is being released, in which she accompanies four women who are nomadic in Germany. The movie Lichter der Straße will premiere at the Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.

Flower Manase as guest at SFB

The SFB welcomes Flower Manase as Mercator fellow. On 24 and 25 October she will be taking part in the workshop From Contested Ownership to (In)Voluntary Returns: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Postcolonial Fight for Restitution and Repatriation.

New publication!

Philipp Köncke and Nana de Graaff (JRT02) have published an article in the journal Politics and Governance entitled Chinese Multinationals and Europe’s Geoeconomic Turn: The De‐Globalization of the Chinese ICT and Automotive Industry?.

New publication!

Robin Saalfeld (B06) and Lena Mann co-authored the article “Und dann ging alles seinen sozialisischen Gang'. Paarbildung, Paarwelten und Umgang mit Eigentum in der DDR und im Transformationsjahrzehnt” in the anthology Feministische Postsozialismusforschung. Inter- und transdiziplinäre Zugänge.

New publication!

Henrike Katzer, Malte Janzing, Christoph Henning, Jörg Oberthür, Hartmut Rosa (C06) have published an article in the Zeitschrift für Soziologie. In it, they examine whether and how the world relations of subjects change when property relations are set in motion. To this end, they look at practices and experiences of homesharing and analyze whether irritations and changes in relations to things, social relations and self-relations can be observed.

The SFB in the media

SFB spokesperson Silke van Dyk (C04) writes in her guest article for Der Spiegel about the need for a strong left and the tasks it faces. In addition to defending liberal democracy, she emphasizes the need to build a social and infrastructural foundation, which includes strengthening public infrastructure as opposed to private property. She also emphasizes that criticism of the system from the left, which targets the fundamental problems of the economic and social system and thus also takes a critical view of property relations, is central.  

New publication in the book series “Structural Change of Property”

The fourth volume in the Open Acess series has been published by Campus today. Sofia Bianchi Mancini, Helen A. Gibson, Dirk Schuck and Markus Vinzent are the editors of the volume Relating to Landed Property. The contributions in this volume engage with postcolonial critiques of land tenure and provide a much-needed contextualisation of the ways in which histories of divine possession, empire, settler colonialism, slavery and the dispossession of indigenous peoples inform contemporary practices of land tenure.

Panel “Generativität und Eigentum” (Generativity and ownership) on practical philosophy conference

Susanne Lettow (C02) will chair the panel “Generativity and Property” at the Conference on Practical Philosophy, which will take place at the University of Passau from September 19-20, 2024. Abibi Stewart (C02) will speak on the panel on “Generativity as Labor in the Context of the Global Reproductive Economy”. Helen Gibson (A02) will speak on “‘Critical Fabulation’ as a historical-philosophical method: Grand Midwives and the unlearning of propertization”. The detailed program is available here.

Call for Papers

Contributions are being sought for the journal Cultural Science, edited by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (C01). The journal is dedicated to the study of more-than-human culture. Contributions may be critical, analytical and/or empirical. Dialogic contributions are sought that are interested in the production and translation of new ideas and new knowledge, especially across perceived and contested borders between systems, groups and identities, and academic disciplines. The PDF with more information is available here.

New source of the quarter in the New Library of Property

Eduardo Relly (JRT03) presents the Carta de Belém in this quarter's new source. The declaration represents an important step in the debate on the indigenous struggle for the ownership of biodiversity.

New publication!

Silke van Dyk and Markus Kip (C04) have published an article entitled “Double Democratization and the Politics of Property in Municipalist Barcelona” in the Journal of Political Sociology. They analyze the political engagements regarding property during the reign of the new municipalist government in Barcelona.

The SFB in the media

Felix Krämer (A02) was interviewed by Deutschlandfunk in the program “Systemfragen” about the history of debt in the USA. With reference to the abolition of slavery, he explains how the property relations of that time still have an impact today and how government austerity measures also in Germany contribute to their further entrenchment.

Looking back on the time with Mercator Fellow Klaus Bosselmann

The legal scholar Klaus Bosselmann from the University of Auckland (New Zealand) was a Mercator Fellow at the SFB in June. At the Jena Social Theory Colloquium, he gave a lecture on "Beyond Property: Trusteeship for the Earth". In addition, a workshop on "Private property and public commons - narrowing the gap" was organized with him.

In the new episode of our SFB podcast appropriate, you can listen to Klaus Bosselmann's abridged lecture and a subsequent interview.

Event information

On 23.7. the workshop "Making Publics for Finance - Making Finance Public: Methods and Politics in Studying Finance. Methods and Politics for Studying Finance" will take place at the Lokschuppen in Marburg. To participate, please register with Daniel Kunze (kunze@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de) by 19.7.

New publication!

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Qian Zhao (C01) have published a new book. The anthology East Asian Ethical Life and Socio-Economic Transformation in the Twenty-First Century. The Ethical Sources of the Entrepreneurial Renewal of Companies and Communities looks at ethical culture in East Asia, examines the impact it has had on economic and social transformation, and explores what impact it might have on solving current problems. It also looks at cooperative enterprises and corporate social responsibility.

Call for Papers

For the conference "Gender, Nature and Ecology. Articulating the political-intellectual traditions of French and German ecofeminism in a global perspective" which is co-organized by Susanne Lettow (C02), contributions are sought. The conference will take place from October 7 to 8, 2024 in Paris and Anna Saave (University of Freiburg), former member of the CRC, will give a keynote speech. The PDF with more information is available here.

The SFB in the media

Petra Gümplová (JRT01) was interviewed by the Goethe-Institut about the use of natural resources. In the interview, she describes how the current system of ownership of natural resources developed and why it is problematic. Finally, she gives an outlook on alternative concepts for the management of natural resources.

Keynote by Hartmut Rosa "Dinge ent-sorgen. Wie der Kapitalismus das Ende des Privateigentums an Konsumgütern erzwingt"

Hartmut Rosa will give a public lecture on the disposal of our property in turbo-capitalism. It will take place on June 27 at 7 p.m. at the Town Hall of Erfurt. The lecture can also be attended online via livestream.

Two new publications in the book series "Structural Change of Property"!

Two new books will be published in the SFB series on June 19: Nach dem Privateigentum? by Silke van Dyk, Tilman Reitz and Hartmut Rosa and Leben auf Kredit by Felix Krämer.

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Yann Schosser and Max Huschke (A06) give a lecture as part of the lecture series “Understanding Freedom. Challenges and Perspectives in a Liberal Society” at the HTWK Leipzig. The title of the lecture is: “The real villain of our time. Kant and libertarianism.” The lecture will take place on Wednesday, June 26th. from 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

This is what the lecture is about: Freedom legitimizes property as well as criticism of it. How freedom justifies property, why in this context a key figurehead of the US right finds Kant worse than Marx, what that says about them and Kant, why property is actually social, what that has to do with the Big Bang, a parking lot and Ironman has – we want to clarify all of this in our lecture.

New publication!

Silke van Dyk (C04) writes about private property as a privilege in her new publication in the journal Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ). Private property feigns individual merit and thus conceals the fact that many have contributed to it. The SFB co-spokesperson sees more public infrastructure as a solution.

The SFB in the media

Marlen van den Ecker (C05) was a guest on Radio Frei and spoke about artificial intelligence and intellectual property.

New podcast episode Appropriate!

In the new podcast episode of the SFB podcast Appropriate, Clara Salazar talks about the history and concept of ejidos (collective forms of land ownership), which were introduced by the Mexican Revolution in 1917. This episode is the forth part of “The Urban Lives of Property Series”.

The SFB in the media

Deutsche Welle reports on Stefan Schmalz's (JRT02) research on the differences in Internet regulation between the USA and China, which are based on different world views.

Job advertisement

In the subproject C02, there is a vacancy for a student assistant for a limited period from 15.07. until 31.12.2024. The application deadline is 30.06.2024. For further information, please see the following link.

New working paper!

The Working Paper “Property vs. Usage Rights Attitudes of Citizens and Political Elites” of Jonathan Rinne, Malte Janzing and Helen Bönnighausen is now available online.

New blogpost!

Helene Langbein (B02) writes in the new post of the SFB blog about the 1976 German law on employee co-determination and its current significance for projects in the area of conflict between the guarantee of ownership and freedom of occupation.

Call for Papers

Contributions are being sought for the workshop “Changing property and gender relations” (TP B06) in September.

For information on the guiding questions of the workshop, as well as on how to submit abstracts, please see here.

Deadline: 14.06.2024

Contact: robin.saalfeld@uni-jena.de

New publication

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (C01) has published a new book entitled "Embodiment, Political Economy and Human Flourishing. An Embodied Cognition Approach to Economic Life". In the publication, questions of property are raised and negotiated in connection with money and labour, among other things.

New blog-series!

A new blog series on urban property conflicts in Europe and local struggles for self-governance in East and West has been published. In the seven parts of the series "Urban property conflicts in Europe, East and West: A blog series on local struggles for self-governance”, various authors write about I the history of the German socialisation movement, II property conflicts in Polish urban development, III the reshaping of property rights and urban governance in Barcelona and Naples, IV the discourse on expropriation claims of housing, V the confrontation of property relations with the socialist legacy,VI post-neoliberal cities as an alternative, and VII self-governance as community control.

SFB in the media

Silke van Dyk, Markus Kip and Luzie Gerstenhöfer (C04) take stock of municipalist endeavours and alternatives to private property in Barcelona in the magazine Luxemburg.

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Achim Seifert (B02) is co-organisor and panel member at the workshop entitled "Wege zur Solidarität. Konzeptionelle Wurzeln des modernen Sozialstaats in Frankreich und Deutschland" (in German and French). The workshop will take place on May 23 from 1 p.m. and 24 at the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin).

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Kick-off event for the Nucleus sub-project 'The transformative potential of sharing'

On April 22, the sub-project led by Jörg Oberthür (C06) in the transfer area Nucleus was presented to students. 

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Tilo Wesche (A06) is a guest in the panel discussion "Who owns nature? Legal, philosophical and political aspects" with Bärbel Frischmann and Michael Riegner. The discussion will take place on April 24 from 6 p.m. in seminar room C19.00.02/03 of the "Weltbeziehungen" research building (Nordhäuser Str. 63, 99091 Erfurt).

New blog post!

Verena Wolf (JRT01) writes in the new post of the SFB blog about the role of private property in causing the climate crisis. She addresses the global inequality in CO2 emissions and shows that owning private property results in more carbon emissions. This leads her to the question of the extent to which planetary boundaries determine the ownership of private property.

"Das Kollektive im Privaten. Eigentumskonflikte und die Neuverhandlung des Öffentlichen"

Lecture by Silke van Dyk as part of the lecture series "Im Widerstreit. Conflict zones in contemporary society" at Universität Hamburg. Thursday, April 18, 2024, 16:15 - 17:45, Main Building, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Lecture Hall K. More information can be found here.

SFB in the media

Stefan Schmalz (sub-project JRT02) was interviewed by the ARD magazine Fakt on the occasion of the ongoing labor dispute in the company SRW Metalfloat with Chinese owner on the increase of strikes in East Germany.

New publication!

Helen Gibson has published a new article titled “Granny Midwives’ Epistemic and Embodied Care”. The article is part of the open access edited volume “Herausforderung Solidariät. Konzepte–Kontroversen–Perspektiven” written by Kerstin Schmidt and Joost van Loon.

The SFB in the media

Stefan Schmalz (sub-project JRT02) and Klaus Dörre (sub-project B05) are interviewed by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) as experts on the dispute between owners and trade unions following the takeover by Chinese investors of companies in Germany. The interviewees discuss the differing views of the Chinese owners and the German labour unionists.

New podcast episode Appropriate!

In this new episode Jean-David Gerber talks about regional and conceptional differences in the perception of property and demonstrates their impact on public and private usage of resources by exploring historical and present-day debates around property in Switzerland

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