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).
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.
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.
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
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath has published a guest article in the Frankfurter Rundschau on “KI und Energieverbrauch: Wie Technologie zum Klimaproblem wird”. The author discusses the energy consumption of data processing, which in turn raises questions of ownership and responsibility.
The book will be published in the series of the Collaborative Research Centre Structural Change of Property, which can now also be found on our website under publications.
New publication!
Marco Sonnberger, Alena Bleicher and Matthias Groß have published the completely revised and expanded edition of the Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Whether on the topic of sustainability, questions of environmental justice or postcolonial perspectives on environmental research, the topic of property is present in various ways throughout the volume.
MEINS?! Strukturwandel des Eigentums – Literature meets Science
The first event in our series on questions of property in literature will take place on January 23 at the Jena Theaterhaus. Felix Lee will read from his novel "China, mein Vater und ich" and discuss with sociologist Stefan Schmalz the social changes in China and how the idea and reality of property have changed as a result. Further information and tickets here.
New publication
Petra Gümplová has published a new post on the International Law Blog. The post “Continental Shelf and the Quiet Ocean Commons Grab” provides a critical analysis of the recent U.S. continental shelf expansion, placing it within the broader context of global trends in continental shelf claims and raising important questions about justice, governance, and environmental sustainability in the management of marine resources.
In “Klasse gegen Klima? Transformationskonflikte in der Autoindustrie”, the authors deal with the social effects of ecological dangers, especially climate change, and emphasise that these dangers do not eliminate social inequalities, but rather reinforce them. The lack of consideration of social classes in ecological education means that measures against climate change come up against social barriers. The socio-ecological transformation is seen as conflictual, and the article empirically examines how management and labour in the automotive industry in Germany deal with these changes.
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Lecture “Schwarz-Sein: Blackness beyond the Human” by Alexander G. Weheliye (Brown University).
Date:11.01.2024 06:00 p.m. Venue: Forschungsbau “Weltbeziehungen”, Building C19, University of Erfurt
This book provides a detailed account of the role of property in German Idealism. It puts the concept of property in the center of the philosophical systems of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel and shows how property remains tied to their conceptions of freedom, right, and recognition.
The SFB in the media
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath has published a guest article in the Frankfurter Rundschau on “Sondervermögen Klima - jetzt!”. In this article, he addresses the millennium challenge of coping with climate change and mistakes that have been made in the past, as well as a possible solution for the future.
Panel discussion “Weltpolitische Umbrüche: USA – China in Konkurrenz und die wirtschaftlichen Reaktionen Europas” with Helmut Scholz und Stefan Schmalz. (in German)
Workshop Critical Theory in Berlin with the participation of Jacob Blumenfeld, Klaus Dörre and Silke van Dyk. The event will be held in German and registration is not required.
Date:08-09 December 2023 Location: Auditorium, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Humboldt University of Berlin Title: “Vergesellschaftung des Gesellschaftlichen”
For further information on the content and programme, please see the following link.
For some time now, nature, such as rivers, has been granted its own rights. In his new book "Die Rechte der Natur. Vom nachhaltigen Eigentum", Tilo Wesche explores fundamental questions about the justification, status and scope of these rights.
The Collaborative Research Centre "Structural Change of Property" at the Universities of Jena and Erfurt cordially invites you to the digital book launch on 07.12.2023 from 16:00-18:00. With comments by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (Erfurt) and Judith Möllhoff (Berlin), moderated by Hartmut Rosa (Jena/ Erfurt).
Matthew Thompson has been a Mercator Fellow at the SFB since the end of October. We spoke to him about his understanding of property and property structures and their significance for his research.
Next date: 22.November 2023 4-6 p.m.online
Title: Amrita Pande (Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town): “Labour, Property and the fertility industry: Notes from Dalit and Black feminist thought”
Marlen van den Ecker is giving a presentation "Gehirne bleiben relevant" about Artificial Intelligence, precisely Large Language Models (LLM) and the remaining difficulties that come with trying to work under avoidance of the brain at the conference „Was tun mit KI: Sozialismus aus dem Rechner oder Techno-Dystopie?"(11.11.) held by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
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Scientific publication cultures in the age of open access
Data control, reputational competition and the commercialisation of scientific publishing from the perspective of the disciplines.
Joint event organised by the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB) and the SFB 294 Strukturwandel des Eigentums.
Date: 30.November and 01.Dezember 2023 Ort: Lecture room of the ThULB (Bibliotheksplatz 2)
The SFB welcomes Matthew Thompson to his Mercator Fellowship. Today and tomorrow he will participate in the workshop “Local self-governance and urban property relations: Historical and present perspectives“.Furthermore, he will participate in the colloquium programme in the coming weeks.
Discussion on the occasion of the publication of the translation of Daniel Loick's book "Abuse of Property". In addition to Daniel Loick, Brenna Bhandar and Jacob Blumenfeld (moderator) are participating in the discussion. The translation is by Jacob Blumenfeld.
Date: 30.09.23 08:00 p.m.
The event will be streamed via Youtube
Venue: Cafe Moskau, Berlin
Date: 27.09.2023 09:00-17:00
Participation is also possible online!
New publication
Tilo Wesche has published a new book “Die Rechte der Natur. Vom nachhaltigen Eigentum” with Suhrkamp Verlag. Nature is increasingly being granted its own rights by parliaments, governments and courts worldwide. What is the truth about the rights of nature? Can this legal practice contribute to overcoming climate change? How can such rights be justified? And how can they be applied? Tilo Wesche deals with these and other questions.
A book launch is being planned.
Event information: Workshop “Contested Property”
This one-day workshop will address contemporary property conflicts from a variety of sociological, political, and legal perspectives, each highlighting a different aspect of contemporary property as a contested social relation. All members of the SFB294 are cordially invited.
For further information on the event and registration (by 03.10.2023), please see the following flyer.
Steffen Liebig, Klaus Dörre and Kim Lucht together with Carsten Büchling, have published an article on “Innovation durch Mitbestimmung – auch in der Transformation?” in the monthly magazine Sozialismus.de.