Subprojects

Project Area A

Historical and conceptual foundations

What is and what was property?

A01 Divine property: Solutions from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

A02 Property in one’s own body and in the bodies of others in the United States between the eighteenth and twentieth century.

A03 Property and habit: On the political anthropology of ownership in Western modernity

A04 Order and property: Stabilisation strategies in twentieth-century Germany

A05 Testaments and bequests as tools for immortalising people and property.

A06 The normative foundations of property: Liberty, common and sustainable ownership

A07 Habitat as a security: Pledged property and financialisation

Project Area B

Current conflicts and displacements:

Private property in contestation?

B01 Urban property regimes and citizenship in transition: Changing ownership patterns and systems of relatedness in India

B02 Ownership of companies: The emergence and transformation of social corporate constitutions

B03 Public interest versus private property rights. Ownership structures of public-interest organisations

B04 Economic property and political (in-)equality: An analysis based on an elite theory approach

B05 Ownership, inequality and class formation in socio-ecological transformation conflicts.

B06 Property inequality in the private sphere: On the institutional and cultural (re-)structuring of ownership arrangements of couples

B07 Property concepts and conflicts in the process of privatisation: Communal self-government and communal property in Eastern Europe since 1990

JRT02 Clash or Convergence of Capitalisms: Property Conflicts over Chinese Direct Investments in Germany and the European Union

Project Area C

Alternatives forms of ownership:

What are the possibilities, what changes are emerging?

C01 Hybrid ownership structures in state capitalism: Ownership-based society, socio-economic differentiation and Governmentality analysed through the example of Shenzhen, China

C02 Property in the human body in the context of transnational economies of reproduction.

C03 Wind harvest and heat theft as indicators of new ownership structures.

C04 Debating the public sphere and the future of the commons: Property relations in the context of welfare state transformation

C05 Intellectual property. Social embedding and functional equivalents

C06 Making things available: Ownership as an incarnation of our relationship with the world

JRT01 The Transformation of global commons and the future of planetary ecosystems.

JRT03 Ownership of genetic resources: On the appropriation of traditional knowledge in the bio-economy