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A: Historical and conceptual foundations
B: Current conflicts and displacements:
C: Alternatives forms of ownership:
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
Project Area B
Current conflicts and displacements:
Private property in contestation?
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.
© Zhen Hu via unsplash.com
B06
Property inequality in the private sphere:
On the institutional and cultural (re-)structuring of ownership arrangements of couples
© Tadeusz Rolke, courtesy of the artist & Gallery Le Guern
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
© C-H. Timmerbeil
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
© Brian Yurasits via unsplash
JRT01
The Transformation of global commons and the future of planetary ecosystems.
© Beth MacDonald via unsplash
JRT03
Ownership of genetic resources:
On the appropriation of traditional knowledge in the bio-economy
Project Area Z
Administrative projects
Z01
Zentralprojekt für Ergebnissicherung, Konzeptentwicklung und Gesellschaftsvergleich
Z02
Wissenschaftliche Geschäftsführung und Verwaltung
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