The SFB short film:

About property in transition and the work of the SFB.

This film is the work of Catharina Göldner and Katharina Hamann.

The members of the Collaborative Research Centre in summer 2023

Image: Marlen van den Ecker

Welcome to the website of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 294 "Structural Change of Property"!

The Collaborative Research Centre pursues the goal of investigating the fundamental structural change of property that could be observed at the latest since 1989.  The Collaborative Research Centre contains a total of 23 subprojects at five locations in Germany: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Sprecher*innenhochschule), Universität Erfurt, Freie Universität Berlin, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

While private property has gained in importance worldwide since 1989 under conditions of increasing concentration and deregulation, the resulting property system has proved to be both crisis-prone and highly controversial in the face of new economic, political and technological challenges. It isn't challenged only by the global financial and economic crises, but also by political conflicts over the appropriation, distribution and containment of private property, as well as by the dynamics of the knowledge and bio-economies, which are linked to alternative concepts of common property, shared use and free access to resources.

News

Event announcement

Together with the philosophy departments of the Universities of Jena and Erfurt, as well as the Cluster of Excellence ‘Imaginamics’, the SFB is organising an interdisciplinary workshop entitled ‘Figures, Types, and Images of the Social in the 19th and 20th Century: Practices of Social Imagining in the History of Knowledge and the Sciences’. The event will take place from 20 to 21 November 2025 at the International Meeting Centre (IBZ, Erfurt University) in Erfurt. 

New publication!

A new anthology in the series “Structural Change of Property” addresses the question of property in the reproductive economy. Under the title “Dimensions of Property in Reproductive Economies. Practices, Structures and Discourses,” editors Stefanie Graefe, Irina Herb, and Susanne Lettow bring together contributions that expand existing critical analyses of the reproductive economy by including the perspective of property. 

Click here for the book (open access)

Event announcement

SFB goes DGS! From September 22-26, 2025, the 42nd Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) will take place in Duisburg on the topic of “Transitions.” Many SFB members will be presenting there, for example at our SFB ad hoc event Structural Change in Property Ownership – Transformation, Transition, Diversification, Persistence? (AdH80) on Thursday, September 25 (2:15-5:00 p.m.), which will discuss the effects and dynamics of property based on the existing ”property oblivion”. The complete program is available here (also as a PDF).

Event announcement

In addition, our SFB will be represented at the 42nd DGS Conference as follows: Katrin Leuze, Sylka Scholz, and Isabell Stamm will discuss property inequality on Tuesday, September 23 (2:15–4:00 p.m.) in the special event “Distributing Wealth, Uniting Society?” At the same time (2:15–5:00 p.m.), Lisa Vollmer and Silke van Dyk will discuss the negotiation of commons and infrastructures. Tilman Reitz will speak on September 23 at 2:15 p.m. about freedom of speech in academia, on September 25 at 5:00 p.m. about the challenges of academic publishing, and on September 26 at 9:00 a.m. about permanent employment in sociology.

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Events

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Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (ThULB); Jena

Open Access, Reputation und Bewertungskrise in der Wissenschaft – Wie kann die Analyse von Fachkulturen zu einer Neuausrichtung beitragen?

Wie lässt sich „Reputation“ in den einzelnen Fächern begreifen? Wo ist sie eher an klassisch-geschlossene, wo an offene Publikationsformate geknüpft? Wie wird sie aufgebaut, was sind ihre Formen und Funktionen, wie verhält sie sich zur Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Leistungen? Und wie verändert sich dieser Zusammenhang im Zeitalter digitaler Wissenschaft? Diese Fragen sollen in den Fokus unserer zweiten Tagung rücken. 

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Kino am Markt; Jena

Movie series "Property in view"

On November 18, we will show the anime film Princess Mononoke (J 1997).

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JenTower; Jena

Fragmented Globalization: The Contested Governance of Global Capitalism

The workshop is organized by subproject B08 and will take place on November 20 and 21 at JenTower and hybrid.

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Berlin; Berlin

Labour Environmentalism: Crisis, Perspectives and Strategies

organized by AK Wien, Global Labour University, HWR Berlin, Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, next economy lab, NEC at the University of Flensburg, SFB «Strukturwandel des Eigentums» University Jena, and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Further information and the porgram. 

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An overview of the most important events of the Collaborative Research Center is available here.