Publications
New Publications
Title: Dimensions of Property in Reproductive Economies. Practices, Structures and Discourses
Editors: Stefanie Graefe, Irina Herb, Susanne Lettow
October 2025
About the book
Since the late 20th century, the production, circulation and consumption of bodily materials and reproductive services such as oocyte transfer and surrogacy have evolved into proliferating transnational reproductive economies. A wide range of new actors have emerged in this field, alongside an array of locally specific legal regulations, as well as (bio-)ethical discourses. Critical research on the political economy of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) has studied and problematized these developments. In this context, concepts such as production and reproduction, gift exchange, commercialization and labor have been adopted and re-formulated in order to grasp the specificity of reproductive economies and their correlations with capitalism. This edited volume aims to extend these critical perspectives through taking property and processes of propertization systematically into account. Focusing on property relations helps to highlight and analyze processes that constitute property objects, property subjects and property relations and their entanglement with intersecting relations of power and domination in reproductive economies.
Title: Umkämpfte Transformation
Edited by Klaus Dörre, Steffen Liebig, Kim Lucht, Lennart Michaelis and Johanna Sittel
July 2025
About the book
The ecological and digital transformation of society is currently in full swing—and more controversial than ever before. In the volume “Contested Transformation: Conflicts over Digital and Ecological Change”, edited by Klaus Dörre, Steffen Liebig, and others, these debates are addressed on the basis of conceptual contributions and empirical case studies, including the results of the expired SFB subproject B05 “Property, Inequality, and Class Formation in Socio-Ecological Transformation Conflicts”.
Title: Umkämpftes Eigentum. Eine gesellschaftstheoretische Debatte
Editors: Niklas Angebauer, Jacob Blumenfeld, Tilo Wesche
April 2025
About the book
From climate protection and the socialisation of large real estate companies to the right to one's own data: we are currently witnessing a comeback of debates on property. This volume offers the first comprehensive introduction to these highly topical issues. What are the consequences of financialisation for intellectual property and ownership of housing? What are the arguments in favour of common ownership? Are inheritances covered by the concept of property? Contributions from Katharina Pistor, Christoph Menke, Brenna Bhandar, Rahel Jaeggi, Andrej Holm, Philipp Staab, Andreas Malm and others develop solutions from the perspectives of philosophy, sociology, law and history.
Title: Die Geburt des Eigentums
Author: Jan Dirk Harke
February 2025
About the book
Property, as an effective right towards anyone, was not inherently part of Roman law. The concept of exclusively attributing a thing to its owner only appears significantly after the law of the twelve tables. With this however, the crucial steps towards testamentary freedom are being taken. Hereby, the boundaries of the position of the testator are being deconstructed, which in turn could not comply with a merely relative attribution of things. If an owner can decide about the destiny of their property, even beyond death, they need to be in position of exclusive entitlement before the fact. The concept of usufruct further connects with testamentary freedom as a catalyst for development. It is constructed as the functional opposite of property and, recognizably in the context of inheritance, fulfills the purpose of supporting disinherited relatives.
Publication series 'Structural change of property'
Edited by Silke van Dyk, Tilman Reitz and Hartmut Rosa
The series emerged from the Collaborative Research Centre "Structural Change of Property" funded by the German Research Foundation. It brings together outstanding academic work on the history, present and future of property from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is based on the assumption that the institution of private property is coming under increasing pressure in the face of intensified distribution conflicts, new digital productive forces and the crises of social and ecological reproduction and is confronted with alternatives.
Monographs and Edited Volumes
Here you will find an overview of the monographs and Edited Volumes published in the SFB 294 “Structural Change of Property”.
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Here you will find an overview of the Journal Articles published in the SFB 294 “Structural Change of Property”.
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The Working Paper series of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Structural Change of Property' publishes first, preliminary research results from the different subprojects as well as impulses for debates from cross-project discussions and working groups within the SFB at irregular intervals. Contributions by fellows and associated members of the SFB also appear in this series.
Members of the editorial team are Simon Gurisch, Philipp Köncke, Jana Ilnicka, Christine Schickert and Amelie Stuart.
The team can be reached at: koordination.sfb-eigentum@uni-jena.de
New Library of Property
In the New Library of Property you will find a link-equipped and easily searchable bibliography with texts on the subject of property, get access to publications from the SFB Structural Change in Property and will find material collections from these and other pools in the future. In addition, every quarter we present an interesting source text related to our research in more detail.
To the website of the New Library of Property