Publications

Title: Nomad Properties. Political Anthropologies of Nomadism from the 18th Century until Today.

Edited by: Anna Möllers, Dirk Schuck, Bernhard Kleeberg

January 2026

About the book

What does the discourse on nomadism say about anthropological concepts of western societies? This edited volume relates historical instances of nomadism to the role of "the nomad" in political discourses and recent theoretical debates. The figure of the nomad was and still is constructed as an antagonist within a (neo-)liberal frame of narratives about sedentarism, productivity and improvement. Whereas the discourse about nomadism in the 18th and 19th century was entangled with colonial contexts and ideas about so called "primitive" societies, it became even more multifaceted in the 20th century, considering ideas about "nomadic thinking" of Deleuze or Guattari, and different forms of "modern nomadism" on the rise: from travelling day laborers to refugees of war, to scientists, to a global managerial class.

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.

Here you will find an overview of the monographs and Edited Volumes published in the SFB 294 “Structural Change of Property”.

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

Working Paper Series