Subprojects

Overview of projects of the first funding phase

The Projects of the Collaborative Research Center are organised in three Project Areas: (1) objects of property, (2) subjects of property and (3) systems of ownership. For more information on our project areas, please see here.

Project Area Objekte

Problematic objects of property

Town, Nature, Knowledge

A06 The normative foundations of property: Digital property

A07 Financialization and Water Security: The Ecological Limits of Property

A08 Wildlife as a commodity and more-than-human property: On the model environmental stewardship in Namibia

B01 Contestation over Property Regimes and Housing: (Un)doing Commodified Urban Land Ownership in India and Germany

C03 Change in Energy as a Change in Ownership? Dynamics of Appropriation in European Wind Energy Expansion

C05 Property at Universities: Germany, Brazil, England

JRT04 Decarbonization at the Expense of Others? Property Relations in the Hydrogen Economy in South America Eigentumsverhältnisse in der Wasserstoffwirtschaft in Südamerika

Project Area Subjekte

Conflicts between subjects of property

Legal entities, social inequality, power structures

A02 Racial Capitalism: Property Relationships of Black Families in the Age of Segregation

A05 Legal Persons under Private Law that Own Property (Legally Responsible Foundations and Companies)

B04 Economic Property and Political (In)equality: Economic Property and Political (In)equality:

B08 Conflicts over Property and State Responses to the Internationalization of Chinese Companies in the US and the EU

B09 Persona ficta? Social Figures, Property Subjects, and Investment Practices in the History of Financial Markets, 1950-1990

B10 Embracing Capital: On normative and legal aspects of the capitalization of business ownership

JRT05 Private Debt and Property Formation in the Context of Historical Change in Germany and the United States

Project Area Ordnungen

Systems of ownership and alternative social principles of order

The public, the private, the communal

A01 Ambiguous Property: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

A03 Property as a Medium of Habit Formation: On the Political Anthropology of Property in the 19th Century

B06 Property Inequality in the Private Sphere: Couple-Internal and External Drivers of Change in Property Arrangements in Couple Relationships

B07 Concepts and Conflicts of Ownership in Privatization: Communal Self-Government and Communal Property in Eastern Europe since 1990

C02 The Dynamics of the Reproductive Economy: Forms of Appropriation in Global Fertility Chains

C04 Who Owns the Foundation? Infrastructure Orders and the Renegotiation of the Public Sphere

C06 Property as a World Relationship: Disposal, Care, Use: A Comparative Analysis in Germany and China

JRT06 (Media) Ownership in the digital structural transformation of the public sphere