Making things available: Ownership as an incarnation of our relationship with the world

Outline

The project is based on the insight that ownership plays an important role in the establishment and reproduction of our understanding of things, society and ourselves. It applies qualitative and empirical methods to various practices of the sharing economy to examine whether new forms of ownership and alternative concepts alter that understanding.

Assuming a hybrid field with ‘old’ and ‘new’ practices and following a sociology of our relationship to the world, the researchers aim to determine the transformational and reproductive potential inherent to forms of and alternatives to ownership.

Project activities

The sub-project C06 in the person of Jörg Öberthür is involved in the project "Nucleus Jena, Transfer. Regional.Nachhaltig.". Here, research is being conducted on sharing concepts and the transfer of knowledge and ideas in relation to sustainability. The focus here is on the cooperation of entrepreneurial, social and university actors.

Events

  • Lecture at the Jena Social Theory Colloquium by Thomas Widlok: “Teilen in großem Maßstab. Grenzen und Möglichkeiten”, Jena. (05.07.2023)
  • Workshop with sub-project C07 of the Collaborative Research Centre 1265: “Wohnraumteilen oder -vermarkten: Was verändert sich durch Airbnb und co?”, Jena. (29.06.2023)
  • Lecture on the field of music streaming at the Jena Social Theory Colloquium by Patrick Vonderau: “Die Grenzen digitaler Märkte: Perspektiven der Media Industry Studies”, Jena. (18.01.2023)
  • Workshop on car sharing with Weert Canzler, Jena. (24.11.2022)

Publications

Monograph
  • Reckwitz, Andreas; Rosa, Hartmut (2021): Spätmoderne in der Krise. Was leistet die Gesellschaftstheorie?, Suhrkamp.
Contributions to and edited volumes
  • Rosa, Hartmut (2023): “Property as the Modern Form of Weltbeziehung: Reflections on the structural change of possessive forms of relating to the world”, In: B. Hollstein, H. Rosa, J. Rüpke (eds.): "Weltbeziehung". The Study of our Relationship to the World, Campus, S. 19- 35.
  • Henning, Christoph (2023): “Values of Exchange, Values of Sharing”, In: Bettina Hollstein, Hartmut Rosa, Jörg Rüpke (eds.): ‘Weltbeziehung’: The Study of our Relation to the World, Frankfurt/M.: Campus 2023, 235-258.
  • Rosa, Hartmut; Arthur Bueno & Christoph Henning (eds.) (2021): Critical Theory & New Materialisms, New York/London: Routledge.
Media and Podcasts

Please find further current publications on our individual profile pages.

Lectures

  • “Sharing is Caring – Ambivalenzen der Sharing Economy”, opening lecture and participation in the panel discussion as part of the event series “Diskursᶟ - Sharing is Caring: Ist Teilen das neue Haben?” organised by Nucleus Jena (June 2022).
  • “Sharing Spaces – Digitale (Gruppen-)Interviews und qualitative Auswertungsmethoden im Teilprojekt Dinge verfügbar machen”, lecture by Jörg Oberthür and Henrike Katzer as part of the methods workshop “Eigentum erforschen. Forschungsdesigns und erste Felderfahrungen im SFB/Transregio Strukturwandel des Eigentums” at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (March 2022).

Project Staff