Property concepts and conflicts in the process of privatisation: Communal self-government and communal property in Eastern Europe since 1990
Outline
Privatisation and self-government were inextricably connected during the Eastern European transformations. Using the developments in Poland as an example, the project explores how corporate property underwent a process of reinvention, political debate and policy-making during the reforms of local self-government in Eastern Europe in the transformational phase of the 1990s.
It further explores the influence of communal self-government on the social acceptance of privatisation. At its centre, then, are the disembedding and re-embedding of corporate property as a result of government action and government bodies.
Project activities
Publications
Scientific publications
- Peters, Florian (2023a): Von Solidarność zur Schocktherapie. Wie der Kapitalismus nach Polen kam, Berlin: Ch. Links.
Media and podcasts
- Peters, Florian: Property rights versus tenants: Interview mit Beata Siemieniako zur Restitution von Mietshäusern in Polen. Episode der Podcasts „Urban Political“ und „appropriate“, 30.11.2023.
Please find further current publications on our individual profile pages.
Events
- “Local Self-Governance and Urban Property Relations: Historical and Present Perspectives”, international Workshop (together with C04), Jena, 26.-27. Oktober 2023.
- “Conflicts over Privatisation and Restitution of Property after 1989”, Panel at the SFB Annual Conference “Conflicts over Property”, Erfurt, 5. Oktober 2023.
- “Transformations of Property in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: Reconfigurations of Ownership and Alternatives to Private Property.” international Workshop, Jena, 20. Oktober 2022 - see the conference report by Liselore Durousset in H-Soz-Kult (15.05.2023)