Project areas

Overview of projects of the first funding phase
Project Area Objects

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 Dekarbonisierung auf Kosten der Anderen? Eigentumsverhältnisse in der Wasserstoffwirtschaft in Südamerika

Project Area Subjects

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 Privatschulden und Eigentumsbildung im Kontext historischer Umbrüche in Deutschland und den USA

Project Area Systems of Ownership

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 (Medien-)Eigentum im digitalen Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit

Project Area Z

Administrative projects

Z01 Concepts, Categories and Theories: Core project for conceptual integration, societal comparison and the securing of research results

Z01 Zentralprojekt für Ergebnissicherung, Konzeptentwicklung und Gesellschaftsvergleich

Z02 Central Task

Z02 Wissenschaftliche Geschäftsführung und Verwaltung