Max-Weber-Kolleg Religion, Society, and World Relations Knowledge, Spaces, and Media Research

C06 Making things available. Ownership as an incarnation of our relationship with the world

Subproject C06 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". 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. (funding phase 1)

Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024

Project management

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa
Director (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies)
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Dr. Jörg Oberthür

Team

PD Dr. Christoph Henning

Henrike Katzer

Lukas Meisner

Malte Janzing

Main project

Related projects

JRT05: Private debt and property formation in the context of historical upheavals in Germany and the USA PD Dr. Felix Krämer
C06: Property as a World Relationship: Disposal, Care, Use: A Comparative Analysis in Ger-many and China Prof. Dr. Carsten Caspary,
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa,
Dr. Jörg Oberthür
B01: Contestation over Property Regimes and Housing: (Un)doing Commodified Urban Land Ownership in India and Germany Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs
A01: Ambiguous Property: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages Dr. Sofia Bianchi Mancini,
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke,
Prof. Dr. Markus Hermann Vinzent
A03: Property as a Medium of Habit Formation: On the Political Anthropology of Property in the 19th Century Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lothar Kleeberg,
Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow
A02: Racial Capitalism: Property Relationships of Black Families in the Age of Segregation Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat
C01 Hybrid ownership structures Prof. Dr. Carsten Caspary
Clash or Convergence of capitalisms PD Dr. Stefan Schmalz
B01 Urban property regimes Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs,
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Renzi
A03 Property and habit Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lothar Kleeberg,
Prof. Dr. Martin Mulsow
A02 Property in the body Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat,
PD Dr. Felix Krämer
A01 Divine property Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke,
Prof. Dr. Markus Hermann Vinzent

The project applies qualitative and empirical methods to various practices of the sharing economy to examine whether new forms of ownership and alternative concepts alter the understanding of things, society and ourselves.

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.

Property research world relations sharing economy

Cooperation partner

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Universität Oldenburg

TU Darmstadt

FU Berlin

Profile field

Religion, Society, and World Relations

Knowledge, Spaces, and Media