Research projects

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A01: Ambiguous Property: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Project management
Several Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject A01 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property occupies a key position in the constitution and reproduction of relations between things, social relations and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
A02 Property in one’s own body and in the bodies of others in the United States between the eighteenth and twentieth century
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject A02 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The subproject explores the ownership of others’ bodies based on the history of slavery in the USA. (Funding phase 1)
A02: Racial Capitalism: Property Relationships of Black Families in the Age of Segregation
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject A02 in SFB TRR294 ‘Structural Change in Property’. The project is based on the recognition that property plays a key role in the constitution and reproduction of material, social and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
A03 Property and habit. On the political anthropology of ownership in Western modernity
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject A03 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project is dedicated to the political anthropology of ownership between the eighteenth and early twentieth century. It investigates an assumption that is widespread in the humanities: that ownership structures bring about the formation of specific habits. (Funding phase 1)
A03: Property as a Medium of Habit Formation: On the Political Anthropology of Property in the 19th Century
Project management
Several Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject A03 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property occupies a key position in the constitution and reproduction of relations between things, social relations and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
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B01 Urban property regimes and citizenship in transition. Changing ownership patterns and systems of relatedness in India
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject B01 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The study seeks to harness the explicatory power of property for understanding the shifting societal systems and their underlying normative frameworks in post-liberalised India.(Funding phase 1)
B01: Contestation over Property Regimes and Housing: (Un)doing Commodified Urban Land Ownership in India and Germany
Project management
Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject B01 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property plays a key role in the constitution and reproduction of relations between things, social relations and self-relations. (Funding phase 1)
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C06: Property as a World Relationship: Disposal, Care, Use: A Comparative Analysis in Ger-many and China
Project management
Several Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject C06 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property occupies a key position in the constitution and reproduction of relations between things, social relations and self-relations. (Funding phase 2)
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Establishment of an oral history research centre
Duration
09/2021 - 09/2025
The research centre focuses on the "East German experience". The research centre takes up the specifics of the GDR and transformation period and discusses the methodology of oral history in this context. As a central institution of this kind in the East German Länder, the research centre is to be expanded into a supra-regional centre and, in terms of its design, be a building block of the nationwide network of oral history institutions that is currently being established.
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JRT05: Private debt and property formation in the context of historical upheavals in Germany and the USA
Project management
PD Dr. Felix Krämer Duration
01/2025 - 12/2028
Subproject JRT05 in the CRC TRR294 ‘Structural Change of Property’. The starting point of the project is the realisation that property occupies a key position in the constitution and reproduction of relations of things, social relations and self-relations.
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Lived Ancient Religion – Questioning "Cults" and "Polis Religion"
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke Duration
06/2013 - 05/2017 Funding
European Research Council (ERC):
2 300 000 €
Jörg Rüpke: This project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), takes a completely new perspective on the religious history of Mediterranean antiquity, starting from the individual and "lived" religion instead of cities or peoples. "Lived ancient religion" suggests a set of experiences, of practices addressed to, and conceptions of the divine, which are appropriated, expressed, and shared by individuals in diverse social spaces.
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Nutrition, Health and Modern Society: Germany and the United States
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat Duration
10/2015 - 10/2018 Funding
VolkswagenStiftung:
1 000 000 €
The research project aims to work out the significance of nutrition and health for the order of modern societies from the 19th century to the present. The empirical focus is on the USA and Germany, so that regional differences as well as the dynamics of interdependence in globalizing constellations become apparent.
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The Eating Self
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat Duration
10/2012 - 04/2017 Funding
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung:
24 000 €
Obesity is currently described as a problem that is assuming epidemic proportions in modern societies, particularly in the USA. Based on this observation, the present project aims to write a history of eating, being obese, health and its regulation in the USA since the middle of the 19th century.
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Voluntariness as Political Practice. The Emerging United States and American Citizenship
Project management
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Martschukat Duration
10/2020 - 09/2023
Subproject in the research group "Voluntariness". The emerging United States is widely regarded as the cradle of liberalism. This “new form of political life,” to quote philosopher Anthony Appiah, took off in the American republic and spawned the “American citizen” as the ideal of the liberal subject. This subproject examines the significance of voluntariness in this process and shows how liberty took on concrete form in the new republic, pointing up the voluntary forms of thinking and acting…

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