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A01 Divine Property. Solutions from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject A01 in SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project explores various historical and conceptual foundations underlying the structural change of and through property with a view to religious practices and theories. (Funding phase 1)
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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C01 Hybrid ownership structures in state capitalism. Ownership-based society, socio-economic differentiation and Governmentality analysed through the example of Shenzhen, China
Project management
Prof. Dr. Carsten Herrmann-Pillath Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject C01 in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". The project explores the interdependencies at play between the hybrid land ownership rights and the emergence of structures that are characteristic of property-based societies following China’s transformation into a market economy. It further investigates how this process yields new relationships between state and society (Governmentality). (Funding phase 1)
C06 Making things available. Ownership as an incarnation of our relationship with the world
Project management
Several Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
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)
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)
Clash or Convergence of Capitalisms. Property Conflicts over Chinese Direct Investments in Germany and the European Union
Project management
PD Dr. Stefan Schmalz Duration
01/2021 - 12/2024
Subproject in the SFB TRR294 "Structural Change of Property". This project aims to analyse ownership conflicts arising from Chinese direct investments in Germany and the EU.
Cooperation Project "Local Politicization of Global Norms"
Project management
Several Duration
01/2014 - 12/2017 Funding
Several donors
490 000 €
André Brodocz: The project examines the conditions under which egalitarian norms with a global claim to validity (such as human rights, sustainability, rule of law) actually find acceptance.
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Hidden Histories: Frauen in ländlichen Entwicklungsprogrammen in Indien, c. 1920–1966
Project management
Dr. Maria Framke Duration
08/2021 - 07/2024 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
335 000 €
The project is dedicated to contributions of Indian women to rural development programmes from about 1920 to 1966, following the call to include gender as a category of analysis in the history of development. The aim of the project is to examine the role of women in the design and implementation of governmental and non-governmental rural development projects in India in the key areas of health, education and livelihoods, and in this way to re-capture the processes of development and citizenship.…
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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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M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies "Metamorphoses of the Political" (ICAS-MP)
Project management
Several Duration
08/2015 - 06/2027 Funding
Several donors
380 519 €
Martin Fuchs: ICAS-MP combines the benefits of an open, interdisciplinary forum for intellectual exchange with the advantages of a cutting-edge research centre. The centre focuses on key political processes that have emerged in parallel in many parts of the world during the twentieth century through to the present day, processes that are entangled yet heterogeneous.
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SFB TRR294 "Strukturwandel des Eigentums"
Project management
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa Duration
01/2021 - 12/2028 Funding
Several donors
23 400 000 €
The Sonderforschungsbereich aims to (re)gain a comprehensive socio-theoretical perspective on property and to investigate an assumed structural change of property in the present. The aim is to a) re-explore historical and conceptual foundations of the Western property system, b) empirically investigate current conflicts over private property, and c) analyse alternatives to (private) property.

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