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SFB TRR 294Strukturwandel des Eigentums

APPROPRIATE explores different dimensions of property, its political dynamics, social effects and ventures into thinking about alternatives to property. It brings together researchers from different disciplines, activists and policy-makers to discuss their insights and perspectives on a broad spectrum of topics, including the sharing economy, urban commons, housing, natural resources, reproductive medicine, bioeconomy. APPROPRIATE is the podcast of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property” of the Universities of Jena and Erfurt: SFB TRR 294/1–424638267. CC BY-SA, Song Paper Tiger’s Grip by Mid-Air Machine

  1. Buchbesprechung: Umkämpfte Transformation: Konflikte um den digitalen und ökologischen Wandel

    3 days ago

    Buchbesprechung: Umkämpfte Transformation: Konflikte um den digitalen und ökologischen Wandel

    Was ist grüner Kapitalismus, und warum scheitert er? Erleben wir einen autoritär-fossilistischen Backlash? Und was hat die Eigentumsstruktur der Deutschen Post mit Transformationskonflikten und digitalem Wandel zu tun? Darüber spricht Irina Herb, die Hostin dieser Buchbesprechung, mit Steffen Liebig, dem Mitherausgeber des Buchs “Umkämpfte Transformation: Konflikte um den digitalen und ökologischen Wandel” (2025, Campus Verlag). Er stellt die Ergebnisse und den Ansatz der Jenaer “bottom-up”-Transformationsforschung vor und bietet dabei spannende Einblicke in die Entwicklung des DHL-Konzerns. Steffen Liebig und die weiteren Herausgeber:innen Klaus Dörre, Kim Lucht, Lennart Michaelis und Johanna Sittel haben über Jahre Transformationskonflikte in der Stahlindustrie, der Auto(zuliefer)industrie sowie in der Bau- und Logistikbranche erforscht, und dabei ein besonderes Augenmerk auf Eigentumsverhältnisse gelegt. Der Sammelband bündelt diese arbeitssoziologische Forschung und bietet wichtige Beiträge zur Klassenanalyse und Transformationsforschung. Hier geht es zum Buch: https://campus.de/wissenschaft/soziologie/umkaempfte-transformation/CAM52068?srsltid=AfmBOoqoMlMiYKNeZ4vqnjs1P4RVZBFkgMPs29K-3qmRwaiGWP_vknx6 Kurzversion der Einleitung des Buches: https://www.spw.de/transformation-restauration/ Rezension des Buches: https://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/25947 Verantwortlichkeiten: Sprecher: Steffen Liebig Moderation: Irina Herb Redaktion: Irina Herb und Annika Troitzsch Technische Betreuung: Linos Ullmann Website: SFB 294 Strukturwandel des Eigentums Kontakt: appropriate_podcast@protonmail.com

    48 min
  2. Looking Back at Eight Years of Municipalist Government in Barcelona: The movement-party Barcelona en Comú

    15/06/2025

    Looking Back at Eight Years of Municipalist Government in Barcelona: The movement-party Barcelona en Comú

    In this episode, we reflect on the rise, evolution, and legacy of Barcelona en Comú, the emblematic movement-party that governed the city of Barcelona from 2015 to 2023. Joined by long-time activist and former political advisor Elia Gran, as well as researchers Silke van Dyk and Luzie Gerstenhöfer (University of Jena), the conversation explores the key ambitions, successes, and tensions of this bold experiment in municipalist governance. The episode draws from the sociological research project „Public Politics and the Future of the Commons“ to unpack strategic shifts in areas like housing, municipalization of public services as well as social and economic policies. Together, the guests consider what can be learned from the Comuns’ experience, how the party related to social movements and class politics. Now that the Comuns are out of office, the time is ripe for a candid assessment beyond their frequent representation as a European lighthouse case for alternative local politics: What did the municipalist turn achieve—and where did it fall short? Tune in for a rich researcher-activist dialogue on the possibilities and pitfalls of transforming politics from the ground up. Links that our guests talked about during the episode: Repensem Barcelona and the Fundació Sentit Comú. This episode was produced in cooperation with the Urban Political Podcast. Hier geht es zum Buch: https://campus.de/wissenschaft/soziologie/umkaempfte-transformation/CAM52068?srsltid=AfmBOoqoMlMiYKNeZ4vqnjs1P4RVZBFkgMPs29K-3qmRwaiGWP_vknx6 Kurzversion der Einleitung des Buches: https://www.spw.de/transformation-restauration/ Rezension des Buches: https://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/25947 Verantwortlichkeiten: Sprecher: Steffen Liebig Moderation: Irina Herb Redaktion: Irina Herb und Annika Troitzsch Technische Betreuung: Linos Ullmann Website: SFB 294 Strukturwandel des Eigentums Kontakt: appropriate_podcast@protonmail.com

    1hr 25min
  3. From Contested Ownership to (In)Voluntary Returns

    03/12/2024

    From Contested Ownership to (In)Voluntary Returns

    This episode documents the workshop about interdisciplinary perspectives on the postcolonial fight for restitution and reparation. In the beginning, the organizers of the workshop, Silvan Niedermeier (University of Erfurt) and Sahra Rausch (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), will present the event. Afterwords, there is an interview with Flower Manase (National Museum of Tanzania) conducted by Aari Hönning (University of Erfurt). The interdisciplinary workshop aimed to reassess the fight for repatriation and restitution by bringing together questions of ownership and voluntariness that are addressed in the Collaborative Research Center “Structural Change of Property” (Universities Erfurt and Jena) and the DFG-Research Unit on “Voluntariness” (Universities of Erfurt, Jena and Oldenburg). As part of the workshop, Flower Manase spoke about Restitution and the Question of “Cultural Belongings/Properties Ownership” in Tanzania. In the interview, she talks about her motivation, experiences and challenges during her work as one of the curators of the National Museum of Tanzania. Links: Flower Manase’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flower-manase-4b432426/ Aari Hönning’s Podcast: https://podcasts.social/@Vergangenes_in_Wort_und_Bild Hier geht es zum Buch: https://campus.de/wissenschaft/soziologie/umkaempfte-transformation/CAM52068?srsltid=AfmBOoqoMlMiYKNeZ4vqnjs1P4RVZBFkgMPs29K-3qmRwaiGWP_vknx6 Kurzversion der Einleitung des Buches: https://www.spw.de/transformation-restauration/ Rezension des Buches: https://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/25947 Verantwortlichkeiten: Sprecher: Steffen Liebig Moderation: Irina Herb Redaktion: Irina Herb und Annika Troitzsch Technische Betreuung: Linos Ullmann Website: SFB 294 Strukturwandel des Eigentums Kontakt: appropriate_podcast@protonmail.com

    46 min
  4. In Conversation with Clara Salazar (The Urban Lives of Property Series IV)

    29/05/2024

    In Conversation with Clara Salazar (The Urban Lives of Property Series IV)

    In this inaugural Spanish-language episode of the Urban Lives of Property Series, Clara Salazar delves into the history and concept of the ejidos—collective forms of land ownership introduced by the Mexican Revolution in 1917. Following this, the state began redistributing land to impoverished farmers under the condition that they organize themselves into collectives. Ejidal land, which was typically rural land, could not be sold. The significance of the ejidos persists to this day, although this form of collective ownerships has been the subject of numerous struggles and controversies. In 1992, the rights to ejidal lands were liberalized to permit their sale. Concurrently, the rights associated with private property were strengthened, providing powerful private owners with nearly unmatched opportunities to manage and profit from their lands, leveraging surplus value through public infrastructure provision while offering minimal compensation in return. Meanwhile, self-managed settlements by poor urbanites dwelling informally on the outskirts of metropolises have increasingly encroached upon ejidal land, leading to a parceling of the land and a profound transformation of Mexican cities. Against this backdrop, Clara Salazar makes a compelling case for enhancing public capacities to regulate urban land and to capture surplus value—a challenge that many Latin American countries face, alongside the ongoing evolution of property forms that separate land and housing ownership. An English translation of the transcript is available for download. This episode is a collaboration with the Urban Political Podcast. Hier geht es zum Buch: https://campus.de/wissenschaft/soziologie/umkaempfte-transformation/CAM52068?srsltid=AfmBOoqoMlMiYKNeZ4vqnjs1P4RVZBFkgMPs29K-3qmRwaiGWP_vknx6 Kurzversion der Einleitung des Buches: https://www.spw.de/transformation-restauration/ Rezension des Buches: https://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/25947 Verantwortlichkeiten: Sprecher: Steffen Liebig Moderation: Irina Herb Redaktion: Irina Herb und Annika Troitzsch Technische Betreuung: Linos Ullmann Website: SFB 294 Strukturwandel des Eigentums Kontakt: appropriate_podcast@protonmail.com

    1hr 5min
  5. In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III) - Property, Planning and Institutional Power: A

    29/02/2024

    In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III) - Property, Planning and Institutional Power: A

    This episode of the Urban Lives of Property Series expands discussions geographically and conceptually: Our guest in this episode, Jean-David Gerber, helps us think property from Switzerland and other places. He speaks with the hosts Hanna Hilbrandt and Markus Kip. Starting off with the observation that there is no single understanding of property, Jean-David argues that it is important for any consideration to be context-specific and to realize that property is not the same as propriété or Eigentum. Jean-David elaborates on his approach to property on the basis of the Institutional Resource Regime framework that he has been working on with colleagues for many years. Based on his fieldwork in Ghana, Senegal and Switzerland, he discusses the application of the framework aimed to consider the combined effects of public policies and property rights on the use of resources and the users themselves. Focusing on the case of Switzerland, he talks us through the legacy and ongoing relevance of old forms of collective property in forests and shared pastures in the mountains. Moving to the debate around new (urban) commons, the episode also covers current struggles and conflicts around the land policy paradigm in Switzerland, as well as new ideas in planning to exercise greater influence in urban development in the public interest. Hier geht es zum Buch: https://campus.de/wissenschaft/soziologie/umkaempfte-transformation/CAM52068?srsltid=AfmBOoqoMlMiYKNeZ4vqnjs1P4RVZBFkgMPs29K-3qmRwaiGWP_vknx6 Kurzversion der Einleitung des Buches: https://www.spw.de/transformation-restauration/ Rezension des Buches: https://www.rkm-journal.de/archives/25947 Verantwortlichkeiten: Sprecher: Steffen Liebig Moderation: Irina Herb Redaktion: Irina Herb und Annika Troitzsch Technische Betreuung: Linos Ullmann Website: SFB 294 Strukturwandel des Eigentums Kontakt: appropriate_podcast@protonmail.com

    1hr 16min

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APPROPRIATE explores different dimensions of property, its political dynamics, social effects and ventures into thinking about alternatives to property. It brings together researchers from different disciplines, activists and policy-makers to discuss their insights and perspectives on a broad spectrum of topics, including the sharing economy, urban commons, housing, natural resources, reproductive medicine, bioeconomy. APPROPRIATE is the podcast of the Collaborative Research Centre “Structural Change of Property” of the Universities of Jena and Erfurt: SFB TRR 294/1–424638267. CC BY-SA, Song Paper Tiger’s Grip by Mid-Air Machine