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Habitat as a security: Pledged property and financialisation (A07)

Subject Area Empirical Social Research
Term since 2021
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 424638267
 
The project investigates residential property under conditions of financialisation in Madrid and Detroit. It seeks to find out how property changes when it is used to secure financialised debt relations, which are characterised by the global distribution and concatenation of debts and titles of ownership. The project establishes a theory of obligation from the perspective of cultural sociology to describe the contractual, material, political and familial duties which transform property into a security for financial products. It uses Madrid and Detroit as its urban laboratories to examine how residential property becomes a stabilising as well as controversial component of social structural change.
DFG Programme CRC/Transregios
Applicant Institution Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
 
 

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