Debating the public sphere and the future of the commons: Property relations in the context of welfare state transformation (C04)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 424638267

The project investigates how austerity and its (primarily local) counter movements bring about a structural change of property that is mediated by the welfare state. In concrete terms, it explores two urban contexts in Spain and the United Kingdom, respectively. The researchers focus on three issues: firstly, how the dynamics involved restruc¬ture the interplay between public, private and common property, secondly, the role of social rights and non-own¬ership-based sharing arrangements as potential equivalents to ownership, and thirdly, how the basic institution of the welfare state may undergo a transformation of its own in this process.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 294: Strukturwandel des Eigentums
• Applicant Institution: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Silke van Dyk