Funded research projects
#worldrelationship, property, sharing economy
Making Things Available: Property as a specific form of world relation
Direction:
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, University of Jena, Chair of General and Theoretical Sociology
Dr. Jörg Oberthür, University of Jena, Department of General and Theoretical Sociology
Duration:
01.01.2021-31.12.2024
Funding:
DFG, sub-project in Collaborative Research Center 294 “Structural Change of Property”
Collaborators:
PD Dr. Christoph Henning and Henrike Katzer M.A.
Description:
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. It applies qualitative and empirical methods to various practices of the sharing economy to examine whether new forms of ownership and alternative concepts alter that understanding. Assuming a hybrid field with ‘old’ and ‘new’ practices and following a sociology of our relationship to the world, the researchers aim to determine the transformational and reproductive potential inherent to forms of and alternatives to ownership.
More info on the project at: https://sfb294-eigentum.de/en/subprojects/dinge-verfuegbar-machen/External link
#Inequality, class and property relations
Intellectual Property: Social embeddedness and functional equivalents
Direction:
Prof. Dr. Tilman Reitz, University of Jena, Chair of Sociology of Knowledge and Social Theory
Dr. Sebastian Sevignani, University of Jena, Department of General and Theoretical Sociology
Duration:
01.01.2021-31.12.2024
Funding:
DFG, sub-project in special research area 294 “Structural Change of Property”
Collaborators:
Marlen van den Ecker
Description:
The project sets out to understand whether ownership of the public goods of knowledge and information needs to be reorganised in the post-industrial economy. Certain access restrictions have become problematic: how are they enforced and justified? What new structures are being developed to control and utilise knowledge and information, perhaps even without the need for exclusive ownership rights? What conflicts emerge when a small number of players profit from far-reaching processes of intellectual exchange? What solutions may be feasible? During the first round of funding, the researchers intend to examine the ecologies of internet companies and online communities to generate empirically grounded, theoretical answers to these questions.
More info on the project at: https://sfb294-eigentum.de/en/subprojects/geistiges-eigentum/External link
#Technological transformation, digitalization and information society
The Measured Life: Productive and counterproductive consequence of quantification in the digitally optimizing society
Director:
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, University of Jena, Chair of General and Theoretical Sociology
Duration: 01.02.2018-31.01.2021
Funding:
VW Foundation, funding line "Key Themes in Science and Society"
Project participants:
Prof. Dr. Vera King (spokesperson; Goethe University & Sigmund Freud Institute Frankfurt a.M.
Prof. Dr. Benigna Gerisch, International Psychoanalytic University, Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Berlin.
Collaborators:
Dr. Diana Lindner
Description:
"The project focuses on the contradictory consequences of a logic of optimization based largely on quantitative growth, a logic that has acquired additional significance in the course of the digital transition. By means of a threefold project design, the productive and counter-productive dimensions of this 'numbers oriented' approach and of the measurement of life are examined both in the context of organizational and individual optimization processes and with regard to their intersubjective and psychological meanings.
The project thus builds on its predecessor entitled “Aporias of the drive to perfection in accelerated modernity. The contemporary cultural transformation of self-projections, modes of mutual relation and bodily practices” (APAS), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation as part of its programme 'Key Themes in Science and Society'. APAS studied the significance and consequences of demands for the optimization of social practices in different areas of society and in terms of changes to cultural norms and constructs of 'normality' and 'pathology'.” (Source: https://www.sigmund-freud-institut.de/index.php/forschung/forschungsschwerpunkte/das-vermessene-leben-produktive-und-kontraproduktive-folgen-der-quantifizierung-in-der-digital-optimierenden-gesellschaft/External link)
More Information: www.ipu-berlin.deExternal link and www.sigmund-freud-institut.deExternal link