Local Self-Governance and Urban Property Relations: Historical and Present Perspectives

Local Self-Governance and Urban Property Relations: Historical and Present Perspectives

Veranstalter
Silke van Dyk, Markus Kip, Florian Peters & Joachim von Puttkamer (SFB 294 Strukturwandel des Eigentums)
Ausrichter
SFB 294 Strukturwandel des Eigentums
Veranstaltungsort
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Auditorium zur Rosen
Gefördert durch
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
PLZ
07743
Ort
Jena
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
26.10.2023 - 27.10.2023
Von
Florian Peters, Historisches Institut, SFB 294 "Strukturwandel des Eigentums", Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

This workshop brings together new research on diverse struggles over urban property relations from the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe to present efforts to socialize privatized housing estates in Berlin. We aim to spark academic debate by re-assessing past endeavours to self-governance and contrast them with new insights from research on ongoing struggles for the city.

Local Self-Governance and Urban Property Relations: Historical and Present Perspectives

Urban property relations have recently re-emerged as a key field of political contestation. After decades dominated by the paradigm of privatisation of public goods and services, the question of “Who owns the City?” has sparked new debates and struggles throughout Europe.

At the same time, claims for urban ownership of housing, public space, and local infrastructure draw on an intensified discourse on self-governance. While municipal governments face new expectations for participation from below, self-governance ideas are also realised on smaller scales, such as housing communities, cooperatives, or district committees. Both practices of claiming ownership and experiments in self-governance refer to a broad range of historical traditions. Yet, the relation of self-governance discourses to property issues has been all but straightforward over time.

This workshop brings together new research on diverse struggles over urban property relations from the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe to present efforts to socialize privatized housing estates in Berlin. We aim to spark academic debate by re-assessing past endeavours to self-governance and contrast them with new insights from research on ongoing struggles for the city.

We are looking forward for registrations via anmeldung.sfb-eigentum@uni-jena.de.

Programm

THURSDAY 26 OCTOBER

14:00 - 15:00
Welcome and Introduction to Local Self-Governance and Property Relations
Silke van Dyk, Markus Kip, Florian Peters & Joachim von Puttkamer (Jena)

15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:30
Panel 1: Self-Governance in Housing – Past and Present

Bettina Barthel (Berlin): Self-Governance as Community Control. Roots and Recent Developments of the Community Land Trusts Movement
Tobias Bernet (Berlin): Property and Temporality: Financing Public and Cooperative Housing in German-Speaking Europe – a Long-Term View
Julie Kuschel & Allan Sandham (Hamburg): The Portrayal of Self-Governance Housing Initiatives in the German Public Sphere: A Mixed Methods Analysis

17:30 - 18:15
Break

18:15 - 20:00
PUBLIC EVENT AND DISCUSSION
[in German with English translation]
Ralf Hoffrogge (Potsdam/Initiative Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen):
Von der Fabrik ins Wohnzimmer: Ursprünge und Wiederkehr der Vergesellschaftung

FRIDAY 27 OCTOBER

9:00 - 11:00
Panel 2: Post-Socialist Transformations of Urban Property

Julia Kunikowska (Warsaw): A Village Inside the Capital: Urban Property Relations in Warsaw’s Wolica
Zofia Piotrowska (Warsaw): The Concealed Resources of the Housing Cooperatives in Warsaw: The Impact of the Complex Land Ownership Structure
Marina Sapunova (Karlsruhe): Post-soviet Post-privatisation Modernist Mass Housing Areas Renewal: Between Ownership Anxiety and Self-Responsibility

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:30
Panel 3: New Municipalism: Governing Public and Common Goods

Dona Geagea (Amsterdam): Recommoning Water: Crossing Thresholds Under Citizen-Driven Remunicipalisation in Terrassa and Naples
Victoria Sánchez Belando (Barcelona), Giuseppe Micciarelli (Salerno), Bru Laín (Girona): Communalization and transformation: Governing Urban Goods and Services in Two Southern European Cities
Matthew Thompson (Cardiff): Municipalist Strategy and Foundational Infrastructure in the Post-neoliberal Conjuncture

13:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00
Concluding Discussion

Kontakt

anmeldung.sfb-eigentum@uni-jena.de

https://sfb294-eigentum.de/de/termine/local-self-governance-and-urban-property-relations-historical-and-present-perspectives/
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