Seminar: Rediscovering the Commons. Urban Living, Commons and Gender

Welcome to the DFG Research Unit “Law – Gender – Collectivity”

Our interdisciplinary Research Unit has been active since January 2018. It brings together scholars of law, sociologists, European ethnologists and historians from the three major Berlin universities, the University of Potsdam and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). Read more…

The Research Unit consists of six sub-projects and a coordinating project. In every sub-project, a team investigates a particular empirical research field. In our second funding phase (2021-2024), these are environmental law and climate litigation (A), transnational labor conflicts (B), urban & housing commons (C), consumer protection (D), processes of infrastructurization (E), and human rights, queer genders and sexualities since the 1970s (F).

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Seminar at the Center for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies, Technical University of Berlin Lecturers: Sabine Hark, Hanna Meißner and Bettina Barthel.

Commons are regulated social relations that produce new forms of collectivization 'from below' and open up possibilities of a "politics beyond market and state".

In the seminar we ask in which respects [gender] is (de-)thematized as a structural category and interdependent identity category in debates on urban and housing commons.

The seminar is part of a research project at ZIFG on discourses and practices of urban housing in communities.

Further information on the ZIFG website.