WORKSHOP
In November 2024, we held our first international TES meeting, titled Space | Time | Property. With a strong turnout and high-level discussion, the event took place at the Institute of Sociology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Participants engaged in discussions on a wide range of topics, including space-time in socio-environmental conflicts, automation, incarceration, rights of nature, waiting in healthcare, and much more.
In the words of our Principal Investigator, Felipe Torres:
“The event brought together researchers from Europe and Latin America who are working in diverse ways on spatiotemporal studies. It was an inter- and transdisciplinary gathering, but above all, it was cutting-edge research, where the focus was on observing phenomena and problems from different, controversial, and exploratory angles.”
This was one of our first initiatives, and we warmly invite everyone to stay tuned for upcoming TES activities!
Workshop Poster 2024
SPACE | TIME | PROPERTY
Due to the growing advancement of transnational logics (migration, capital flows) accompanied by the exponential development of communication and transportation technologies that blur space-time barriers, traditional ideas of 'property' and 'ownership' are also undergoing changes.
Under current conditions of concentration and deregulation, the resulting property system has proven to be prone to crises and highly controversial in the face of new economic, political, and technological challenges. It is not only challenged by global financial and economic crises but also by political and local conflicts regarding the appropriation, distribution, and containment of 'property' (private or common) and 'ownership' (individual or shared). Additionally, it is confronted by other dynamics of so-called 'bioeconomies' and/or the 'knowledge
economy,' which are linked to alternative concepts of common property, shared use, and free access to resources. This fluctuating nature of property today means that certain resources, which due to their intangibility and traditionally free availability, are now under significant threat and may be traded or subject to privileges based on location, access, or availability—such as clean air, water, or even time itself.
The Space, Time, Property workshop will address some of these issues as well as other topics of interest related to the challenges and struggles over the definition of property and ownership in different contexts, primarily in Latin America and Europe.