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SUMMARY:City Seminar: Joana Kusiak - Joanna Kusiak\, University of Cambrid
 ge
DTSTART:20190611T163000Z
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CONTACT:Tanvi
DESCRIPTION:*Nationalization from the Grassroots? Berlin Housing Struggles
  and the Memory of Law*\nJoanna Kusiak\, Kings College\, University of Cam
 bridge\n\nCan we collectively decide to expropriate our greedy landlords? 
 While nationalization is often assumed to be a top-down\, state-led interv
 ention\, Berlin’s popular movement Deutsche Wohnen Enteignen is currentl
 y seeking to expropriate predatory real-estate corporations from below. Th
 e key leverage is Article 15 of the German constitution (Grundgesetz)\, wr
 itten in the context of the postwar political restructuring of the German 
 state. This legal clause makes it possible to turn land\, natural resource
 s or means of production into social ownership for the common good of the 
 society. But can the intrinsically capitalist rule of law really include a
  window to socialism? Forging a radical proposal to solve the housing cris
 is\, Berlin activists are working simultaneously from within and from with
 out the German legal system\, both politicizing the law and exploring its 
 limits.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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