Alban Knecht

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Alban Knecht (born June 1968 in Graefelfing near Munich ) is a German sociologist and social worker .

Life

Alban Knecht studied economics at the Universities of Munich and Freiburg , social work at the University of Munich and sociology and social psychology at the University of Munich (with Ulrich Beck , Gerhard Tutz , Heiner Keupp , Angelika Poferl and Manfred Cramer).

In 2011 he received his doctorate there. In his dissertation, entitled “Producing Quality of Life”, he deals with a resource-oriented and socio-epidemiological further development of the Capability Approach . He closed the institutional gap in the empowerment approach with a socio-political resource theory with reference to the theory of the welfare regime by Gøsta Esping-Andersen (reviewer: Angelika Poferl, Ulrich Beck , Heiner Keupp ).

Since 2008 he has been teaching at the University of Munich , since 2012 he has also taught and researched in Austria, a. a. at the University of Linz , the FH Campus Wien and the University of Vienna . Since 2019 he has been teaching and researching at the Institute for Educational Science and Educational Research in the department of Social Pedagogy and Inclusion Research at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt / Celovec .

Between 1998 and 2012 he was the managing director of the medium-sized Knecht und Partner GmbH ; from 2013 he worked at Volkshilfe Austria ; later also at the poverty conference - the Austrian network against poverty and exclusion . He is still a member of the scientific advisory board of this institution as well as advisory board of the social inequality section of the Austrian Society for Sociology and the socio-educational journal Neue Praxis .

His main research interests are poverty research, social policy , quality of life research and the development of a socio-political resource theory . He also works on informal livelihoods such as bottle collecting. Alban Knecht writes journalistic articles for newspapers and magazines, including for Augustin (Vienna) and Der Standard .

Together with Philipp Catterfeld, he wrote the play Ökodation 2028, which addresses the ecological responsibility of modern people in the face of climate change and was premiered as a staged reading in 2005 in the Theater am Sozialamt in Munich.

He lives in Vienna, Klagenfurt and Munich.

Works (books)

  • Poverty Conference / Fabris, Verena / Knecht, Alban u. a. (Ed.) (2018): Attention. Devaluation has a system. The struggle for recognition, appreciation and dignity. Vienna: ÖGB Verlag. ISBN 978-3-99046-395-6 .
  • Catterfeld, Philipp / Knecht, Alban (Ed.) (2015): Flaschensammeln. Survive in the city. Cologne: Herbert von Halem Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7445-0983-1 (print), ISBN 978-3-7445-0985-5 (e-book).
  • Knecht, Alban / Schubert, Franz-Christian (Ed.) (2012): Resources in the welfare state and in social work. Allocation - Promotion - Activation. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. ISBN 978-3-17-021810-9 (print), ISBN 978-3-17-023528-1 (ebook).
  • Knecht, Alban (2010): Producing quality of life. Resource theory and power analysis of the welfare state. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-531-17636-9 (print), ISBN 978-3-531-92573-8 (online).
  • Knecht, Alban (Ed.) (2010): Faces of Poverty. Fourteen miniatures. Series of publications: Munich university writings for applied social sciences, vol. 2. Neu-Ulm: AG SPAK books of the association for the promotion of socio-political work. ISBN 978-3-940865-12-0
  • Knecht, Alban / Catterfeld, Philipp (2008): Ecodation 2028. A play. Norderstedt: BoD-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8334-9106-1 .
  • Knecht, Alban (2002): Bürgergeld. Fight poverty without social assistance. Negative income tax, combined wages, community work and RMI as new ways. Bern, Vienna, Stuttgart: Haupt Verlag. ISBN 3-258-06487-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Servant, Alban
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and social worker
DATE OF BIRTH June 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefelfing near Munich