Christian Reutlinger

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Christian Reutlinger (* 1971 in Zurich ) is a Swiss social geographer and educationalist. He is professor and head of the research department of the Institute for Social Work (IFSA) at the FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences.

Life

Reutlinger studied social and cultural geography, social pedagogy and sociology at the University of Zurich (graduation 1998). In 2000 he completed his postgraduate studies in social and human geography as part of the “Programas de Doctorado de Ordenación del Territorio y Medio Ambiente” of the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). In 2001 he received his doctorate in social education and social policy at the Institute for Social Education, Social Work and Welfare Sciences at the Technical University of Dresden. There he completed his habilitation in 2007 with the habilitation thesis Space, Social Development and Enabling. A discourse perspective for social education.

Since 2008 he has been responsible for the interdisciplinary competence center Social Spaces and since 2011 research director of the Institute for Social Work at the FHS St. Gallen. Before that he was a research lecturer at the Institute for Social Work at the FHS St. Gallen in Rorschach and from 2008 to 2011 he was head of the international department at the FHS St. Gallen. Prior to that, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Social Pedagogy, Social Work and Welfare Sciences at TU Dresden and IRIS eV and as a research assistant at the German Youth Institute in Leipzig and Munich.

Between 1999 and 2017 he taught socio-pedagogical and socio-spatial topics at various universities and technical colleges, gave seminars in basic and advanced studies, respectively. Bachelor and master level, e.g. at TU Dresden (Faculty of Education), FHS University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Alice Salomon University Berlin, University of Applied Sciences Munich, FHV University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg Dornbirn, Universidad de Zaragoza (Institute for Human Geography and Spatial Planning ), University of Càdiz and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Reutlinger is a member of the Swiss Society for Social Work and works as a reviewer for various national and international research funding institutions.

He is co-editor of various book series, such as the series “Sozialraumforschung und Sozialraumarbeit” (together with Fabian Kessl) of the VS-Verlag, the series “Transposition - Eastern Switzerland Contributions to Teaching, Research and Development of Social Work” (together with Marcel Meier Kressig, Steve Stiehler, Martin Müller, Christine Windisch and Barbara Fontanellaz) by Frank & Timme, the series “Thinking across the social world” (together with Johannes Kniffki), also by Frank & Timme or the series “Comunidad, Transnacionalidad, Trabajo Social. Estudios Transnationales de Trabajo Social ”(together with Johannes Kniffki) by Editorial Popular. He is also co-editor of the online magazine www.sozialraum.de (together with Ulrich Deinet, Richard Krisch and Christian Spatscheck ).

Research priorities

  • Socio-educational social space research and social space work in the focus
  • Housing and neighborhoods with the focus on the return of the housing question, the criticism of spatial images, social neighborhoods
  • Public life and participation with a focus on public space, community approaches in international comparison, inter- and transnational social work
  • Education and growing up with a focus on the social geography of children and young people, educational spaces
  • Interdisciplinary cooperation with a focus on settlement area development

Publications (selection)

  • Do we make the world as we like it? A socio-geographical reader . Seismo, Zurich: 2016.
  • together with Caroline Fritsche, Markus Markstaler, Andrea Schemmel, Martin Schlatter and Frieder Voll: On the interplay between the disciplines. University of Applied Sciences Eastern Switzerland, St.Gallen 2015.
  • together with Eva Lingg and Steve Stiehler: Social Neighborhoods . Springer VS (series: social space research and social space work), Wiesbaden 2015.
  • together with Raimund Kemper: Contested public space. Challenges for planning and youth work t . Springer VS (series: social space research and social space work), Wiesbaden 2015.
  • together with Ulrich Deinet: Activity - Acquisition - Education. Positioning between virtuality and objectivity . Springer VS (series: social space research and social space work), Wiesbaden 2014.
  • together with Fabian Kessl: Urban play spaces. Education and urban development. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013. Together with Peter Rahn and Caroline Fritsche: Quartier makes school. Children's perspective. Springer VS (series: social space research and social space work), Wiesbaden 2011.
  • together with Nadia Baghdadi and Johannes Kniffki: Thinking across the social world. Transnationalization and its consequences for social work. Frank & Timme (Volume 2 Transposition), Berlin 2011.
  • together with Caroline Fritsche and Eva Lingg: Basics of spatial science. An introduction to social work. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2010.
  • together with Fabian Kessl: Textbook Social Room - An Introduction. 2nd Edition. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2010.

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