Fabian Kessl

Fabian Kessl (* in Rottweil ) is a German educational and political scientist.

Life

After studying with Micha Brumlik , Volker Lenhart , Klaus von Beyme and Manfred G. Schmidt at the University of Heidelberg , Kessl received his doctorate in 2004 at the Faculty of Education at the University of Bielefeld as a member of the DFG graduate program “Youth Welfare in Transition”. The subject of his dissertation, for which he received the prize from the Westphalian-Lippian University Society, was "The use of one's own strengths: for the government of the social" (first reviewer: Hans-Uwe Otto ). From 2008 to 2018 Kessl worked as a university professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen . Since then he has held the same position at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Wuppertal .

Kessl is a member of the editorial team of the magazine “contradictions”, managing director of the international online journal “ Social Work & Society ” and co-editor of the social passages.

From 2007 to 2013 Kessl was a member of the board of the Social Pedagogy Commission in the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE). From 2014 to 2018 he was an elected member of the full board. In March 2018, Kessl was responsible for the 26th DGfE congress in Essen as the spokesman for the local organizing committee.

Since 2011 he has been part of the board of trustees of the Solidarity Modern Institute (ISM) and one of the five board spokesmen since 2012.

Kessl works as a liaison professor at the Hans Böckler Foundation (HBS).

From 2016 to 2018 he was appointed expert of the study commission “Child protection and children's rights further strengthening” of the Hamburg citizenship.

In June 2011 the NRW Minister of Science Svenja Schulze opened the doctoral program “Contradictions in Societal Integration. On the Transformation of Social Work ”of the Hans Böckler Foundation , Kessl was its spokesman until 2015. From the cross-university cooperation there between the University of Duisburg-Essen and several North Rhine-Westphalian universities of applied sciences, the PhD program "Living in the transformed welfare state" (TransSoz) emerged in 2013, in which Kessl was active as a university lecturer until 2016.

Works (books; selection)

• Kessl, Fabian / Otto, Hans-Uwe (eds.) (2004): Social work and social capital. On the criticism of local community. Wiesbaden: VS
• Kessl, Fabian (2005): The use of one's own strength. A governmentality of social work. Weinheim / Munich: BeltzJuventa [2. Edition 2019]
• Kessl, Fabian / Reutlinger, Christian / Maurer, Susanne / Frey, Oliver (eds.) (2005): Handbuch Sozialraum. Wiesbaden: VS [2. revised new edition 2019, ed. by Fabian Kessl & Christian Reutlinger]
• Kessl, Fabian / Otto, Hans-Uwe (eds.) (2007): Territorialization of the social. Rule over social proximity. Opladen / Farmington Hills: Barbara Budrich
• Kessl, Fabian / Reutlinger, Christian / Ziegler, Holger (eds.) (2007): Education for poverty? Social work and the "new lower class". Wiesbaden: VS
• Kessl, Fabian / Reutlinger, Christian (2007): Social space - an introduction. Wiesbaden: VS [2. Edition: 2010]       
• Kessl, Fabian / Otto, Hans-Uwe (eds.) (2009): Social work without a welfare state? Time diagnoses, problematizations and perspectives. Weinheim / Munich: BeltzJuventa
• Kessl, Fabian / Plößer, Melanie (Eds.) (2010): Differentiation, normalization, otherness. Social work as work with others. Wiesbaden: VS
• Kessl, Fabian (2013): Social work in the transformation of the social. A location determination. Wiesbaden: VS
• Fegter, Susann / Langer, Antje / Ott, Marion / Rothe, Daniela / Wrana, Daniel (eds.) (2015): Discourse-analytical approaches to educational relationships: power - discourse - education. Wiesbaden: VS
• Dirks, Sebastian / Kessl, Fabian / Lippelt, Maike / Wienand, Carmen (2016): Urban space (re) production: Social work makes the city. Münster: Westphalian steamboat
• Kessl, Fabian / Lorenz, Friederike (2016): Violent constellations in inpatient integration assistance - a case study. Issue 16 of the articles on the theory and practice of youth welfare, ed. from the Evangelical Education Association. Hanover: EREV    
• Kessl, Fabian / Kruse, Elke / Stövesand, Sabine / Thole, Werner (eds.) (2017): Social work - core topics and problem areas, Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich
• Dirks, Sebastian / Kessl, Fabian / Obert, Hannah (2019): Innovation through small spaces? Social space orientation in youth welfare - using the example of the general social services in North Rhine Westphalia. Düsseldorf: Research Institute for Social Development (FGW)
• Kessl, Fabian / Lorenz, Walter / Otto, Hans-Uwe / White, Sue (eds.) (2020): European Social Work - A Compendium. Opladen / Berlin / Toronto: Barbara Budrich Publishers
• Ackeren, Isabell van / Bremer, Helmut / Kessl, Fabian / Koller, Hans Christoph / Pfaff, Nicolle / Rotter, Caroline / Klein, Dominique / Salaschek, Ulrich (eds.) (2020): Movements - Contributions to the 26th Congress of Germans Society for Educational Science. Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich

Web links

• Literature by and about Fabian Kessl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kessl on the website of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal