Frank Eckardt

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Frank Eckardt (born January 15, 1967 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German urban researcher.

Life

From 1986 to 1988 he completed vocational training as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk at Eisen und Metall AG in Gelsenkirchen and from 1990 to 1994 as a specialist in psychiatry at the Delft Psychiatric Hospital in the Netherlands. From 1989 to 1994 he lived in the Netherlands, where he also did his community service at the Rotterdam refugee agency. From 1994 to 1999 he studied Political Science, Modern and Medieval History and German Philology at the University of Kassel and received his doctorate in Political Science in 2002.

He has been working at the Bauhaus University Weimar since 1999 , initially as a research assistant, from 2002 as a junior professor and, since his habilitation in 2009, as a professor of urban social research. In 2007 he also held the Alfred Grosser Chair for Political Science at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and was a substitute professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt (Chair of Urban Sociology) in 2008 and 2009 . Since he was 15, Frank Eckardt has produced articles in the journalistic field for a wide variety of media. From 1995 to 2012 he wrote monthly and bimonthly articles for the magazine “Forum Kommune”.

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The starting point of his work is earlier journalistic research on various urban problems. In the nineties, this included articles on questions of multicultural society, in particular the refugee problem and development policy, on issues of coming to terms with the past (colonialism, World War II). During the course of study and through research stays in Africa (Mozambique) and Asia (China, Indonesia), an increased preoccupation with issues of urban society emerged.

In his academic career, the theoretical debate about the effects of globalization on cities came to the fore. As a founding member of the Institute for European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar, he has since endeavored to bring social science issues into the training of urban planners and architects. This includes in particular the problem of citizen participation and the exclusion and poverty problems of cities.

selected Writings

  • Urban research. Subject and methods. Publishing house for social sciences, Wiesbaden 2014.
  • (Ed.): Handbuch Stadtsoziologie. Publishing house for social sciences, Wiesbaden 2012.
  • The complex city. Orientations in the urban labyrinth. Publishing house for social sciences, Wiesbaden 2009.
  • City Sociology. Transcript, Bielefeld 2004.
  • Pim Fortuyn and the Netherlands , Marburg: Tectum-Verlag, 2003
  • A peripheral society , Marburg: Tectum-Verlag, 2002

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personal data
SURNAME Eckardt, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German urban researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 15th January 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen