Gisela Riescher
Gisela Riescher (born February 27, 1957 in Eichendorf ) is a German political scientist and university professor .
Career
After graduating from high school, Riescher studied political science , history and modern German literature . After completing her master's degree in 1982, she took up a position as a research assistant with Theo Stammen at the University of Augsburg. In 1987 she became a community as home with a work . Doctorate on the political-anthropological dimension of local politics , the habilitation followed also in Augsburg in 1993 with a thesis on time and politics. On the institutional significance of time structures in parliamentary and presidential systems of government. This was followed by substitute professorships at the University of Munich for Kurt Sontheimer and at the University of Freiburg for Wolfgang Jäger .
In the 1999/2000 winter semester, Riescher accepted a professorship for Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas at the Department of Scientific Politics at the University of Freiburg. Riescher is chairwoman of the Freiburg Science Forum and, since 2009, founding rector of the Freiburg Center for Security and Society .
Research priorities
Riescher set eight main research areas for her chair in Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas : Political Theory of the Present , Theory of Parliamentarism , Theories of Social Justice , Security and Society , Friends, Patrons, Faithful , who mainly deals with friendship, gift exchange and patron clients - Pre-modern relations, gender studies and politics and time and monarchy .
Fonts
Riescher is editor of the publication series Spectrum Political Science and Political Science Theories at Ergon-Verlag and Kohlhammer Focus on Politics at Kohlhammer Verlag and Security and Society. Freiburg studies by the Center for Security and Society at Nomos Verlag .
- with Marcus Obrecht, Tobias Haas: Theories of Comparative Government. An introduction. Oldenbourg, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58903-0 .
- (Ed.): Security and freedom instead of terror and fear. Perspectives of a democratic security (= security and society. Vol. 2). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-5496-3 .
- with Alexander Thumfart (Ed.): Monarchien. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3827-7 .
- (Ed.): Political theory of the present in individual presentations. From Adorno to Young (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 343). Kröner, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-520-34301-0 .
- with Christoph M. Haas, Sabine Ruß (Ed.): Second chambers. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 2000, ISBN 3-486-25089-2 (2nd, revised and expanded edition. Ibid 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-58312-0 ).
- with Ingeborg Villinger, Jürgen Rüland (Ed.): Politics & Responsibility. Festival ceremony for Wolfgang Jäger on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Rombach, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2000, ISBN 3-7930-9262-3 .
- with Wilhelm Hofmann : Introduction to the theory of parliamentarism. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-534-12977-6 .
- with Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Arno Waschkuhn (Ed.): Political scientific reflections. Discourse of ideas - Institutional issues - Political culture and language. Festschrift for Theo Stammen on his 65th birthday. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-531-13274-1 .
- with Theo Stammen , Wilhelm Hofmann (ed.): Major works of political theory (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 379). Kröner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-520-37901-5 (2nd, updated and expanded edition. Ibid 2007, ISBN 978-3-520-37902-3 ).
- Time and politics. On the institutional significance of time structures in parliamentary and presidential systems of government. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3655-2 (at the same time: Augsburg, University, habilitation paper).
- Community as home. The political-anthropological dimension of local politics (= tuduv studies. Political science series. Vol. 21). tuduv, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-88073-286-8 (At the same time: Augsburg, Universität, Dissertation, 1987).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gisela Riescher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gisela Riescher on the website of the University of Freiburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riescher, Gisela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German political scientist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eichendorf |