Gudrun Perko

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Gudrun Perko (born December 16, 1962 in Knappenberg , Carinthia ) is an Austrian philosopher , university professor and mediator .

Life

Gudrun Perko attended the Academy for Social Work of the City of Vienna from 1982 to 1985 and graduated with a diploma. From 1986 she studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and in 1996 she worked with Franz Martin Wimmer with a dissertation on fear in excess. Philosophical Reflections on designs of fear in terms of gender relations with distinction for doctor of philosophy doctorate . From 1982 to 2000 Perko worked in various areas of social work such as youth centers, psychosocial service and biography work with women. From 1997 until she took up her professorship at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences in 2010, she mainly worked as a freelance lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Vienna, Alice Salomon University Berlin , as a mediator and as a trainer in adult education. Perko began publishing and conducting research projects in 1993. She has published both political and philosophical works, including on queer theory , where she established the plural queer approach, as well as textbooks and handbooks on gender / queer, social justice and diversity.

In 1996 Gudrun Perko founded the Institute for Science Coaching, Philosophical Further Education and Mediation and, after further training at the Alice Salomon University, also worked as a freelance conflict mediator . Inspired by the “Diversity and Social Justice Education” model developed at the University of Massachusetts , together with Leah Carola Czollek and Heike Weinbach , she designed her own social justice and diversity training for the German-speaking area in 2001 with the focus on diversity as an answer to structural discrimination in favor of inclusion and participation. In 2005, together with Leah Carola Czollek and Heike Weinbach, they founded the Institute Social Justice and Diversity , which provides training for specialists in social institutions, employees of companies, organizations and institutions, students, etc. in cooperation with the DGB-Bildungswerk , Alice-Salomon , among others -Hochschule Berlin and since 2012 the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam . While the educational and training concept was initially based on the Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice concept developed in the USA (Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin 1997), many years of intensive occupation with the topic resulted in many Changes, specifications and, above all, updates made in the context of the Federal Republic of Germany.

She lives in Berlin.

Fonts

As a (co-) author

  • Insights of the imagination. Effects and modes of operation of the imagination , Centaurus Verlag , Pfaffenweiler 1993
  • Phenomena of fear. Gender - History - Violence (with Alice Pechriggl), Women's Research Series Volume 33, Wiener Frauenverlag, Vienna 1996
  • Queer theories. Ethical, political and logical dimensions of plural queer thinking , PapyRossa-Hochschulschriften Volume 60, Cologne 2005
  • Textbook Gender and Queer. Basics, methods and fields of practice , (with Leah Carola Czollek and Heike Weinbach), Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim, Munich 2009
  • Ethics for social professions (with Ruth Groß Maß ), Schöningh, Paderborn 2011
  • Practical handbook Social Justice and Diversity. Theories, training, methods, exercises , Beltz Juventa, Weinheim, Basel 2012
  • A formula remains a formula ... Gender / queer and diversity-appropriate didactics at universities: an intersectional approach , with Leah Carola Czollek, Ed. FH-Campus Wien, revised new edition (first published in 2008), Vienna 2015
  • Plurality - potential for conflict - measures. Guidelines for the implementation of diversity at universities, series: Atmosphere of Recognition, edited by the Equal Opportunities Council of the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam 2017
  • Leah Carola Czollek / Gudrun Perko / Corinne Kaszner / Max Czollek: Practical Guide Social Justice and Diversity. Theories, training, methods, exercises (2nd, completely revised and expanded edition), Beltz / Juventa, Weinheim Basel 2019

As (co-editor)

  • Mother joke. The mother phenomenon - a design between powerlessness and omnipotence , Milena Verlag, Vienna 1998 (second edition 2001)
  • Enjoy the meal. Women between seventy and one hundred tell from their memories , Milena Verlag, Vienna 2000
  • Understanding in dark times. Intercultural dialogues instead of "Clash of Civilizations" , PapyRossa, Cologne 2003. In it: Gudrun Perko: Respectful dealings. On dialogue, the idea of ​​the dialogical and the role of the imagination - from Socrates to Arendt and Castoriadis , pp. 14–43.
  • Interface teaching and coaching (with Katharina Pewny and Reginalik), project center for the advancement of women at the University of Vienna 2003
  • Pleasure in thinking. Queer beyond cultural locations. Questioning queer theories and queer practice with regard to their transferability to various socio-political areas (with Leah Carola Czollek), PapyRossa-Hochschulschriften Volume. 53, Cologne 2004. Full text on pdf
  • Scientific writing in university teaching. Reflections, desiderata, concepts (with Walter Kissling), Studienverlag Innsbruck 2006
  • Social Justice as a social and political project , magazine: Quer. think read write, acc. with the Women's Council and the Women's Representative of the Alice Salomon University for Social Work / Social Pedagogy and Nursing / Nursing Management, No. 18/12, Berlin 2012
  • Philosophy in Social Work , Beltz / Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 2017. Therein: Gudrun Perko: Social Justice in the Sign of Diversity, Plurality and Diversity of Perspectives: Philosophical Foundations for Discrimination-Critical Social Work

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Perko, Gudrun / Czollek, Leah Carola (2012): Social Justice and Diversity Training: Intersectionality as a diversity model and structural analysis of discrimination and exclusion . Intersectionality portal, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
  2. ↑ Review by Ingvild Birkhan in: L'Homme. European journal of feminist history . Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 339-340, ISSN (Online) 2194-5071, ISSN (Print) 1016-362X, doi: 10.7767 / lhomme.1997.8.2.339 , December 1997
  3. ↑ Stefan Göhlert, review of: Gudrun Perko: Queer-Theorien, Cologne 2005 , in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft , published on June 25, 2007.
  4. ↑ Review by Melanie Plößer, in: socialnet reviews 2010
  5. ↑ Review by Anton Schlitt Maier, in: socialnet
  6. ^ Review by Antje Krueger, in: socialnet
  7. ↑ Bettina Fraisl: ( De- ) constructions of the mother , review in: Freiburger FrauenStudien 13/2003, p. 295f., Pdf
  8. ↑ Natalie Wohlleben: Review of: Leah Carola Czollek, Gudrun Perko: Understanding in dark times. Cologne 2003, in: Portal for Political Science , published on January 1, 2006.
  9. ↑ Review by Karin S. Wozonig in: L'Homme ., Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 167-169, ISSN (Online) 2194-5071, ISSN (Print) 1016-362X, doi: 10.7767 / lhomme.2004.15.1.167 , June 2004
personal data
SURNAME Perko, Gudrun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social worker and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Knappenberg, Carinthia