Hans-Dieter Evers

Hans-Dieter Evers (born December 19, 1935 in Dröbischau , Thuringia , Germany ) has been Professor of Development Planning and Development Policy at Bielefeld University since 1974 , where he headed the research focus on development sociology . Since 2015 he has been visiting professor at the National University of Malaysia (Pok Rafeah Chair Professor).

Life

Since 2001 he has been a Senior Fellow (2004–05 Director) at the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn . He studied economics , geography and sociology at the University of Hamburg , at the then University of Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ) and at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where he received his doctorate in 1962. His doctoral supervisor was Arnold Bergstraesser . He was then a research assistant in Mannheim , lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne , professor of sociology and director of the postgraduate program Southeast Asia at Yale University, USA, and finally professor and director of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Singapore . From 1974 to 2001, Hans-Dieter Evers was full professor for development planning and development policy at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University. Since 1975 he has taught a total of six years as a DAAD visiting professor at Southeast Asian universities, carried out extensive empirical research in Indonesia , Malaysia , Thailand and Sri Lanka and was an advisor to the BMZ, GTZ, KfW, World Bank, UNESCO, ILO and other international organizations. Hans-Dieter Evers is fluent in Indonesian and Malay and has taught and published in these languages. At the beginning of 2000 he taught as a visiting professor at the Philosophical Faculty of the National University of Singapore and since 2001 regularly at the Singapore Management University.

Publications

His latest book publications are “The Moral Economy of Trade. Ethnicity and Developing Markets “, London : Routledge 1994; “Southeast Asian Urbanism”, Münster and London: LIT and New York: St. Martin's Press 2001, 2nd edition 2004 and “Governing and Managing Knowledge in Asia”, London and Singapore: World Scientific.

The Bielefeld approach

The " Bielefeld Approach " was a research group headed by Evers at Bielefeld University, which developed theories on subsistence production (survival strategies of poor households and housewives in developing countries and interlinking of production methods) and the formation of strategic groups.

The so-called Bielefeld approach looks at gender polarities in connection with capitalist structures. The advocates of this approach assume that the hierarchical division of labor between the sexes and the associated exploitation of women represent the “foundation and keystone of all further exploitation relationships” (Werlhof / Mies / Bennholdt-Thomsen 1983: IX). All other conditions of exploitation, the colonization of the world, the exploitation of nature, territories and people, follow the same pattern. Two processes were necessary for the implementation of the structural principle of the higher valuation of male work: colonization and housewifeization . This means that women and colonies have something in common. Both do not belong to the actual society, which consists of male wage workers and capitalists, but are regarded as natural resources such as water, air, and earth and are accordingly treated as such: They are exploited and colonized.

Web links

• Bielefeld approach ( Memento from October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Literature by and about Hans-Dieter Evers in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/Evers.pdf
2. ^ Bierschenk, Thomas. 2002. Hans Dieter Evers and the Bielefelder Schule. Development and Cooperation 43 (10): 273-276.