Leo Gabriel (journalist)

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Leo Gabriel (2016)

Leo Gabriel (born July 27, 1945 in Neunkirchen , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian social anthropologist , journalist and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Leo Gabriel, son of the philosopher Leo Gabriel , comes from a conservative family and, after attending the humanistic grammar school, studied law and political science in Vienna and social anthropology in Paris with Claude Lévi-Strauss , where he experienced May 68 . After receiving his doctorate, he went to Latin America, where he a. a. worked as a professor of political science in Mexico City and spent some time in Ivan Illich's Centro Intercultural de Documentación (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca . In 1975, together with Werner Hörtner and others, he founded the Latin America Information Group (IGLA) with the aim of publishing the magazine Latin America differently to create a counter-public to the prevailing media coverage of Latin America. In May 1979 he stayed in Nicaragua , where he worked as a correspondent for numerous European media, including the taz and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . After the Sandinista victory , Gabriel founded the alternative news agency Agencia Periodística de Información Alternativa (APIA) together with Dutch and Spanish journalists . Gabriel remained an informant for the Austrian Nicaragua solidarity movement until the Sandinista was voted out of office in 1990.

From 1985 to 2005 Leo Gabriel was director of the “ Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Contemporary Latin American Research ” in the premises of the Austrian Latin America Institute in Vienna.

In 2004 he ran as the top candidate of the LINKE list in the European elections . He is the coordinator of the LATAUTONOMY project and promoter of the World Social Forum , the European Social Forum and co-initiator of the Austrian Social Forum . He has spoken out controversially on the topics of the Middle East , Palestine and Israel .

Gabriel has lived in Vienna since 1996. He is married to a Salvadoran woman and his children were born in Nicaragua.

Works

Books

  • Uprising of cultures. Central America conflict region: Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua. 1987.
  • (Ed. With Werner Berger :) Alternatives to neoliberalism in Latin America . 1992, Passagen Verlag
  • La proyeccion social de las repoblaciónes en El Salvador: Una investigación socioantropológica da la Comisión para el Desarrollo de la Academia de Ciencas de Austria. 1993.
  • El Universo de la Tierra. Las culturas campesinas en el Pacífico y Centro de Nicaragua. Una investigación socio-anthropológico de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua. 1993.
  • El Universo de la Vida: "Las culturas campesinas y la situacion agraria en Guatemala". Una investigación socioantropológica. 1995.
  • The global appropriation and the resistance of Latin America against neoliberalism. (1997)
  • Multicultural autonomy in Latin America. 2004.
  • (Ed. :) Politics of Independence: Latin American Proposals for a New Democracy. 2005, ISBN 385476-171-6 .
  • (Ed. :) Latin America's democracies in transition. 2010, ISBN 978-3-85476-354-3 .

Movies

  • Senderos
  • The boat of hope (1990), 60 min.
  • Victims of Globalization: Maquiladora Factories in Latin America (1998), 11 min.
  • Victims of globalization: Clean Clothes (1999), 12 min.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Alexander Stoff: The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua as reflected in the development press in Austria - a discourse analysis. (PDF; 1.2 MB) September 2007, pp. 33–35 , accessed on May 17, 2009 .
  2. ↑ a b LINKE - Opposition for a Europe based on solidarity. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 12, 2009 ; Retrieved May 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / linke.cc
  3. ↑ a b Leo Gabriel: Uprising of cultures. Central America conflict region: Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua . dtv, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-423-10956-4 .
  4. ↑ Latin America differently - analyzes, reports, interviews, reports. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 3, 2009 ; Retrieved May 18, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.latein Amerika-anders.org
  5. ↑ LATAUTONOMY - Multicultural Autonomies in Latin America. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 28, 2019 ; Retrieved May 17, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.latautonomy.org
  6. ↑ Leo Gabriel, LATAUTONOMY (ed.): Policy of self-reliance: Latin American proposals for a new democracy . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85476-171-6 , p. 433 .
  7. ^ Austrian Social Forum. Retrieved May 18, 2009 .
  8. ^ Karl Pfeifer : Austrian Hamas Supporters and the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". haGalil online, February 16, 2009, accessed May 18, 2009 .
  9. ^ Karl Pfeifer: Austrian Hamas Supporters and the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". Action against anti-Semitism in Austria, 2009, accessed on May 18, 2009 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gabriel, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen