Markus knowledge

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Markus Wissen (* 1965 ) is a German political scientist . He is a professor of social sciences with a focus on socio-ecological transformation processes at the Berlin School of Economics and Law .

Life

Knowledge studied political science at the Free University of Berlin until 1994 and received his doctorate there in 1999 with a thesis entitled The Periphery in the Metropolis. Regulating socio-spatial polarization in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1999. Between 2000 and 2007, Markus Wissen worked on various scientific research projects, including a. at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics , the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , the Free University Berlin and the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS) Erkner.

In 2011 he was at the University of Vienna for political science with the work Social natural conditions in the internationalization of the state: conflicts over the space of public policies and the control of natural resources habilitation . In the winter semester of 2012, Wissen was appointed to a professorship at the University of Economics and Law in Berlin.

His work focuses on the social relationships to nature , environmental policy , the transformation of (auto) mobility and the spatial dimensions of the transformation of statehood. Knowledge is a member of the PROKLA editorial team.

In 2017 he published the book Imperiale Lebensweise together with Ulrich Brand . On the exploitation of man and nature in global capitalism , which was received in large numbers, had several editions and made it to number 17 on the SPIEGEL bestseller list in the "Non-Fiction" category.

Publications (selection)

  • The periphery of the metropolis. For the regulation of socio-spatial polarization in North Rhine-Westphalia. Dampfboot Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 978-3-89691-878-9 .
  • with Matthias Naumann: New areas of water management. Studies on drinking water supply and wastewater disposal in the regions of Munich, Hanover and Frankfurt (Oder). Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-88118-393-2 .
  • Social relations to nature in the internationalization of the state. Dampfboot Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-89691-878-9 .
  • with Ulrich Brand : Imperial way of life. On the exploitation of humans and nature in global capitalism. Oekom, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-86581-843-0
  • with Ulrich Brand: The Limits to Capitalist Nature. Theorizing and Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living. Rowman & Littlefield, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-78660-155-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contact. Retrieved January 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Markus Wissen: The periphery in the metropolis. For the regulation of socio-spatial polarization in North Rhine-Westphalia . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-89691-482-0 .
  3. ↑ Contact. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Authorization to teach on the website of the University of Vienna
  5. ^ Habilitation thesis on the website of the Austrian Library Association
  6. ↑ Markus Knowledge | Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot books on critical theories of social sciences. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Editors | PROKLA. Journal of Critical Social Science. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
  8. ↑ International Politics | “Imperial way of life” on Spiegel bestseller list. Retrieved January 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Know, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965