Reinhart Kößler

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Reinhart Kößler (born April 14, 1949 in Karlsruhe ) is a German sociologist .

Career

Reinhart Kößler studied sociology, history, especially Eastern European history and ethnology from 1967 to 1972 at the University of Heidelberg . From 1972 to 1973 he studied Sinology at the University of Leeds . He was born in 1978 at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Münsterwith the dissertation “Third International and Peasant Revolution. The Formation of Soviet Marxism in the Debate on the Asian Mode of Production ”. There he completed his habilitation in sociology in 1987 with a thesis on “Working culture in the industrialization process. Studies in English and Soviet Russian Paradigms ”. This historical analysis of the development of an industrial work culture is based on the theoretical reconstruction of processes of reproduction and survival strategies in capitalism .

Since 2012 he has been an adjunct professor at the Department of Scientific Policy at the University of Freiburg , and from 2013 until his retirement in 2015 he was director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for cultural studies research in Freiburg.

Kößler is a member of Attac's Scientific Advisory Board .

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Kößler is a development sociologist and theorist with a regional focus on Southern Africa and Eastern Europe . In his work he examines different development paths and post-colonial societies from a global sociological perspective and reflects on the concept of development on a general level. He has presented studies on the post-colonial state, on despotism in modern times, on ethnicity and on international civil society and solidarity (with Henning Melber). With Hanns Wienold , he reconstructed the question of “society in Marx” sociologically and took it up anew. His studies on German colonialism in Namibia , its current consequences and the disputes around it (2005; 2015) are based on archive work, ethnological field research at festivals, rituals, as well as places and practices of remembrance. They were received worldwide and in Namibia. From 2000 to 2002, Kößler was the spokesman for the Development Sociology and Social Anthropology section of the German Society for Sociology . He has supervised dissertations from Africa and Latin America. He was a founding member and member of the editorial board of PERIPHERIE magazine . Journal for Politics and Economics of the Third World (since 1980). He is involved in networks on post-colonialism and in particular in the questions of apology and compensation for the Federal Republic of Germany for the genocide in Namibia and the return of human remains stolen during colonialism to the Herero, Nama and other affected groups.

Publications

Monographs
  • with Henning Melber : genocide and what then? The politics of German-Namibian coming to terms with the past. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-95558-193-0 .
  • Namibia and Germany. Negotiating the past. University of Namibia Press / Westfälisches Dampfboot, Windhoek / Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-89691-857-4 .
  • In Search of Survival and Dignity. Two Traditional Communities in Southern Namibia under South African rule. Windhoek 2005.
  • with Henning Melber : Global Solidarity? A polemic. Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • with Hanns Wienold : Society at Marx. corr., exp. Edition. Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-89691-510-8 .
  • Development. Münster 1998, ISBN 3-89691-697-1 .
  • with Tilman Schiel : On the way to a critical theory of modernization. Changes in modernity: work - state - culture. Frankfurt 1996.
  • Post-colonial states. Elements of a frame of reference. Hamburg 1994.
  • with Henning Melber: Chances of international civil society. Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Despotism in the modern age. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1993.
  • Work culture in the industrialization process. Studies in English and Soviet Russian paradigms. Munster 1990.
  • Third International and Peasant Revolution. The emergence of Soviet Marxism in the debate about the Asian mode of production. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1982.
Editing
  • with William A. Lindeke and André du Pisani: The Long Aftermath of War. Reconciliation and Transition in Namibia. Freiburg 2010.
  • with Andreas Wimmer: Understanding Change. Models, Methodologies and Metaphors. Houndmills / Basingstoke / New York 2006, ISBN 1-4039-3941-1 .
  • with Tilman Schiel: Nation-State and Ethnicity. Changes in modernity: work - state - culture. IKO - publishing house for intercultural communication, Frankfurt 1994.

literature

  • Gerhard Hauck , Ilse Lenz, Hanns Wienold (eds.): Development, violence, memory. Festschrift for Reinhart Kößler . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-89691-720-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac.de. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ perlentaucher.de
  3. ↑ Hauck, Gerhard; Lenz, Ilse; Wienold, Hanns (Ed.): Development, violence, memory. Festschrift for Reinhart Kößler. Münster 2015.
  4. ↑ sociologie.de
  5. ↑ blaetter.de

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personal data
SURNAME Kößler, Reinhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe