Renate Rott

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Renate Rott (born August 1, 1937 in Altrohlau ) is a German social scientist and professor emeritus.

Life

Renate Rott traveled to the USA , Ecuador and Mexico in the early 1960s . In 1964 she began studying social sciences, with a focus on Latin America . After finishing her studies in 1972, she traveled to India. Through her stays abroad, especially through her perception of the situation of women through sexual and economic oppression, her interest in feminism grew .

In 1973 Rott was at the Free University of Berlin with the dissertation The Mexican Trade Union Movement. An investigation of their origin and development with special consideration of the dependent industrialization doctorates. She received her habilitation in 1978 with the title Industrialization and Labor Market. Aspects of the socio-economic development of labor and trade union policy in Colombia and Mexico .

In 1980 she received the second professorship for sociology at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin . The focus of her research and teaching was on women's studies , another on the labor market and trade union development in the Brazilian northeast, for example in Ceará . In 2002 she retired. In the same year she was awarded the Margherita von Brentano Prize for her life's work and, in particular, the scientific support and supervision of young female scientists .

Fonts

  • The Mexican trade union movement. An investigation of their origin and development with special consideration of dependent industrialization . Scriptor-Verlag, Kronberg (Taunus) 1975 (also diss.)
  • Small farmers in the transformation process of the agricultural sector. The Mexican example . Breitenbach, Saarbrücken 1978
  • Industrialization and the labor market. Aspects of the socio-economic development of labor and trade union policy in Colombia and Mexico . Hain, Königstein / Taunus 1979
  • Northeast Brazil: 1964–1980 . esprint-Verlag, Heidelberg 1981.
  • Work, modes of production and the labor market. 2 case studies from Colombia and Mexico . Breitenbach, Saarbrücken 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Müller-Plantenberg: Yearbook Latin America , accessed on August 11, 2013
  2. ↑ Reinhard Liehr: Latin America Institute and Latin America Research 1970–2004 . In: Karol Kubicki, Siegward Lönnendonker (ed.): The cultural and ethnic sciences at the Free University of Berlin . V&R Unipress, Göttingen 20011, p. 168
  3. ^ Margherita von Brentano Prize for Latin America Expert, December 5, 2002, accessed on August 11, 2013
  4. ^ Laudatory speech by Marianne Braig , accessed on July 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rott, Renate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Altrohlau