Roland Benedikter
Roland Benedikter (* 1965 in Bruneck , Italy) is a South Tyrolean political scientist and sociologist . He is currently a visiting researcher for multidisciplinary policy analysis at the Willy Brandt Center of the University of Wrocław-Breslau and has been co-director of the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research since 2017 .
Life
After completing school at the classical- humanistic grammar school in Bruneck , Benedikter studied comparative culture , language and literature from 1984 to 1992 at the Innsbruck Leopold-Franzens University and at the University of Padua .
From 1990 to 1991 he worked as a foreign scholarship holder from the Austrian Ministry of Research and Science at the Free University of Berlin on the subject of "The Hermeneutics of Politics and Culture ". From 1991 to 1993 he worked at the University of Innsbruck as a research assistant in the Department of English and American Studies . Benedikter received his doctorate in sociology and political science at the Free University of Berlin, as well as in educational science at the University of Innsbruck . From 1993–1996 he was involved in setting up EURAC, the European Academy for Applied Scientific Research (with a focus on research on language, ethnicity and minority protection ) and the trilingual Free University , both in Bolzano .
From 1995 to 2003 Benedikter worked as a spokesman or "personal advisor" to the Minister for Culture , Science and Education of the German-speaking and Ladin-speaking minorities in the European region of Trentino-South Tyrol . At the same time, he was also the spokesman for the chairman of the Culture Commission of the Assembly of European Regions and the Vice-President of the Federal Union of European Nationalities . Since the same period he has also been active in the international civil society.
Between 1996 and 2009, Benedikter was visiting professor and professor at universities and think tanks in the United States , Great Britain , Australia , Peru , Germany , Austria, Switzerland , Italy, Bulgaria and Turkey . These include: Columbia University New York, Georgetown University Washington DC, Villanova University Philadelphia, RMIT University Melbourne, University of Northampton , University of Vienna , University of Sofia , Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Lima and the Mersin Üniversitesi .
From 2008 to 2015 he was a Research Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara . From 2009–13 he was European Endowed Professor of Political Analysis in Residence at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Visiting Fellow / Research Affiliate at Stanford University . 2010–2013 he was also a Research Associate at the European University Viadrina , Frankfurt / Oder, Germany.
Until 2011 he was an external examiner of two European Master of Arts courses (EIMP) in social and educational sciences at the University of Plymouth and a course in peace education in kindergarten and elementary school at the University of Prishtina in Kosovo.
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Benedikter works in the field of time analysis. His specialization is political anticipation , contextual policy analysis and "global system shift". At the center of his interests are political and cultural sociology , multidimensional global change as well as inter- and transdisciplinarity . A major focus of his work is the reassessment of the role of the public intellectual in open societies .
Benedikter has written books on multidisciplinary social development , cultural symptomatology , contextual policy analysis and social banking . He has also published a (equally multidisciplinary) 7-volume foundation of post-materialism .
Seventh dimensional method of understanding
Benedikter's publications deal primarily with the role of culture as a factor in contemporary society and politics . Benedikter applies a method of understanding to the appearances of societies. For example, he deals with globalization . This method is multi-disciplinary and uses seven dimensions. He assumes system and discourse rationalities from six areas (typological discourse fields): economy, politics, culture, religion, technology and demography. In integrating the six typological discourse fields (see above), he uses approaches from both systems theory and the theory of social action .
Benedikterer is now pursuing the goal of integrating the six system and discourse rationalities into a seventh dimension. This should create a multi-dimensional understanding of globalization. The aim is to determine and integrate diversity “on the basis of difference as the motor and law of modernization”. In this integration, Benedikter considers phenomenology , judgment and discourse . Finally, the concept of globalization and the perception of globalization should be integrated.
Benedikter understands the six basic dimensions in their interaction as the basis of the functional structure of society. This approach is analogous to Max Weber or Emil Durkheim , who saw the differentiation and intrinsic functioning of various social areas as the characteristic of " modernity ". Benedikter describes the totality of the interactions of the basic dimensions as the seventh dimension. This seventh dimension cannot be reduced to its parts due to its “time-specific combination of hypercomplexity and depth ambivalence”. It must therefore be captured in its specific complexity at the intersection of the various dimensions.
Contextual Policy Analysis
Benedikter developed what is known as a contextual political analysis . In this analysis he takes an inclusive approach. He bases his analyzes on four central developments in contemporary history : the end of neoliberalism (economy), the end of the New World Order (politics), the end of postmodernism (culture) and the renaissance of spirituality (religion). According to Benedikter, these four developments are accompanied by the rise of technology to become a social factor. This rise of technology can no longer be completely controlled by any of the four discourse logics mentioned, as well as by the growing influence of demography, which in the 21st century will cause economic, political, cultural and religious shifts and frictional conflicts and will increasingly influence the context of validity. The aim is an analysis that can understand and consider the interweaving of these factors as "that which is more than the sum of its parts".
Prices
Benedikter has won five science awards so far, including the Dr. Otto Seibert Prize for the promotion of scientific publications from the University of Innsbruck in 2005 and the Klaus Reichert Prize for Medical Philosophy 2012.
Publications
- Europe cannot stay what it is. Background and perspectives of the European crisis . Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin 2013.
- Sustainable Democratization of Iraq? Socio-cultural and democratic political perspectives . A case study on the inclusive development of societal paradigms. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85165-629-6 .
- with Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker : Report to the Club of Rome 2003 Limits to Privatization. How To Avoid Too Much Of A Good Thing. (English 2005, German 2006, Chinese 2007).
- with Helmut Reinalter (Ed.): The humanities in the field of tension between modernity and postmodernism. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85165-295-9 .
Web links
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- ↑ http://www.wbz.uni.wroc.pl/en/about-us/visiting-scholar.html
- ^ Dr Andrzej Dębski. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.eurac.edu/de/aboutus/people/Pages/staffdetails.aspx?persId=41927
- ↑ https://austria-forum.org/af/Biographien/Benedikter%2C_Roland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benedikter, Roland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sociologist and political scientist (South Tyrol) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brunico , Italy |