Torsten Bewernitz

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Torsten Bewernitz (* 1975 in Papenburg ) is a German political scientist and trade unionist .

Bewernitz comes from the Lower Saxony municipality of Papenburg. He studied political science, sociology, German philology and philosophy. During his studies in Münster he was active for the undogmatic left . In 2001 he submitted his master's thesis , The Negotiations on the Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI) under the Aspect of Globalization , at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . After that, he was a PhD student at the Münster Institute of Political Science and in 2010 at the Faculty with a political science doctoral thesis on the representation of nation and gender relations during the war in Kosovo to Dr. phil. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate. The reviewers for the work were Reinhard Meyers and Hanns Wienold .

From 2011 to 2014 he worked - as a project assistant to Horst Steffens - in the Technoseum , State Museum for Technology and Work in Mannheim and designed the state exhibition "Through Night to Light?", Which opened there in 2013, on the history of the labor movement (1863-2013). Most recently, he held a teaching position at the Department of Contemporary History (Professorship Philipp Gassert ) at the Historical Institute of the University of Mannheim and did research on strikes .

For more than five years he was a consultant at the DGB- Bildungswerk. At IG Metall Baden-Württemberg , he was involved in the "joint development project". He was also involved in the anarcho-syndicalist trade union federation Free Workers' Union .

Bewernitz published several articles in anarchist magazines ( Direct Action , Grassroots Revolution, etc.). Since 2018 he has worked as an editor for express - newspaper for socialist company and trade union work .

Fonts (selection)

  • Global x. Criticism, status and perspectives of the anti-globalization movement . Unrast, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-418-3 (plus master's thesis, University of Münster, 2001).
  • (Ed.): The new strikes . Unrast, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89771-480-9 .
  • with Elisabeth Tuider and Hanns Wienold (eds.): Dollares and dreams. Migration, Work, and Gender in Mexico in the 21st Century . Westphalian steam boat, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-89691-764-5 .
  • Constructions for war ?. The representation of "nation" and "gender" during the Kosovo conflict in 1999 in the German print media . Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89691-798-0 (plus dissertation, University of Münster, 2010).
  • with Horst Steffens , Peter Birke a . a. (Red.): Through night to light ?. History of the labor movement 1863–2013. Catalog for the 2013 Baden-Württemberg State Exhibition . Published by the Technoseum, State Museum for Technology and Work in Mannheim, Mannheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-9808571-7-8 .
  • Brief history of the crisis revolts. [A black and red guide] . Unrast, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-89771-569-1 .
  • Nothing in common? Differences in class . Edition Assemblage, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-942885-84-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mission: Acquire new members. In: Metallzeitung . October 2015, p. 30.
  2. ↑ Announcement of the official results of the election to the convention of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in the summer semester 1996 , uni-muenster.de, accessed on August 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ Speakers. Authors. In: Lord Mayor of the City of Osnabrück and President of the University of Osnabrück (Ed.): Conflicts in the long term? Right-wing radicalism, integration, European and Middle East policy (= Osnabruck Yearbook Peace and Science. 15/2008). V&R unipress, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89971-517-0 , p. 204.
  4. ↑ Highest praise for top researchers , uni-muenster.de, December 3, 2010, accessed on August 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ Marinke Gindullis, review of: Torsten Bewernitz: Constructions for War? Münster: 2010. In: Portal for Political Science . published on January 19, 2011.
  6. ↑ Hartwig Lüdtke for the State Museum for Technology and Work Foundation in Mannheim (ed.): Activity report 2014–2015 . Mannheim 2016, p. 104.
  7. ^ Brigitte Gisel: From Marx to Call Center. In: Reutlinger General-Anzeiger . April 30, 2013.
  8. ^ University of Mannheim, Historical Institute: Annual Report 2012–2014 . Mannheim 2014, p. 8.
  9. ^ Roman Domes: Germany's alleged strike elite . Zeit Online , December 3, 2014.
  10. ↑ FAU campaign against temporary agency work starts , fau-duesseldorf.org, accessed on August 19, 2017.
  11. ↑ a b Bewernitz, Torsten. linksnet.de, accessed on August 19, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Bewernitz, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Papenburg