Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen

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Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen (born September 12, 1944 in Seefeld in Tirol ) is an Austrian ethnologist and sociologist . It has also been based in Mexico since 1966 , first for studying, then for research.

Life

Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen was 1973 with the ethnological work to determine the Indio: The social, economic and cultural position of the Indians in Mexico at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne doctorate . In 1982 she qualified as a professor at Bielefeld University with the sociological treatise Farmers in Mexico, Between Subsistence and Goods Production .

From the beginning she was involved in the women's movement and became a co-creator of German women's studies . She has published numerous books and articles, which have also been translated into several languages, on the following topics: social movements of farmers and women , feminist social theory , alternative economic theory, matriarchy research .

Bennholdt-Thomsen worked as a lecturer and visiting professor at various universities, for example in Innsbruck, at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, for "rural women's research" at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in the field of women's studies at the University of Klagenfurt . As a temporary professor at Bielefeld University she built up the subject “Women and the Third World” over a period of five years (1983-88). In 1997 she was appointed honorary professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna . In 2005 and 2006 she advised the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (Ciesas) in Oaxaca / Mexico on the establishment of a master’s degree, especially with regard to women's studies. She is the head of the private institute for theory and practice of subsistence e. V. (ITPS) in Bielefeld .

Fonts (selection)

as an author:

  • Farmers in Mexico: between subsistence and commodity production. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1982, ISBN 3-593-33167-5 (habilitation thesis Universität Bielefeld 1982).
  • Women, the last colony: To housewifeize work. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988 (1983), ISBN 3-499-12239-1 (together with Maria Mies and Claudia von Werlhof .)
  • A Cow for Hillary: The Subsistence Perspective. Frauenoffensive, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88104-294-6 (together with Maria Mies).
  • Women's Economy: Juchitán, Mexico's City of Women. Frederking & Thaler, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-89405-406-9 (together with Mechthild Müser and Cornelia Suhan).
  • No economy without people. Or: How social wealth arises: reports from a rural region in East Westphalia. Oekom, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-936581-67-3 (together with Andrea Baier and Brigitte Holzer).
  • Money or Life: What Makes Us Really Rich. Oekom, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86581-195-0 .

as editor:

  • International integration and social struggles. 2nd Edition. Olle & Wolter, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-921241-42-1 .
  • Impoverishment processes and forms of resistance. Olle & Wolter, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-88395-402-0 .
  • Juchitan - City of Women: On Life in Matriarchy. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-499-13396-2 (collection of articles).
  • together with Christa Müller u. a .: The Subsistence Handbook: Resistance Cultures in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Promedia, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85371-143-X .
  • together with Nicholas Faraclas and Claudia von Werlhof: There is an Alternative: Subsistence and Worldwide Resistence to Corporate Globalization. Sphinifex Press, North Melbourne, Victoria 2001, ISBN 1-84277-006-3 (English).

Web links

Essays by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen in the magazine Oya :

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen: Farmers in Mexico: between subsistence and commodity production . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1982, ISBN 3-593-33167-5 (habilitation thesis Universität Bielefeld 1982).
personal data
SURNAME Bennholdt-Thomsen, Veronika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Seefeld in Tyrol