Westphalian steam boat publishing house
Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot is a German book publisher in the legal form of a civil law company (GbR) with its registered office in Münster . The managing partners are the sociologists Hans-Günter Thien and Hanns Wienold .
program
With the peculiar name, the publisher ties in with the magazine Das Westphälische Dampfboot , which appeared in the Vormärz from 1845 to 1848. In terms of its self-image, the publisher is not primarily an academic specialist publisher, but rather a program publisher that takes up political discussions and intervenes in them. The authors who publish regularly in the publishing house include a. Brigitte Aulenbacher , Bernd Belina , Alex Demirović , Heide Gerstenberger and Frieder Otto Wolf .
The magazine has been appearing in the publishing house since 2011 - magazine for politics in the education, health and social sectors . In addition, the conference results of the Association for Critical Social Research are published regularly. The magazine Peripherie left the publishing house in 2016. The Latin America Yearbook was published by the Westphalian Steamboat from 2000 to 2004, the PROKLA from 1993 to December 2019.
In terms of content, the publisher focuses on the following:
- Politics and economics
- Social theory and sociology
- History and society
- Gender relations
- Company and union.