Gunter Weidenhaus
Gunter Weidenhaus, Dr. phil., born 1972, initially studied philosophy and German philology, then social pedagogy and finally sociology with a minor in computer science and political economics at TU Darmstadt. In 2013, he obtained a doctorate in Darmstadt with the topic “Soziale Raumzeit” (summa cum laude; doctoral prize from the Urban and Regional Sociology Section; published by Suhrkamp). Most recently, he worked as a visiting professor for “Spatial Sociology” at TU Berlin as part of his habilitation “The Spaces of the World” on globalisation, its theorisation in the social sciences and global processes of spatial change.
Contribution to the lecture series from 22 November 2022: