Hans-Jürgen Burchardt Explained

Hans-Jürgen Burchardt is a German economist and social scientist. Since 2005 he is Full Professor of International and Intersocietal Relations at the University of Kassel.[1] His main areas of teaching and research include North-South-Relations, commodity-, environmental and social regimes in an international perspective, SDGs, social inequality and wealth research, theory and politics of development and Latin America.[2]

Career and research

Between 1988 and 1996 Burchardt studied social science and economics at the universities of Freiburg, Havana and Bremen completing both diplomas with distinction. After he received his PhD 1997 in Bremen he worked as a lecturer at the University of Hannover, where he supervised several research projects and obtaining his habilitation (second PhD) in 2001 with a thesis on international social politics. Apart from several consulting activities (e.g. for the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights or the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) Burchardt was in charge of a research project at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies(GIGA).[3] Between 2004 and 2005 he was Professor of Political Science and head of the International Studies Program in Political Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen. Since 2007 he is spokesman of the international graduate program Global Social Policies and Governance (GSP&G).[4] From 2009 to 2015 he was a member of the board of directors of the International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD).

As a visiting professor, Burchardt taught and conducted research at the Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) at Rutgers University, at the Universidad de La Habana (UH) as well as at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin in Buenos Aires (UNSAM).

As of 2017, Burchardt is director of CALAS - Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies and director of the Latin American Research Center Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos (CELA) at the University of Kassel.[5]

In addition, Burchardt is since 2021 project leader within the BMBF-funded research network extractivism.de and, together with Rachid Ouaissa and Hannes Warnecke-Berger, conducts research on commodity extractivism in Latin America and the Maghreb. Within the project, the constellations, (inter-) national crisis potentials as well as the possibilities for change and the durability of the development and social model of raw material export are being investigated.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.burchardt.uni-kassel.de/hans-jurgen-burchardt?lang=en Academic Career and Publications, University of Kassel, Accessed March 15th 2015
  2. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no98072776/ Publications on WorldCat
  3. Web site: Resources.
  4. Web site: Global Social Policies and Governance - Universität Kassel . 2015-04-22 . 2017-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170622235332/http://www.social-globalization.uni-kassel.de/kollegsprecher?lang=en . dead .
  5. Web site: Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos. 2021-07-13. www.uni-kassel.de.
  6. Web site: extractivism.de/en/ English Natural resource extractivism in Latin America and the Maghreb. 2021-07-13. extractivism.de/en/. en-GB.