Short version: Till Westermayer (born 1975) is a sociologist (M.A., 2001, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg) and political activist with the German Green Party, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (as speaker of the federal working group on science, technology and higher education policies; as chairperson of the local section for Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and as delegate for Baden-Württemberg for the federal Länderrat party convention).
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Till Westermayer
I grew up in a green alternative family. The youth environmental movement was another not quite unimportant factor in my socialisation (as were two political organziations, Grün-Alternative Jugend and JungdemokratInnen).
My political foundation is left-liberal and emancipatory (in a broad sense): freedom, democracy and civil rights are central, but to make use of this rights, politics has to ask questions of justice and fairness. And finds an answer in the idea of a basic income as way to secure cultural, societal and political participation in late modern societies. To make individual freedom politically possible means to rebut deep-laying prejudices (e.g. about the idea that women and men are different). Finally all freedom is useless if our planetary basis of life will be destroyed. Thus we need political ecology. I find both ideas in the agenda of the green party, thus I am involved there in various functions.
I have studied sociology (as major, with computer science and psychology as minors) in Freiburg, where I live together with my partner and our two kids, and where I work at my PhD thesis (and before that as sociologist in various third-party funded projects). Topics I find interesting include sociology of every-day life and the theory of practice, (sustainable) styles of living, urbanity, utopias, new media, technology, and gender. Fitting with these research interests I spend time with reading ambitious science fiction. Or with the internet. I also write a bit and take photographs.
Finally: to write »Till Westermeyer« is wrong, but nowadays Google is intelligent enough to find me nevertheless ;-)
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More about me (mostly in German language):
- CV
- publications (and some texts available online)
- presentations
- teaching experience
- topics of interest
- my PhD project
You could also look here:
- my website
- more about me at XING
- more about me at Facebook
- my photographs at Flickr
- my booksmarks at del.icio.us
- my twitter stream
- a profile with utopia.de (online available after login)
- person data, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
- research data base, Freiburg University (search results for »Westermayer«)
