Peter Herrmann

Central South University | CSU · School of Law

It is an endless debate, and it is one that will surely not come to an end with the following. The fact of being a never-ending-story is in fact part and parcel of the subject matter: openness, contestability, and historicity—all this is not least a matter of an ongoing power struggle between different kind of subjects. This suggests an approach th...

Zusammenfassung Der Text leitet in den Schwerpunkt „Community Organizing“ ein, indem er den inhaltlichen Rahmen beschreibt und die Beiträge kurz vorstellt.

This contribution argues that socialisation of the economy reached a degree pushing further to accept the need to overcome the individualist-private ownership of the productive process and the entailed limitation on measuring wealth as matter of production of commodities. In particular, digitisation (Understood as complex process, reaching from con...

The following reflections argue that theories of development, particularly, modernization fail to develop themselves and still follow the tradition of one-dimensionality—this is evidenced by terms like pre-/postmodern, renaissance, or Middle Ages, all referring to the linearity of time under which everything else is subordinated. It is also evidenc...

This paper aims to explore the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on Chinese sport and Chinese society as well as the international Olympic Movement and Games. It asks three questions: What have been the purported impacts of the Beijing Games on China’s sport culture and practice? Did the 2008 Beijing Games contribute to the development of th...

a workshop, ventilating possibilities to objectify reasoning for human rights, linking them to the concrete historical development

These are some considerations and reflections for a workshop ‘digitization, artificial intelligence and society, organised by the European Academy of Science and Arts, specifically geared to the economy and law of every day's life. These are only some provisional key thoughts and topics that come to mind. These are important issues, any discussion...

b>The complete specialist knowledge for social work The Fachlexikon is the standard work for studies, science and practice of social work. The 9th edition includes around 1.500 keywords, the selection of which is based on the needs of social work. 664 authors provide information on the current state of developments and discourses in social work, s...

b>The complete specialist knowledge for social work The Fachlexikon is the standard work for studies, science and practice of social work. The 9th edition includes around 1.500 keywords, the selection of which is based on the needs of social work. 664 authors provide information on the current state of developments and discourses in social work, s...

The following introduces the concept of overlife, not claiming that it is an entirely new idea, however suggesting that it is a suitable term to bring different problems of contemporary societal development together. Broadly speaking, overload is defined as simultaneously condensing patterns of life and the actual living, i.e. intensifying living b...

Three shortcomings can be made out as major threats for a constructive debate: •focusing debates on issues that take the current conditions as ultimate socioeconomic formation • taking a regional perspective that is suitable to evoke a confrontational and/or competitive perspective • the often-forgotten question of the cui bono, or what for? From h...

The theses are, first, that the federalist system as such had not been used in an appropriate way, allowing to utilise the advantages of the federal structure while maintaining the basic rules of law and democracy; second, that the Merkelian orientation on pleasing everybody opened the doors to a shift of power to extra-parliamentarian forces, repr...

The German polity, pandemia and Human Rights Still a draft, translation of quotes pending, as well as some details. But hopefully of intrest ... It is goig to be published in a book we are elaborating at my Human Rights Centre, the book will contain contriburtins from Ireland, South Africa, Spain and Turkey

Privatisation can be seen as original sin of the process of European integration. While we find at the beginning at least the notion of a community, which can also be read as notion of a common good and commons, it is becoming clear over time that, indeed, the common had been understood as making the private – not only as matter of property but als...

Karel Vasak proposed three stages of development of human rights, very much guided by an individualist understanding of what rights are. The present contribution argues that it is more important to look at the macro, meso and micro level, i.e. that human rights are also about the RIGHT OF SOCIETIES TO DEVELOP, thus making it possible to establish a...

Zusammenfassung Dienste allgemein und speziell die Dienste für Wohnungslose sind immer auch dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es Kommunikationsschwierigkeiten zwischen den unterschiedlichen Akteur_innen gibt. Diese Einleitung in den Schwerpunkt „Wohnungslosigkeit“ problematisiert diesen Umstand und weist nicht zuletzt darauf hin, dass alle Beteiligten d...

Interview, presenting the book Between Ignorance and Murder .- Racism in Times of Pandemics

Digitisation is widely-and justifiably criticised-for its detrimental impact on social developments (securitisation of employment and social insurances), commonly understood as point of reference for heterodox policies. However, too often two shortcomings are underlying this view: (a) the confusion of the technical dimension of digitisation and its...

The ‘Big Data Age’ is replacing the ‘Industrialization Age’. Understanding the current Corporate Social Responsibility requires at least a bit of historical clarification: it would be surely misleading to attribute any kind of entrepreneurial ‘social activity’ to the array of Corporate Social Responsibility. However, such review is introduced only...

For the good or for the bad, social policy as we know or understand it today is very much a child of modern times, set up as cure against the illness of the system and also understood as move beyond its remits. Currently we find frequent debates on varieties of capitalism and pronouncedly since the early 1990s about different welfare regime. Howeve...

The present interest in globalisation focuses on a most fundamental question: do we need—and can we find—a new reference point for eliciting nationality and identity? The underlying reasoning has to be seen in the far-reaching shortcomings of those methodological foundations of social science that emerged in the wake of the Western Enlightenment—na...

Chapter 1 provides a critical perspective on the historical development of concepts of human rights. It interrogates the concept of universal human rights, the processes that led to their development and the factors which influence both the development and implementation of international human rights mechanisms. It recognises the contribution of ph...

This chapter discusses the historical development of ‘rights’ and how these transformed into ideas about ‘universal human rights’. It shows how the concept of rights developed historically from notions of legal through to political, social/economic and cultural rights and from individual to group rights. It describes how thinking about rights has d...

From a Critical Social Policy perspective and with a Global Development remit, this book addresses a range of key questions regarding international human rights. With human rights constantly under challenge, this collection of chapters represent a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analys...

This chapter discusses the historical development of ‘rights’ and how these transformed into ideas about ‘universal human rights’. It shows how the concept of rights developed historically from notions of legal through to political, social/economic and cultural rights and from individual to group rights. It describes how thinking about rights has d...

Human rights debates seem to be a little bit in a dead end: on the one hand, taken for granted is defined diffusion of human rights; on the other there seems to be in permanent confrontation two incompatible positions, each of them suggesting the other side is in breach of the rules. One is the position that emphasizes the societal dimension of rig...

Very basic introduction into legal thinking, having in mind that it finally should be geared towards Human Rights Issues

actually an article in the SozialExtra: Eine kleine Gedenk-Schrift an die geistig moralische Wende der wilden 1980er Es gibt manche Gründe, sich ein stärkeres, verantwortlicheres Regieren über nationale Grenzen hinaus zu wünschen. Aber der Blick in die zweite Hälfte des 20.Jahrhunderts gibt auch Grund zur Skepsis – z.B. besteht mehr Europa, als wi...

Alles wird heute unter dem Begriff Neoliberalismus abgetan – und dies scheint ein mehr oder weniger junges Maßnahmenbündel. Übersehen wird aber, dass das, was heute so bezeichnet wird, eine lange Vorgeschichte hat und wenig mit Maßnahmen zu tun hat, dafür aber sehr viel mit der Durchsetzung einer auf die Spitze getriebenen Modernisierung: es ging i...

Was heißt es, den sozialen Sektor zu verlassen? Wer kontrolliert die Grenzüberschreitung? Was muss passieren, damit endlich Alarm geschlagen wird, weil Hilfsbedürftige nicht mehr die notwendige Unterstützung erhalten? Ungerechtigkeit schreit zum Himmel und Vorurteilen und Menschenverachtung wird kein Einhalt geboten.

Although the concept is a familiar one, it tends not to be fully accepted that economics, and political economy in particular, is in fact a social science. Focusing today on capital and commodities, economics does so in the light of their being social relationships. Paul Boccara, on whose work this article centres its attention, focused especially...

Discussing increasing populism and right-wing political movements and social law together is commonly – and without any doubt importantly – dealing with issues of social legislation, employability and emphasising the importance of ‘honesty and reliability’ from the political side. And while globalisation is not condemned, it is at least in tendency...

from the forward by Lorena Ossio: ... In the first part, with greater emphasis on economics but always keeping faithful to what is known in Germany as Grundlagenforschung. He follows in many respects the thought and academic legacy of Hans F. Zacher whom the author has personally known and who unites in his human warmth, sensitivity an attempt to u...

reprint of the book from 1994 - Vorwort des Nachdrucks: Organisationen sind, so wird behauptet, lernende Einheiten. Sicher ist dies in mancher Hinsicht nicht zu bestreiten, aber doch lässt es einen auch schnell zögern, denn die Frage ist doch zunächst sehr grundsätzlich, ob denn Organisationen überhaupt als handlungsfähige Einheiten bestehen. Ihnen...

About You, Es geht um Dich ? das scheint eine sich durchsetzende Orientierung, die auf verschiedensten Pfaden Einlass in die Diskussionen der Zeit findet. Es handelt sich dabei um einen nicht ganz neuen, aber doch wohl erneuerten Schub der Individualisierung, der einen sicheren Raum zwischen Rückzug des Individuums, Neu-Definition des Sozialen und...

Kann man dem komplexen Phänomen „China“ auf wenigen Seiten gerecht werden? Zweifel daran sind mehr als angebracht. REVIEW OF Edition Le Monde diplomatique: Chinas Aufstieg. Mit Kapital, Kontrolle und Konfuzius

Precarity is commonly referred to as matter of employment and the increasing insecurity and instability of obtaining labour as secure and predictable foundation of socio-economic security – subsequently we find instability of inclusion, cohesiveness and empowerment (and/or perception). Alluding to the slogan «the economy, stupid» which had been gui...

The presentation, made on the 20th of June at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, focuses on property and competition as core issues, emphasising that both have to be used in a substantiated way that starts from a perspective of praxis. This means to least that notions “corporate social responsibility” are critically...

The documents gathered here had been compiled in preparation of a presentation at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, February 21st, 2018. While occasionally reference had been to documents reproduced here, most of the documents should be understood as background-information. Abstract of the presentation: WYSIWYG, the suppos...

Precarity is commonly referred to as matter of employment and the increasing insecurity and instability of obtaining labour as secure and predictable foundation of socio-economic security – subsequently we find instability of inclusion, cohesiveness and empowerment (and/or perception). Alluding to the slogan «the economy, stupid» which had been gui...

The article describes an empirical study concerned with the NEET generation in Hungary. The NEET generation (Not in Education, Employment or Training) is represented by those young persons who do not work or study anywhere due to a number of social, economic and political reasons. The authors present the results of qualitative interviews revealing...

While it is important to investigate the role of socio-economic shocks and simplifying ‘analyses’ of populist demagogues, standing behind the immediate dangers of populist threats, the present contribution outlines the need for and contours of a thorough analysis of the current formation. Reference to a broadly understood and somewhat refined regul...

Reflections made on the occasion of the Annual EUROMEMO-Conference in Athens, end of September 2017, asking for a more radical shift in thinking, and acknowledging the fundamental character of political implications. The point that is made concerns the need to look for policies and politics that are not accepting the capitalist structures as comple...

Physical exercise, beyond the mere physical aspect, is very much a social construct. But it is as well a means of constructing the social and as such it can be used in different ways. The contribution, taking a broad comparative perspective, will reflect on two major possibilities: the one may be called social inclusion as subordination and the oth...

https://diefreiheitsliebe.de/politik/plattformoekonomie-flexi-ein-schritt-vorwaerts-oder-zwei-schritte-zurueck/ Plattformökonomie ist einer der Begriffe, unter denen neue Wirtschaftsentwicklungen gefasst werden . Schon in diesem kurzen Satz, der vagen Formulierung, wird deutlich, dass es bei diesem und ähnlichen Begriffen wie Digitalisierung, gig-...

I spent a little bit more than two years in China, working as academic, mainly teaching an undergraduate course Introduction to Economics. The following notes may answer some of the questions that turned up again and again, not least in the ‘small circle’ of the immediate working environment – a joined venture, one of the increasing numbers of proj...

The aim of the present article is to reflect on accounting in the light of the general developmental perspectives. From here, it will be concluded that accounting is requested to develop new perspectives, opening ways for socially responsible accounting. The five developmental frictions are fundamentally defining factors in two respects: (1) with t...

There is no end of the crisis in sight. Even more, the long nightmare of forcing Greece onto its knees during the first half of 2015, using banks instead of tanks, shows the contempt for mankind by established superior powers when it comes to defending their interest in a Hobbesian war, irrespective of subsequent human tragedies. A more detailed an...

There is no end of the crisis in sight. Even more, the long nightmare of forcing Greece onto its knees during the first half of 2015, using banks instead of tanks, shows the contempt for mankind by established superior powers when it comes to defending their interest in a Hobbesian war, irrespective of subsequent human tragedies. A more detailed an...

Of course, it would be scandalous to recommend forgetting the welfare state as outdated model. On the contrary, the traditional problems of industrial societies and even the traditional problems of industrialisation persist to exist—and at the same time the knowledge of both their complex “terms and conditions” and the fact that they are by no mean...

Obviously, we face an economic crisis that dominates the headlines of daily newspapers, academic jour- nals and features as the title of TV-and-radio casts alike. And, not withstanding political differences, there is widespread consensus that the economic crisis is only the tip of an iceberg. However, there is little readi- ness to go beyond the in...

For a long time, the Rostowian model, indentifying development with economic growth, was not fundamentally questioned. Even its critiques were more concerned with asking to leave choices of ways of development to countries, without contesting the objectives and the character of capitalist growth as such. Taking this paradigm as general reference po...

This presentation approaches general issues of development, suggesting huge potentials for alternative development strategies. They are discussed about an understanding of eco-technological conditions – the eco referring to ecological and economic aspects of the antroponomic system.

Space is traditionally seen as geographical and physical parameter, and as such an external, historically given point of reference for economy, politics and cultures. This is especially surprising as it is too well known that we are in actual fact dealing with a highly contested, permanently changing reference – of course wars marking this in the m...

Abstract fo a presentation The video of the presentation can be found here: https://youtu.be/MjHB2Br8FQY The slides can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295906949_Precarity_as_Part_of_Socio-Economic_Transformation_-_New_Perspectives_on_Social_Policy

A fundamental challenge of social policy is the fact that both, the term social, that is used as point of reference, and the understanding or “field of reference” of the policy dimension are ill defined. The presentation (Debrecen, February 2016) aims on ventilating economic perspectives that require and allow going beyond reestablishing traditiona...

The chapter presents some theoretical and methodological considerations regarding communication. The fundamental question is if – and if so, to what extent – communication is playing a new role in today's societies, where borders have shifted in multiple ways. The aim is to provoke reflection on the multitude of shifting borders, incompletely captu...

Abstract A fundamental methodological problem is the relevance of an antagonism of capitalism. This needs to be classified in light of the developmental stage of the means of production: far too little attention is paid to the contradictory character of individualization and socialization. This brings us to Karl Polányi’s main argument of disembedd...

Third Level Education is in many respects increasingly changing in the light of two general developments: internationalistaiton and globalisation on the ine hand, marketisation and commodification on the other hand. Whereas the first is appar- ently taking up on an intrinsic value of education (‘universality of knowledge’), the second can be seen a...

a preparatory version, needs revision and editing: The present contribution is crosscutting, mainly theoretical and global in orientation. The aim is to make against the background of digitisation a contribution towards the changing world of the organisation of work. During the era of 'industrial capitalism' the tension between market and society w...

Focusing on the themes of conflict, communication, and globalisation, this book provides interdisciplinary studies of modern and contemporary Asia and highlights the latest developments in Asian Studies. Beginning with a discussion on the role of communications, the book offers theoretical and methodological considerations on dealing with conflict...

Looking at the economic development of the recent years, the first that comes to mind is of course the crisis and its far reaching impact on the living conditions and perspectives of many people – social security systems are threatened by austerity, and they often appear at most as shunting yard, without offering real perspectives for individuals a...

Physical exercise, beyond the mere physical aspect, is very much a social construct. But moreover it is also a means of constructing the social and as such it can be used in different ways. The presentation, taking a broad comparative perspective, will reflect on two major possibilities: we may call the one social inclusion as subordination and we...

There is no end of the crisis in sight – this is also openly recognised by apologists of the system. Even more, the long nightmare of forcing Greece during the fist half of 2015 onto its knees, using banks instead of tanks shows both, the contempt for mankind by established superior powers when it comes to defending their interest in the Hobbesian...

The following is part of a series of presentations given to students of economics at 中南林业科技大学班戈学院/Bangor College CSUFT in Changsha, Hunan Province in China. The title/subject of the course had been “Learning Skills” - the recommended book about rather stupidifying things, assuming students are naive - and moreover reducing academic work on the app...

The following is part of a series of presentations given to students of economics at 中南林业科技大学班戈学院/Bangor College CSUFT in Changsha, Hunan Province in China. The title/subject of the course had been “Learning Skills” - the recommended book about rather stupidifying things, assuming students are naive - and moreover reducing academic work on the app...

The following is part of a series of presentations given to students of economics at 中南林业科技大学班戈学院/Bangor College CSUFT in Changsha, Hunan Province in China. The title/subject of the course had been “Learning Skills” - the recommended book about rather stupidifying things, assuming students are naive - and moreover reducing academic work on the app...

/ Das Wichtigste in Kürze Zwar ist gerade in der EU von Innovation und Sozialinvestitionen die Rede. Aber bei Kenntnis der Entwicklung der letzten Jahrzehnte sieht man doch, dass alles keineswegs wirklich so innovativ ist. Nachgezeichnet wird ein Weg von der „Legalisierung“ der EU-Sozialpolitik durch die Reduzierung auf Beschäftigungspolitik über d...

Die Gedanken lassen sich zwar auf Religion und Kirche insgesamt beziehen, hängen sich aber vor allem an einigen jüngeren Entwicklungen der katholischen Kirche auf. Ziel ist nicht eine systematische Analyse, die weit mehr Platz benötigen würde1. Mehr geht es darum, einige Fragen aufzuwerfen, deren Beantwortung ein gemeinsames Handeln verschiedener g...

Zusammenleben - die Neue Lösung? Es gibt schon lange und immer wieder neue Vorstellungen dazu - Der gegenwärtige Beitrag bezieht sich nicht zuletzt auf das konvivialistischen Manifest. Bemerkenswert ist, dass oft eine besondere Herausforderung darin besteht, dass einerseits ein „ganzheitlicher Anspruch” gestellt wird, andererseits aber doch oft auc...

In the beginning it should be briefly stressed that we are dealing with considerations on a sustainable welfare society. It is important to explicitly see that this approach is dealing with three issues, each in need of separate consideration and also all three gaining a specific meaning by their interrelationship. It is about sustainability – a co...

The present document argues that the debates about religion and faith-based fundamentalism are mislead, largely by neglecting their real socio-economic meaning. Rather than looking at socio-economic aspects of disadvantaged groups and regions it is important to look at the patterns of a wide-ranging economic restructuration, directed into what is a...

It had been clear from the beginning: after the Irish people decided in the referendum against the Lisbon Treaty it had been clear that they would return sooner or later to the poll stations, being asked to give another time their vote. But it is really about this: giving a vote rather than making their opinion heard and relevant. It would be anoth...

Краткий обзор Сегодня социальная политика - это отдельная сфера политики, стоящая особняком от других её областей, и даже, можно сказать, конкурирующая с ними. Особенно часто противопоставляют социальной политике экономику. Налогово-бюджетная политика, таким образом, рассматривается с позиций ее контролирующей и «нормотворческой» функций. Тем не ме...

The contribution discusses precarity and develops – very much on an impressionistic basis, but well informed by a historical-dialectic approach and using the theory of regulation – an understanding by looking for a historical perspective. Social precarity is understood as imbalance of capitalist societal systems and stands against social quality. U...

The contribution, building on the core definition of the Social Quality Approach, provides from this perspective a critical assessment of the Capability Approach. Though especially the individualism and affirmative orientation of the latter are highlighted as severe weakness, the contribution orients on searching for a common denominator.

There is no end of the crisis in sight – this is also openly recognised by the apologists of the system. But in fact, the task is still not to interpret the world; instead, important is to develop a more detailed and radical analysis, then allowing moving towards changing structures that are underlying the current situation. The present contributio...

Social quality thinking emerged from a critique of one-sided policies by breaking through the limitations previously set by purely economistic paradigms. By tracing its expansion and presenting different aspects of social quality theory, this volume provides an overview of a more nuanced approach, which assesses societal progress and introduces pro...

Introduction Social quality thinking emerged from a critique of one-sided policies by breaking through the limitations previously set by purely economistic paradigms. By tracing its expansion and presenting different aspects of social quality theory, this volume provides an overview of a more nuanced approach, which assesses societal progress and...

http://esp.whioce.com/index.php/ESP Call for Papers Environment and Social Psychology, an interdisciplinary journal launched by Whioce Publishing, Singapore under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Brij Mohan, seeks original contributions—articles, conference papers, brief book reviews and short commentaries—for its premier volume due out in Decem...

Krise und und es scheint kein Ende der Krise in Sicht – dies haben nun auch die Apologeten des Systems anerkannt. Aber in der Tat, ist es nicht genug, die Welt wieder einmal neu zu interpretieren, sondern es gilt, eine weitergehende Analyse zu erarbeiten, die es ermöglicht, sie tatsächlich zu verändern. Der Beitrag versucht, die Krise in diesem Lic...