معرفی
Fabian Kessl is a Professor of Social Pedagogy at the University of Wuppertal, affiliated with the Institute of Educational Science under the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. His work critically examines the transformation of welfare state arrangements, focusing on education, upbringing, and care institutions within the new compassion economy, social space research, and boundary work.
Research Themes:
- Welfare state restructuring and its impact on social pedagogy
- Compassion-based poverty relief systems as shadow welfare
- Spatial dynamics in educational and social work practices
- Institutional power structures and professional ethics
Scientific Contributions:
The Compassion Economy (2024) book co-edited with Holger Schoneville explores donation-based poverty alleviation systems like food banks. His 2022 monograph Der Gebrauch der eigenen Kräfte analyzes neoliberal activation policies in social work through governmentality theory. Articles span topics from 2011-2024, including precarization in pedagogy (2021), responsibility frameworks (2023), and spatial research (2016).
