Maria Diedrich
Research Assistant Master's Degree in Social Work
Sociologist M.A.
Contact
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Office hours by appointment
Teaching areas
Module: Projects in Social Work Practice and Research (SoSe21-WiSe2021/22)
Module: Focus Study: Social Work with Offenders and their Environment (WiSe 2020/21)
Module: Socioeconomic Foundations of Social Work (SoSe 2017 - SoSe 2020)
Work and research focus
- Social work and neo-Nazism, racism, anti-Semitism
- Migration and democracy
- Work conflicts
- Dissertation Project: Agent of Democracy? On the Relationship between Social Work and "Right-Wing Extremism
Publications
Diedrich, Maria; Erxleben, Paul (2023): Counseling needs in contested terrain. Mobile Beratung, sozialer Konflikt und Corona-Proteste, in: Mayer, Marion; Bringt, Friedemann; Lehnert, Esther; Warrach, Nora (eds.): Beratung zu Rechtsextremismus und Demokratiegefährdung. Concepts - Challenges - Intersectional Perspectives, Weinheim, pp. 138-149.
Diedrich, Maria (2023): From "antifascism" and "bald care", "interfaces" and antagonism. Social work and right-wing movements, in: Widersprüche, H. 167, pp. 41-53.
Diedrich, Maria (2022): Democracy against right-wing violence. Die "Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus" im Kontext autoritärer Mobilisierungen, in: Leviathan, Sonderband 39 "Demokratie und Migration", pp. 352-373. (double blind peer review).
Bareis, Ellen; Diedrich, Maria; Kaiser, Nadja; Erxleben, Paul (2021): Final report of the project on restructuring MBR in RLP, Stadt, Land, Quartier - Social Work Research Unit, Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, Ludwigshafen/Rhein.
Diedrich, Maria (2020): Extremism prevention vs. democracy promotion? Soziale Arbeit im Konflikt um Rechtsextremismus, in: Siegen : Sozial, H. 1, pp. 4-13.
Bewernitz, Torsten; Diedrich, Maria (2020): "Wild" Strike as a Practice of Citizenship, in: Contradictions, H. 156, pp. 71-84.
Quent, Matthias (2016): Right-wing extremism and civil society engagement in the migration crisis: situation and resource analysis for the Saale-Holzland district, Institute for Democracy and Civil Society Jena. (Collaboration)
Diedrich, Maria (2013): Zur Einführung, in Schmalz, Stefan; Dörre, Klaus (eds.): Comeback der Gewerkschaften. Power resources, innovative practices, international perspectives, Frankfurt/Main, pp. 273-275.
Strategic Unionism Working Group (2013): Jena power resources approach 2.0, in Schmalz, Stefan; Dörre, Klaus: Comeback of trade unions. Power resources, innovative practices, international perspectives, Frankfurt/Main, pp. 345-375.
Reviews:
Diedrich, Maria (2022): Gegenöffentlichkeit als Praxis von Bildung, on: Friedemann Affolderbach: Öffentlichkeit von unten. Democracy, public sphere and political education, in: Widersprüche, Heft 164, pp. 119-122.
Diedrich, Maria (2021): Please line up at the bottom? via: Dörre, Klaus (2020): In the Queue. Arbeiter*innen und die radikale Rechte, in: express, H. 2/2021. The review can be accessed here.
Conferences and lectures (selection)
Between "interfaces" and "anti-fascism". On the relationship between social work and right-wing movements. Lecture, University of Bielefeld, Institute of Educational Science, Working Group Social Pedagogy, event series "Antidemocratic Landnahme in der Sozialen Arbeit", 16.10.2023.
On the potential of the concept of conflict for a critique of social work as critical social work, National Conference of Young DBSH, Mainz, 14.10.2023.
Social work in conflict. Reflections on problematization processes of "right-wing extremism" between "democracy promotion" and "extremism prevention", AG: Konjunkturen von 'Rechtsextremismus' und Ideologien der Ungleichwertigkeit' als Konjunkturen sozialpädagogischer Professionalität?, Annual Conference of the Commission for Social Pedagogy of the German Society for Educational Science, 18 March 2021.
"Welcome culture" and right-wing conjunctures. Different sides of the same conflict?, Workshop: Zwischen Willkommenskultur und Restriktion: Migrationsdiskurse im und nach dem langen Sommer der Migration, July 3, 2020, Humboldt University Berlin.
"Agent of democracy? Zum Verhältnis von Sozialer Arbeit und "Rechtsextremismus" - Dissertation Project", Research Day, Department of Social and Health Care, Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, June 14, 2019.
"Social work and the extreme right. Normalization or actor against the right?", kriSo conference: Gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse und Kritische Soziale Arbeit, Vienna, November 24, 2017.
Scientific and professional career
July 2021 - December 2021 | Team consulting in the project "Restructuring of the Mobile Counseling Service on Right-Wing Extremism (MBR) in Rhineland-Palatinate". |
From July 2019 | Doctoral candidate Department of Educational Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main |
From Sept. 2016 | Research assistant, University of Applied Sciences, Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany |
March 2016 - October 2016 | Research assistant, situation and resource analysis, Partnership for Democracy, Saale-Holzland district |
March 2014 - August 2016 | Project management "Demokratieladen", Bildungswerk BLITZ e.V., Kahla, Stadtroda |
Feb. 2012 - January 2014 | Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena Department of "Sociology of Work, Economics and Industry"; Department of "General and Theoretical Sociology" |
2010 - 2013 | Sociology (M.A.), Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University. Jena |
