Maria Diedrich
Representation of the professorship for the teaching area "Social work in the context of mental crises" (25%)
Contact
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Office hours by appointment
Teaching areas
Module: Living in difficult situations (winter semester 2024/25)
Module: Specialization - Social work as work with mental crises (winter semester 2024/25)
Module: Studies, science and practice of social work - introduction and foundation (winter semester 2024/25)
Module: Projects in Social Work Practice and Research (SoSe21-WiSe2021/22)
Module: Specialization - Social work with offenders and their environment (winter semester 2020/21)
Module: Socio-economic foundations of social work (summer semester 2017 - summer semester 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 counseling, social conflict and corona protests, 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): Of "anti-fascism" and "bald care", "interfaces" and conflict. Social work and right-wing movements, in: Contradictions, H. 167, pp. 41-53.
Diedrich, Maria (2022): Democracy against right-wing violence. Mobile Beratung gegen Rechtsextremismus" in the context of authoritarian mobilizations, in: Leviathan, Special Volume 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 the restructuring of MBR in RLP, Stadt, Land, Quartier - Forschungsstelle Soziale Arbeit, Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, Ludwigshafen/Rhine.
Diedrich, Maria (2020): Preventing extremism vs. promoting democracy? Social work in the conflict over right-wing extremism, in: Siegen : Sozial, H. 1, pp. 4-13.
Bewernitz, Torsten; Diedrich, Maria (2020): "Wilder" Streik als Praxis der Bürgerschaft, in: Contradictions, H. 156, pp. 71-84.
Quent, Matthias (2016): Right-wing extremism and civic 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.
Working Group Strategic Unionism (2013): Jenaer Machtressourcenansatz 2.0, in: Schmalz, Stefan; Dörre, Klaus: Comeback der Gewerkschaften. Power resources, innovative practices, international perspectives, Frankfurt/Main, pp. 345-375.
Reviews, media contributions, fragments:
Interview, in: "Was hilft gegen Rechtsextremismus", SWR Das Wissen, 30.7.2024. https://www.swr.de/swrkultur/wissen/was-hilft-gegen-rechtsextremismus-wie-zivilgesellschaft-funktioniert-das-wissen-2024-07-31-102.html
Erxleben, Paul and Maria Diedrich 2023: "Right-wing extremism: extremely commonplace. Right-wing extremism research and social work sought dialog to counteract right-wing violence and ideology", in: nd aktuell, 17 February 2023. https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1171064.soziale-arbeitrechtsextremismus-extrem-alltaeglich.html
Diedrich, Maria (2022): Gegenöffentlichkeit als Praxis von Bildung, about: Friedemann Affolderbach: Public sphere from below. Demokratie, Öffentlichkeit und politische Bildung, in: Contradictions, Issue 164, pp. 119-122.
Diedrich, Maria (2021): Please queue at the bottom? via: Dörre, Klaus (2020): In the queue. Arbeiter*innen und die radikale Rechte, in: express, H. 2/2021. The review is available 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
| From September 2024 | Representation of the professorship for the teaching area "Social Work in the Context of Mental Crises" (25%) |
| October 2023 - April 2024 | Maternity/parental leave |
July 2021 - December 2021 | Team consultant in the project "Restructuring of Mobile Counseling for 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, Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, Ludwigshafen/Rhine |
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 Labor, Economics and Industry; Department of General and Theoretical Sociology |
2010 - 2013 | Sociology (M.A.), Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University. Jena |