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.
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 |
