Fabian Virchow

Fabian Virchow (* 1960 in Heiligenhafen ) is a German social scientist .

Career

Virchow studied sociology with a focus on political science , economics, and economic and social history at the University of Hamburg (graduate sociologist). In 2005 he was funded by the Hans Böckler Foundation at Hajo Funke and Wolfgang Wippermann at the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the geopolitical and military-political conceptions of the extreme right to the Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

He was then a lecturer at the Kiel University of Applied Sciences , the University of Lüneburg and the Philipps University of Marburg as well as a visiting professor at the University of Salzburg . In 2006/07 he was a professor at the Center for Conflict Research at the Philipps University of Marburg, where he is still a member today. From 2007 to 2010 he was the editor-in-chief of the journal Science and Peace . In March 2010, he received the call to the professor of political science at the University of Applied Sciences Dusseldorf ( theories of social and political action ). In addition, he took over the management of the research focus right-wing extremism / neo-Nazism (FORENA). Virchow's research interests include cultural research, communication, international relations , military sociology , social movements and right-wing extremism .

Virchow is co-editor of the series Edition right-wing extremism at Springer VS .

Against civilism. International relations and the military in the political conceptions of the extreme right (= research politics ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-531-15007-9 .
with Tanja Thomas (Hrsg.): Banal Militarism - On the everydayization of the military in the civil (= Cultural studies . Vol. 13). Transcript, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89942-356-9 .
with Rikke Schubart , Debra White-Stanley, Tanja Thomas (eds.): War Isn't Hell, It's Entertainment. Essays on Visual Media and the Representation of Conflict . McFarland, Jefferson 2007, ISBN 978-0-7864-3558-6 .
with Christian Dornbusch (Ed.): 88 questions and answers on the NPD. Worldview, strategy and appearance of a right-wing party - and what democrats can do about it . Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-89974-365-4 .
with Martina Thiele , Tanja Thomas (eds.): Media - War - Gender. Affirmations and irritations of social orders (= media - culture - communication ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16730-5 .
with Bente Gießelmann, Robin Heun, Benjamin Kerst, Lenard Suermann (eds.): Concise dictionary of right-wing extremist fighting terms . Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach 2015, ISBN 978-3-7344-0155-8 .
with Martin Langebach, Alexander Häusler (eds.): Handbook for right-wing extremism (= right-wing extremism edition ). Volume 1: Analyzes . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-531-18502-6 .