Oliver Decker

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Oliver Decker (* 1968 ) is a German social psychologist , sociologist and right-wing extremism researcher . He is director of the competence center for right-wing extremism and democracy research at the University of Leipzig and head of the research area at the department for medical psychology and medical sociology there.

Life

After graduating from the Erasmus-Gymnasium Grevenbroich in 1989 , Decker studied psychology , sociology and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . He graduated with a degree in psychology and was in 2003 at the School of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Kassel with the dissertation The prosthesis God - subjectivity and transplantation medicine to Dr. phil. PhD. In 2010 he completed his habilitation at the Institute for Sociology at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover . His brother is the Berlin art lawyer and supervisory board member Pascal Decker .

Academic positions

Decker is head of the research area "Social and Medical Change" in the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology at the University of Leipzig. In 2013 he founded the competence center for right-wing extremism and democracy research at the University of Leipzig , among others with the political scientist Gert Pickel and the social psychologist Immo Fritsche. Together with political scientist Gudrun Hentges, he has been the spokesman for the Graduate School Right-Wing Populism of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 2018 . In 2015, Decker was visiting professor at the School of Visual Arts New York , Department of Critical Theory and the Arts . In 2010 he became a private lecturer at the Institute for Sociology at Leibniz Universität Hannover, from 2010 to 2013 he represented the professorship for social psychology at the Faculty of Education, Architecture and Arts at the University of Siegen, and in 2012 he was an Honorary Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London .

research

His research focus is the critical theory of society. Using this social theory, Decker et al. a. the socialization of the body and its processing by medicine. One of his main publications on this is the monograph Commodified Bodies (2014), which was about a reconstruction of a commodity-producing society and modern medicine using Benjamin's assembly technique. This study was preceded by the monograph Der Prothesengott - Subjectivity der Transplanationsmedizin (2004), in which the effect of body supplements was examined using the example of organ transplantation .

Since 2002, he and Elmar Brähler have been leading the series of studies known as the “ Center Studies on Right-Wing Extrem Attitudes in Germany ”. This study, which follows the tradition of “studies on authoritarian character ”, is based on representative surveys and group discussions. The spread of right-wing extremist attitudes and their influencing factors are examined. The main results are the function of the economy in post-war Germany as a “narcissistic seal”, as well as the effect of a “secondary authoritarianism” in Germany.

As a founding member of the network “Integration, Xenophobia and Right-Wing Extremism Research in Saxony” (IFRiS), Decker is currently involved in an investigation into migration. Together with the sociologist and political scientist Alexander Yendell, he leads the research projects “Leipzig Conflict Area” and “Leipzig Youth Study”.

Together with Christoph Türcke , he has organized the conference series "Critical Theory - Psychoanalytic Practice" since 2005, in which various topics such as sacrifice, money and ritual are discussed. The book “From KZ zum Eigenheim - Pictures of a Model Settlement”, which appeared in 2016, arose from close contact with artists. Using the means of social research and author photography, the socio-political situation in Germany is recorded using the example of Tröglitz . The book was recommended to be read by the literary editorial team Deutschlandradio Kultur in August 2016.

Decker is editor of the journal Psychoanalyse - Texte zur Sozialforschung (since 1998) and co-editor of the journal Psychosozial (since 2014). Before that he was co-editor of the journal Psychotherapie & Sozialwissenschaft and guest editor of other publications.

Others

Decker works as a reviewer for various scientific journals (including European Sociological Review, International Journal of Conflict & Violence, Journal für Psychologie, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Social Psychology, Social Science Research, The Lancet Global Health, Zeitschrift für Comparative Politikwissenschaft) . He was also a reviewer for Yale University Press and the DFG Junior Academy Health Services Research , was a member of the jury for the FORENA Junior Award for the research focus on right-wing extremism / neo-Nazism at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and in 2012 was a member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Bioethics Education of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics in Zefat , Israel. He is u. a. Member of the German Society for Sociology , the German Society for Medical Psychology and Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory From 2015 to 2017, Decker was also a treasurer in the spokespersons of the Social Psychology Section of the German Society for Psychology . In the tradition of critical theory, he works in the International Research Group for Psycho-Societal Analysis.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • The prosthetic god. Subjectivity and Transplant Medicine . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2004, ISBN 3-89806-310-0 .
  • The body of goods. On the social psychology of medicine . zu Klampen, Springe 2011, ISBN 978-3-86674-149-2 .
  • with Elmar Brähler , Johannes Kiess: Right-wing extremism in the middle. A socio-psychological diagnosis of the present . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8379-2294-3 .
  • Commodified Bodies Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade (= Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society ). Routledge, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-415-85483-2 .

Middle Studies:

  • with Oskar Niedermayer, Elmar Brähler (2003). Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany 2002. Results of a representative survey. Journal of Psychotraumatology and Psychological Medicine 1, 65–77.
  • with Elmar Brähler (2005). Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany 2004. From Politics and Current Affairs 42, 8–17. [1]
  • with Elmar Brähler: From the edge to the middle. Right-wing extremist attitudes and their influencing factors in Germany . Published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Forum Berlin, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-89892-566-2 . ( PDF )
  • with Elmar Brähler: movement in the middle. Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany 2008. With a comparison from 2002 to 2008 and the federal states . On behalf and ed. from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Forum Berlin. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86872-002-0 . ( PDF )
  • with Marliese Weißmann, Johannes Kiess, Elmar Brähler: The middle in the crisis. Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany 2010 . Edited by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, zu Klampen, Springe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86872-469-1 . ( PDF )
  • with Johannes Kiess, Elmar Brähler: The middle in transition. Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany 2012 . Edited for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung by Ralf Melzer, Dietz, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-8012-0429-7 . ( PDF )
  • with Johannes Kiess, Elmar Brähler: The stabilized center. Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany 2014 . Leipzig 2014. ( PDF )
  • with Johannes Kiess, Elmar Brähler: The uninhibited center. Authoritarian and right-wing extremist attitude in Germany. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8379-2630-9 ( PDF )
  • with Frank Berger (photos), Falk Haberkorn (photos): From concentration camp to home: pictures of a model settlement. zu Klampen, Springe 2016, ISBN 978-3-86674-541-4 .

Editorships

  • ed. with Christoph Türcke : Critical Theory - Psychoanalytic Practice . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89806-593-1 .
  • ed. with Tobias Grave: Critical Theory Currently. For Christoph Türcke on his sixtieth birthday . zu Klampen, Springe 2008, ISBN 978-3-86674-032-7 .
  • ed. with Christoph Türcke, Tobias Grave: Money. Critical Theory and Psychoanalytic Practice . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8379-2128-1 .
  • ed. with Tobias Grave, Hannes Gießler, Christoph Türcke. Victim. Critical Theory and Psychoanalytic Practice . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8379-2533-3
  • ed. with Christoph Türcke: Ritual: Critical Theory and Psychoanalytic Practice . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8379-2833-4
  • Social Psychology and Social Theory. Textbook in two volumes. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-531-19564-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Homepage of the center
  2. ^ Medical and social change
  3. ↑ IFRiS homepage
  4. ↑ Homepage of the Leipzig conflict area
  5. ^ Website of the University of Leipzig describing the study .
  6. ↑ Reading tips from the literary editors. Book recommendations August 2016. In: Deutschlandradio.de. August 2, 2016, accessed March 18, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Biography on the homepage of the University of Leipzig, accessed on July 6, 2016
  8. ↑ Homepage of the group
  9. ↑ Membership list of the IRGPSA
personal data
SURNAME Decker, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social psychologist, sociologist and right-wing extremism researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1968