Peter Ullrich

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Peter Ullrich (* 1976 in Naumburg (Saale) ) is a German sociologist and cultural scientist .

Life

After studying cultural sciences , sociology and German studies (Magister Artium), postgraduate studies in philosophy , the theory of logic and science as well as a doctoral degree on the subject of "Transnationalization and regionalization from the 18th century to the present" in Leipzig , Peter Ullrich joined the Free University in 2007 Berlin to Dr. phil. PhD (Topic: The Middle East Conflict and the Left in Great Britain and the FRG). He then worked as a research assistant at the University Hospital of Leipzig University , where he received his doctorate again in 2011 (Dr. rer. Med., Topic: old psychoanalysts) and as a postdoc researcher at the German Youth Institute in Halle. After a time as a visiting scholar at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin , he moved to the Technical University of Berlin . Here he is an employee at the Center for Technology and Society and a fellow at the Center for Research on Antisemitism . At the Center for Technology and Society he heads the research area “Social Movements, Technology, Conflicts”. It is also part of the " Institute for Protest and Movement Research ".

Ullrich researches mainly about protest and social movements , police and surveillance (especially video surveillance ) as well as anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism discourses, anti-Zionism and politics of remembrance. In the sense of a public sociology , Ullrich repeatedly participates in public and political discussions.

Public activity and scientific controversy

Anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism debates

In the dispute over anti-Semitism allegations against the party “Die Linke” in 2011, he defended the party against excessive allegations. In general, however, he also criticizes parts of the political left for their anti-Semitism, others for their philosemitism and militant Israeli solidarity, as well as the associated racist tendencies.

His study “Antisemitism as a problem and symbol”, which he wrote together with Michael Kohlstruck at the Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) , on different and competing interpretations of antisemitism, led to a controversy in 2015. The Berlin American Jewish Committee saw in the study what it considered to be an inaccurate accusation that “Jewish and civil society organizations exaggerated and instrumentalized anti-Semitic incidents”. The two authors, the project manager Werner Bergmann , and the head of the ZfA, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum , rejected this as politically motivated. The AJC simply misunderstood the core of the analysis. The study does not contain any allegations, but is a scientific representation of the various positions of the debate and their respective backgrounds, i.e. a sociological " observation of the observer ". Ullrich and Kohlstruck again took the controversy as an opportunity to analyze the “patterns of public communication about anti-Semitism” in the magazine conflict & communication online .

Social movements and police

Ullrich researches the police handling of protests, in particular video surveillance of demonstrators and their counter-reactions . He is the spokesman for the “Social Movements and Police” working group.

In the run-up to the G20 summit in Hamburg 2017 , Ullrich criticized the Hamburg police and the attitude of the Interior Senator Andy Grote (SPD), who said that when in doubt, he would also ignore political decisions. He saw this as a license for the Hamburg police , because Grote had made it clear that the authorities could do whatever they wanted. According to Ullrich, this approach can often be observed in social conflicts. "The police are pushed forward - and the actual conflict between protesters and politics turns into a conflict between protesters and police." Thus politics is out of the firing line. Such massive police operations as in Hamburg would also lead to a  polarization  in society as a whole. "Some of the people criticize the police massively, while people from the conservative and regulatory milieu demand an even tougher pace," he told ARD. The Hamburg police and Hamburg politicians are trying to resolve this dilemma at the demonstrators' expense - by cracking down on them with all severity. “There is no longer any weighing up, every measure has been lost.” Ullrich described this as a “highly problematic situation”. The police are actually obliged by law and court rulings to behave “friendly to meetings”.

Like other protest and police researchers, Ullrich also calls for an independent investigation into the incidents.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Opponents of globalization? Protest mobilization for the G8 summit in Genoa, Hochschulschriften Vol. 6, Leipzig / Schkeuditz: GNN, 2003.
• Limited universalism. Socialism, communism, the workers' movement and their difficult relationship to Judaism and the Middle East conflict, Berlin: AphorismA, 2007
• The left, Israel and Palestine. Middle East discourses in Great Britain and Germany, Berlin: Dietz, 2008.
• The royal road to liberation or the dead end of history? BDS | Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. Approaches to a Current Debate. AphorismA Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2011, series: Kleine Texte, No. 38 (together with Kathrin Vogler and Martin Forberg).
• The middle in transition. Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany, Bonn: Dietz, 2012 (by Decker, Oliver; Kiess, Johannes; Brähler, Elmar, with the collaboration of Benjamin Schilling and Peter Ullrich).
• Left, Middle East conflict, anti-Semitism. Signpost through a debate. An annotated bibliography, “Analyzes” series, Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, 2012.
• Germans, leftists and the Middle East conflict. Politics in the anti-Semitism and memory discourse, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013.
• Anti-Semitism as a problem and symbol. Phenomena and interventions in Berlin, Berlin: State Commission Berlin Against Violence, 2015 (together with Michael Kohlstruck).

Editorships

• Europe - Transnational Standardization and National Insistence (ed. Together with Thomas Kachel), Berlin: Dietz, 2005.
• Criticism with method? Research methods and social criticism (edited together with Freikamp, ​​Ulrike; Leanza, Matthias; Mende, Janne; Müller, Stefan; Voß, Heinz-Jürgen ), Berlin: Dietz 2008.
• Loss of control. Interventions against surveillance (edited by Leipziger Kamera), Münster: Unrast Verlag, 2009
• Prevent and Tame. Protest under (Self-) Control (ed. Together with Florian Heßdörfer and Andrea Pabst), Berlin: Dietz, 2010.
• Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research (ed. Together with Britta Baumgarten and Priska Daphi), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Web links

• Peter Ullrich's private website
• Vita on the website of the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin
• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Technical University of Berlin, Center for Technology and Society
• Vita on the website of the Institute for Protest and Movement Research i. G.
• Literature by and about Peter Ullrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview on the Middle East and anti-Semitism dispute in the German left
• Peter Ullrich in a radio interview about his career, movements, protest and anti-Semitism

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ullrich, Peter 2011: Alte Psychoanalysts / -innen. Retirement and employment of therapists in old age. Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, Univ. Leipzig, Diss., Http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-74797
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://protestinstitut.eu/team/
4. ↑ Ullrich, Peter 2010: The Middle East Conflict - Playing Field for a New Anti-Semitism from the Left? An international discourse comparison. In: Hawel, Marcus; Blanke, Moritz (Ed.): The Middle East Conflict. Sensitivities of the German left. Berlin: Dietz, pp. 67-80; "Interview: Left anti-Semitism?", Telepolis, June 11, 2011, Ullrich, Peter 2012: Debates of the German Left on the Middle East conflict - discursive gray areas and the pitfalls of solidarity , A conversation with Peter Ullrich, led by Peter Nowak, Globkult Magazin, May 31, 2012, http://www.globkult.de/politik/deutschland/747-debatten-der-deutschen-linken-um-den-nahost-konflikt-diskursive-grauzonen-und-die-fallstricke-der-solidaritaet
5. ↑ AJC rejects allegations by anti-Semitism researchers | American Jewish Committee Berlin Office. Retrieved October 19, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Michael Kohlstruck, Peter Ullrich, Werner Bergmann, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: Opinion on the AJC's criticism of the study “Antisemitism as a problem and symbol. Phenomena and Interventions in Berlin ”. (PDF) February 12, 2015, accessed October 19, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Ullrich, Peter, Kohlstruck, Michael: Patterns of public communication about anti-Semitism. The example of the reception of the study “Anti-Semitism as a problem and symbol” . tape 16 , no. 1 , 2017, doi : 10.14279 / depositonce-5896 ( regener-online.de [PDF; accessed on October 19, 2017]).
8. ^ Center for Technology and Society: Video surveillance of meetings and demonstrations. Practice and forms of knowledge of police and protesters (ViDemo). Retrieved October 19, 2017 . 
9. ^ AK Social Movements and Police - Institute for Protest and Movement Research. Retrieved October 19, 2017 . 
10. ↑ tagesschau.de: G20: “The police are in a dilemma”. Retrieved July 18, 2017 . 
11. ↑ # NoG20: Escalation with announcement. The ipb in the media - Institute for Protest and Movement Research. Retrieved October 19, 2017 . 
12. ↑ G20 - why did the summit escalate? Interview with ipb researcher Peter Ullrich - Institute for Protest and Movement Research. Retrieved October 19, 2017 . 
13. ↑ http://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Publ-Texte/Texte_48.pdf
14. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ http://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Analysen/Analyse_Linke-u-Nahostkonflikt.pdf
16. ↑ Peter Ullrich: Germans, Left and the Middle East Conflict: Politics in the Anti-Semitism and Remembrance Discourse . Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-2467-1 ( ssoar.info [accessed October 19, 2017]).
17. ↑ Michael Kohlstruck, Peter Ullrich: Anti-Semitism as a problem and symbol: phenomena and interventions in Berlin (=  Berlin forum for violence prevention . No. 52 ). 2nd Edition. Berlin 2015 ( tu-berlin.de [PDF; accessed October 19, 2017]).