Rainer Rilling

Rainer Rilling, 2015

Rainer Rilling (born October 14, 1945 in Stetten ) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and an adjunct professor of sociology at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Life

Rilling studied political science , sociology and modern history at the University of Marburg from 1966 to 1973 .

In 1973 he did his doctorate at the University of Bremen under Lothar Peter with a thesis on arms research and arms policy. 1974–1980 he worked as a research assistant and lecturer in the social sciences department at the University of Marburg, where he qualified as a professor in 1980 in sociology. After two years of unemployment, residency as a European Visiting Scholar of the International Studies Association at the F. Byrnes Center at the University of South Carolina in Columbia (USA). Until 1999 he worked as a lecturer in Münster and Marburg and completed several study and research stays in the USA and England. In 2002 he was appointed adjunct professor for sociology at the University of Marburg.

1983–1998 he worked as managing director of the Federation of Democratic Scientists (BdWi). From 1999–2011 he was initially head of the research and information department of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Berlin), then a member of the “Science and Politics” project group and scientific advisor or deputy director in the area of ​​policy analysis at the RLS (since November 2008: Institute for social analysis of the RLS).

Research priorities

After Rilling initially dealt with the analysis of neo-fascism (NPD) and state socialist societies in the tradition of the Marburg School in the field of political sociology, his work subsequently focused on the sociology of science, peace research and the political sociology of communication, especially the Internets. In the last decade he has concentrated on the political economy of property (commons, the public) and contemporary capitalism, on international relations (with a focus on the USA and the debate about the “Empire” and geopolitics ) and questions about the development of the political left in Federal Republic.

Others

As a student, Rilling was a member of the SDS until its self-dissolution , 1989–2002 board member of the Information Center Science and Peace (Bonn), 1983–2011 co-editor (1983 ff.), And advisory board member (1998 ff.) Of the Information Service Science and Peace (later "W&F") and the series Science and Peace (until 1998) as well as the papers for German and international politics (since 1986); From 1983 to 1998 he was editor of the journal Forum Wissenschaft and from 2009 a member of the editorial team of the RLS journal LuXemburg . Rilling is a board member of the GegenStand Foundation (Marburg) and LinksNet eV He is also on the advisory board of wissentransfer and a member of the scientific advisory board of attac .

He is a member of ver.di , the Federation of Democratic Scientists, the natural scientist initiative “Responsibility for Peace and Sustainability”, the Association for Critical Social Research and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation's sponsoring association.

Fonts (selection)

Political Sociology

• The car: no future nowhere? (PDF file; 57 kB). In: Mario Candeias , Rainer Rilling, Bernd Röttger, Stefan Thimmel (eds.): Global economy of the car. Mobility | work | conversion. Hamburg 2011, pp. 220-227.
• When the hut is on fire ... In: Luxembourg. 3/2011, pp. 134-139. ( Long version )
• Why socialist transformation research? (DOC file; 36 kB). Opening lecture at the 1st International Transformation Conference of the IfG of the RLS on October 13, 2011 ( video documentation )
• A plea for the public. In: Mario Candeias, Rainer Rilling, Katharina Weise (eds.): Crisis of privatization. Return of the public. (PDF file; 831 kB). Berlin 2009, pp. 175-190.
• Beyond the crisis: Empowering the Public! (PDF file; 191 kB). Policy paper of RLS 5/2009.
• A question of violence. Answers from the left. Berlin 2008.
• Cracks in the empire. Dietz, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-320-02159-7 .
• Internet . In: Wolfgang Fritz Haug (Ed.): Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism. Volume 6 / II, Berlin 2004, pp. 1446-1459.
• Viral ownership patterns. In: Ingrid Lohmann , Rainer Rilling (Hrsg.): The education sold. Criticism and controversy about the commercialization of schools, further education, upbringing and science. Opladen 2001, pp. 303-313.
• On the way to cyber democracy? In: Mathias Fechter (Ed.): Democracy at the interface. New media and political perspectives. Frankfurt 1997, pp. 12-31. (extended in: Telepolis )
• Internet and democracy. In: WSI-Mitteilungen. 3/1997, pp. 194-205.

Social structure research

• The forgotten bourgeoisie. About an omission of political sociology. In: The argument. 131, 1982, pp. 34-47.
• Intellectual. The Bourdieu of the left. In: E. Böhlke, R. Rilling (Ed.): Bourdieu and the Left. Berlin 2007, pp. 9-16.

Science research

• Theory and Sociology of Science. On the development in FRG and GDR. Frankfurt 1975, DNB 750278706 .
• War research and extermination science in the FRG. Cologne 1970, DNB 457945788 .
• Military research in the FRG. In: Sheets for German and international politics. 8/1982, pp. 938-967.
• Military research in the Federal Republic of Germany. In: R. Braun, W. Buckel, E. Kankeleit, R. Rilling (Eds.): Armaments research. Discussion of the problems and alternatives. Conference in Karlsruhe on 27./28. June 1987. Marburg 1988, ISBN 3-924684-12-X , pp. 74-93.

Analysis of fascism

• with Reinhard Kühnl and Christine Sager: The NPD. Structure, ideology and function of a neo-fascist party. Frankfurt 1969, DNB 457312491 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer Rilling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rainer Rilling's blog

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information Service Science and Peace
2. ^ Forum Science
3. ↑ Magazine Luxembourg
4. ↑ LinksNet eV
5. ↑ knowledge transfer
6. ^ Members of the scientific advisory board. In: Attac. Retrieved July 13, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Natural Scientists Initiative Responsibility for Peace and Sustainability ( Memento from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
8. ^ Association for Critical Social Research (AkG)