Univ.-Kulturw. Dr. Gunnar Stange
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Univ.-Kulturw. Dr. Gunnar Stange
University Assitant (post doc)
Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstraße 7/5
1010 Vienna
Hours: Tuesday, 11:00–13:00 Uhr – please register gunnar.stange@univie.ac.at (not during the semester breaks)
Tel.: +43-1-4277-48732
Email: gunnar.stange@univie.ac.at
Biography
My fields of work and interest lie in the areas of peace and conflict research as well as development research. In particular, I am interested in the dynamics that transform armed conflicts into procedural conflicts and the processes by which competing groups of actors organise access to resources, which is often contentious. I am currently designing a research project in insular Southeast Asia that looks at the effects of internal refugee movements on local use of and access to resources in a comparative regional perspective. I am pursuing a qualitative, actor-centred research approach that methodologically follows participant observation during extended field research visits. Equally, it is important for me to conduct socially relevant research and make its findings accessible to both the actors I research and the non-university public. I studied languages, economics and cultural area studies with a focus on Southeast Asia at the University of Passau and completed my doctorate at the Institute of Ethnology at Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Research interests
Conceptual: anthropological conflict theory, development theories
Thematic: peace and conflict studies, flight and displacement, identity politics
Regional: insular Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia
Publications
2020
Stange, G. (Editorial Journalist), Sterly, H. (Editorial Journalist), Sakdapolrak, P. (Editorial Journalist), Borderon, M. (Editorial Journalist), Schraven, B. (Editorial Journalist), Serraglio, D. A. (Author), & Aleksandrova, M. (Author). (2020). Impeded migration as adaptation: COVID-19 and its implications for translocal strategies of environmental risk management. Web publication environmentalmigration.iom.int/blogs/impeded-migration-adaptation-covid-19-and-its-implications-translocal-strategies-environmental
Stange, G. (2020). Postsezessionismus: Politische Transformation und Identitätspolitik in Aceh, Indonesien, nach dem Friedensabkommen von Helsinki (2005-2012). regiospectra.
Stange, G., & Sasiwongsaroj, K. (2020). Transcultural Lives of Myanmar Migrant Youths in Thailand: Language Acquisition, Self-perceived Integration, and Sense of Belonging. International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 51(3-4). doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2020.3-4.13614
2019
Seto, A., Stange, G., & Schröter, S. (2019). Durable violence in Southeast Asia: Machinery and scale. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 12(2), 135-148. doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0018