Dr. Harald Sterly

Senior Scientist

 

 

Contact

Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstraße 7/5, D512
1010 Wien

Tel.: +43-1-4277-48731

Email: harald.sterly@univie.ac.at

Teaching

Course directory

Biography

As a human geographer, I focus on the spatial and social aspects of the intersection of climate and environmental change and different forms of mobility and migration. A specific interest lies on the outcomes of migration and translocal connectivities on the scope for people's agency and their vulnerability and resilience. At present, I am based as a Senior Scientist in the Department of Geography at the University of Vienna, from where I conduct empirical research with mixed methods approaches in Europe, Africa, as well as in Southeast, Central and South Asia. I have done my Diploma (MSc) in Geography at the University of Cologne and a postgraduate course in international development cooperation at the Humboldt-University Berlin. My PhD thesis focused on mobile communication and translocal social relations of rural-to-urban migrants in Bangladesh. In the past, I have coordinated research projects on mega-urban dynamics and informality in Bangladesh and China, and on the linkages between migration, translocal connections and social resilience in Thailand.

Research interests

Conceptual: spatiality of livelihoods, translocality, relational sociology, practice theories, science and technology studies, communication and digitalization

Thematic: migration, vulnerability, urbanization, rural-urban relations, development

Regional: South East Asia (Thailand), South Asia (Bangladesh), East Africa (Kenya, Somalia)

Publications

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Hackenbroch, K., & Sterly, H. (2019). Dhaka: A Rapidly Expanding and Economically Dynamic Agglomeration. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change (pp. 40-51). Bornträger.
Kraas, F., Kroll, M., & Sterly, H. (2019). Global Megacity Dynamics. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change (pp. 25-32). Bornträger.
Hackenbroch, K., Altrock, U., & Sterly, H. (2019). Governance of the Megacity: Challenges for Service Provision and Planning. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change: Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China (pp. 66-70). Schweizerbart.
Sterly, H. (2019). Informality. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change (pp. 148-157). Bornträger.
Peters, M., & Sterly, H. (2019). Interdisciplinarity. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change (pp. 174-175). Bornträger.
Kraas, F., Hackenbroch, K., Sterly, H., Heintzenberg, J., Herrle, P., & Kreibich, V. (2019). Mega Cities Mega Challenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pearl River Delta, China. Schweizerbart.
Salah, A. A., Altuncu, M. T., Balcisoy, S., Frydenlund, E., Mamei, M., Akyol, M. A., Arslanli, K. Y., Bensason, I., Boshuijzen-van Burken, C., Bosetti, P., Boy, J., Bozcaga, T., Cilasun, S. M., Işik, O., Kalaycioglu, S., Kaptaner, A. S., Kayi, I., Ozan, Ö., Kjamili, B., ... Uluturk, I. (2019). Policy Implications of the D4R Challenge. In A. A. Salah, A. Pentland, B. Lepri, & E. Letouzé (Eds.), Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios: The ‘Data for Refugees Challenge’ Study (pp. 477-495) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_25
Kraas, F., Sterly, H., & Kroll, M. (2019). Reflections and Outlook. In F. Kraas, K. Hackenbroch, H. Sterly, J. Heintzenberg, P. Herrle, & V. Kreibich (Eds.), MegaCities MegaChallenge - Informal Dynamics of Gobal Change (pp. 178-195). Bornträger.
Bunchuay-Peth, S. A., Sterly, H., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2018). Between the village and the global city: the production and decay of translocal spaces of Thai migrant workers in Singapore. Mobilities, 13(4), 455-472. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2018.1449785, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2018.1449785
Fünfgeld, H., Sterly, H., Sakdapolrak, P., Bunchuay-Peth, S. A., Naruchaikusol, S., Ober, K., Porst, L., Rockenbauch, T., Akarawongwiriya, T., Chanthavorn, S., Ketsomboon, B., Khruajinli, D., Promrit, S., Sangya-Arun, R., & Sekararith, T. (2018). Migration for Adaptation. A Guidebook for Integrating Migration and Translocality into Community-Based Adaptation.
Sterly, H. (2017). Regionalization revisited: Mediatization of translocal social practices and the spatial reconfiguration of life in rural-urban Bangladesh. In T. Felgenhauer, & K. Gäbler (Eds.), Geographies of Digital Culture (pp. 52-70). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315302959_4
Sterly, H. (2017). Wo bleiben eigentlich all die „Klimaflüchtlinge“? Geographie heute, 335, 24-27.
Hackenbroch, K., Hossain, S., Altrock, U., Schoon, S., & Sterly, H. (2016). Informality, urban governance and the state: negotiations of space in Dhaka and the Pearl River Delta. International Development Planning Review, 38(3), 229–253. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2016.14
Bork-Hüffer, T., Etzold, B., Gransow, B., Tomba, L., Sterly, H., Suda, K., Kraas, F., & Flock, R. (2016). Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces: Examples of Migrants in the City in the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Population, Space and Place, 22(2), 128-145. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.1890
Sterly, H., & Gerads, D. (2016). “Call Me in the Dorm”. Mobile Communication and the Shifting Topographies of Intimate Relationships in Bangladesh. Internationales Asienforum, 273–296. https://doi.org/10.11588/IAF.2016.47.3684
Sterly, H., Ober, K., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2016). Migration for Human Security? The Contribution of Translocality to Social Resilience. Georgetown Journal of Asia Affairs, 3(1), 57-66. http://www.transre.org/application/files/6315/3838/8827/GJAA_Vol.3_No.1.pdf
Hillmann, F., Pahl, M., Rafflenbeul, B., & Sterly, H. (2015). Conclusion: Linking Migration, Environmental Change and Adaptation - Lessons Learnt. In F. Hillmann, M. Pahl, B. Rafflenbeul, & H. Sterly (Eds.), Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration: bringing in the region (pp. 283-290). Palgrave Macmillan.
Hillmann, F., Pahl, M., Rafflenbeul, B., & Sterly, H. (Eds.) (2015). Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration: Bringing in the Region. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137538918
Hillmann, F., Pahl, M., Rafflenbeul, B., & Sterly, H. (2015). Introduction: (Re-)locating the Nexus of Migration, Environmental Change and Adaptation. In F. Hillmann, M. Pahl, B. Rafflenbeul, & H. Sterly (Eds.), Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration: bringing in the region (pp. 1-17). Palgrave Macmillan.
Sterly, H. (2015). “Without Mobile Suppose I Had to Go There” — Mobile Communication in Translocal Family Constellations in Bangladesh. Asien: the German journal on contemporary Asia, 134, 31-46.
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