EnMoTe - Environments, Mobilities, Technologies

EnMoTe stands for “Environments, Mobilities, Technologies”, which delineates a field of anthropological inquiry focusing on human-environmental relations, including built environments and infrastructures, as well as on the flows and movements of human and non-human beings, things, and ideas. Our research is focused on but not limited to 1) the circumpolar North and other remote “resource frontiers,” and 2) the former Soviet Union and other post-socialist areas. While our team consists primarily of social and cultural anthropologists, EnMoTe acknowledges the potential of collaborating with scholars from other social science disciplines, the humanities, arts and natural sciences. While many of the team members work closely with Prof. Schweitzer, the goal of EnMoTe is to provide a forum for debates about environments, mobilities and technologies within the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and beyond.

EnMoTe News

11.11.2022

Master’s thesis on human-infrastructural relations in Eastern Siberia defended

On October 21, 2022, Gertraud Illmeier successfully defended her Master’s thesis on the topic “Oil infrastructures and their affordances for ‘traditional’ livelihoods in Eastern Siberia”.

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27.09.2022

Olga Povoroznyuk has defended her PhD-thesis

Olga Povoroznyuk successfully defended her PhD-thesis "Soviet Infrastructure in the Post-Soviet Era? Building a Railroad and Identity along the Baikal–Amur Mainline in East Siberia"

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17.12.2021

CoRe results presented at the department‘s early stage researchers week

Olga Povoroznyuk presented a poster featuring results of her research on CoRe at the meeting of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna

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