First Nation Community, Canada (2008)

Philipp Budka is a postdoc at the department and part of the ERC funded project InfraNorth, which focuses on the role of transport infrastructures in the Arctic. He ethnographically explores affordances of transport infrastructures in sustaining communities in (Sub-)Arctic Canada.

Community of Ilulissat, Greenland (2021)

Olga Povoroznyuk is a postdoc at the department and Co-PI of the ERC funded project InfraNorth, which focuses on the role of transport infrastructures in the Arctic.

The Zavoj lake emerged in 1963 after a major landslide dammed a mountain river and drove villagers into towns. The hydropower plant that Yugoslav state built there is now understood as the start of long environmental violence which still structures the region’s energy transition.
Zavoj Lake at Stara planina, on the Serbian side of the Balkans mountains (2021)

Ivan Rajkovic is a postdoc at the department and part of Tatjana Thelen's research team. His current research explores the shift from work to ‘nature’ as the basis of new political alliances in the Balkans.

The picture was taken during a fieldwork trip to Zambia, as part of a research project on how large-scale agricultural investments interact with critique - from NGOs, rural residents, journalists, etc. In this particular case, a European investor had obtained about 38,000 hectares of land. On a small part of this land, it has installed irrigation systems, so to make it possible to have two harvests per year (2018).
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Tijo Salverda was a (fixed-term) professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and lecturer at the department. His research focuses on elites and corporate actors, particularly how they perceive and respond to counter-power, social and ethnic mobilisation, and efforts to mitigate the negative impacts of corporate practices.

An Icefojord - the main tourist attraction of Ilulissat, Greenland (2021)

Peter Schweitzer is professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and PI of the ERC funded project InfraNorth, which focuses on the role of transport infrastructures in the Arctic.

State maternity hospital in Kharkov, Ukraine (2015)

Veronika Siegl is a senior research fellow at the department and part of Janina Kehr's research team. She explores how the category of “life” is negotiated in the context of prenatal testing and late abortions.

Methodology of collective and participatory mapping in the north of the Cauca.
region of Cauca and the sub-region of Norte del Cauca, Colombia (2021)

Marcela Torres Heredia is a PhD candidate at the department. Her research focuses on the role of knowledge and epistemology - between colonial reproduction and social alternatives.

Concrete historical urban landscape, Place de l'Indépendance
Dakar Plateau, Senegal (2019)

Pierre Wenzel is a PhD candidate at the department and part of Manuela Ciotti's research team. His research in urban anthropology investigates the entanglements between cementification and urbanization in Dakar (Senegal).

ruin of the research center in Beirut, Lebanon (2021)

Klaudia Wieser is a PhD candidate at the department. Her research is part of and based on the APPEAR (Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research Development) project Rooting Development in the Palestinian Context (http://rootingdevelopment.com).