Eingereichte Masterarbeitsthemen

Ria-Maria Adams

• Imaginaries of Sustainability - Negotiating Sustainability in Mega-Infrastructure Project: The Case of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel
• Winter Landscapes in Transition: Relational Perspectives on Snow and Tourism in the Lech Valley

• For the Land and Its People: Grassroots Environmental Justice Struggles in Catalonia
• The Perception of international students on the Austrian Immigration policy
• Vijana wa leo, mapambano ya jana: Colonial legacies influencing youth resistance in Kenya

• Toxic space making in Bretagne
• Chemo-assemblages in an Austrian village: organic and conventional wine producers' motivations

• Maintaning Ties and Creating New Connections: The Impact of Internet-Enabled Social Media Platforms on Social Networks Among Thai First Generation Immigrants in Austria
• Friction and Access: Language Infrastructure in Vienna's Bureaucracy from the Perspective of Non-German Speakers

• Ljubljana: European Green Capital - a network analysis
• Roasting Value. Ethical production and the creation of value along the coffee chain.
• how is a good death "defined according to the funeral industry in vienna: What are the trends in burial rituals in the city of vienna as they are offered by the Bestattung Wien, how have the burial rituals shifted, and why?
• Restrictive Policies and Migration Experiences in Switzerland
• Migration Governance in the Mediterranean Sea an the counterstrategies of SAR NGOs

• How do second-generation Bosnian youth in Vienna construct sense of belonging through cultural practices intergenerational transmission and engagement with community or religious institutions amid integration and assimilation processes?

• WAGMI (we're all gonna make it)... NFA (not financial advise): Narratives, Ideologies and Imaginaries of Techno-optimism, Art and Belonging in communities creted around blockchain technologies
• Privatisation of spaceflight and it's impact on imagined future
• When Art imitates Art - Originals and replicas in conversation
• Astro American Football An anthropological study of the cultural effects of American Football on Austrian College Football players

• Die Ozeanien-Sammlung Rudolf Pöchs am Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie und die koloniale Produktion von Wissen

• Making Mothers. Mutterschaft im Kontext assistierter Reproduktionstechnologien am Beispiel der Eizellenspende in Wien
• Der Garten als Therapie - mehr als menschliche Beziehungen in einer Wiener Klinik
• Epistemologische Aushandlungsprozesse in einer Wiener Einrichtung für Geflüchtete mit psychiatrischen Diagnosen
• From Disengagement to Belonging: An Ethnographic Study of Ibasho in a Japanese Free School
• Community - making and care networks: from local to transnational dynamics among Latin American migrants in Vienna, Austria
• Reproduktive Selbstbestimmung als kollektive Praxis: Solidarität und politische Teilhabe in der feministischen Bewegung Causa Justa
• Wechseljahre im Diskurs: Gesellschaftliche Vorstellungen, Körperbilder und Erfahrungen von Frauen in Österreich

• The Unwanted: Child abandonment in Marocco

René Kuppe

• Rails and Rights: An in-depth analysis of the Tren Maya and its impact on Indigenous Rights and Resistance in Mexico
• Negotiating Belonging: Minority Language Politics, Identity Construction and Online Representation of the Sorbs in Saxony and Brandenburg
• Wer ist Ecuador? Nationale Identitätskonstruktionen im postkolonialen Kontext

• Die Bedeutung der Natur als Lernraum für Kinder und Jugendliche: (Lern-)Erfahrungen von Schüler*innen an der Nationalparkmittelschule in Illmitz
• Knowledge in Motion: An Anthropological Inquiry into Organizational Learning and Knowledge Culture in Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects

• Biomedizin in Pouebo, Neukaledonien
• la Biennale de Lyon - Between a Global Vocation and a Local Participation
• Kaffeproduktion in Papua Neuguinea
• Digital repatriation as a tool for decolonising museum space
• Zwischen Scherbe und Kultur: Epistemologie der Auslegung
  Kultur- und sozialanthropologische Teorien und ihre Rolle in archäologischen Deutungsprozessen
• Australia’s First Nation Art Matters: Art as a tool of active heritage-making and decolonising

María Fernanda Olarte Sierra

• Der Umgang mit den Tod in Mexiko / Celebrating death in Mexico
• Community at the Table: The Role of Cuisine in Shaping the Homeland Sentiments in the Peruvian Diaspora in Barcelona/Spain
• Comedy and Well-being

• Stuck between: Refugees in Bosnia-Herzegovina and their life in transition
• West African migrants and their Transnational Family Relationships in the Context of ICTS
• Making a baby online

• Introducing social anthropology in Russia: a discipline in search of identity and place in the knowledge system
• Cycling Practices and Urban Infrastructure in Vienna
• Performing Sakha Identities: a National Celebration of the Sakha European Diasporas in Germany
• Authenticity as Layerd Practice: Alaska Native Artists in the Contemporary Art World
• From Object to "Cultural belonging": anthropological analysis of curatorial practices, ethics ans discussion of ownership in heritage management (Context of Museums in Alaska and Vienna)
• The End of Kings: Adaptive Strategies in Subsistence Sharing and Knowledge Networks in Deplated Alaskan Resource Frontiers

• Folloving water: consumtion and scarcity of a vital good in California

• Ghosted and left on read: Digital silence, intimacy and boundary-work in Lagos

• Promoting Diversity by Providing Space - An Ethnographic Study of the Vienna Based Organization Diversoviel and its Community Space

• "Kritische Männlichkeiten* in prozessorientierten Workshops - Eine queer-feministische Analyse zur Dekonstruktion von Geschlechterbildern"
• The Spectacle of Belonging: Tourism, Authenticity and the Right to Place in Alicante, Spain
• How do residents ot Seestadt Aspern actually appropriate semi-public recreational spaces (such as balconies)
• (Negotiating) LGBTQ+ specialised elderly care: the affective materialities, labour, and social reproduction of LGBTQ+ specialised elderly care institutions

• Irregular (Undocumented) Migration: A Focus on Undocumented Migrants Access to Health Care in Vienna
• The Death of Hip Hop? Opportunities and challenges in the Rap scene of Lyon, France
• Promoting the adoption of RECP (Resource Efficient and Cleaner Produktion / through the extablishment of a Cleaner Production Center (CPC) in Ukraine and its influence on the environmental consciousness of the emloyees of the center!
• Women as perpetrators in civil conflicts: A case of Sierra Leone
• Waste Management in Svalbard: Towards Sustainable Solutions for the Arctic Region
• Eine bewässerte Moral oder eine moralische Bewässerung? Über die landwirtschaftliche Bewässerungspraxis im wasserknappen Seewinkel - Beispiele aus dem Seewinkel
• Indigenous Art and Storytelling in the Age of Climate Crisis: A Study of Alaska Native Perspectives.
• Being German in the Sunshine State: Identity in Miami
• An ethnographic enquiry into end user experience in zero-emission technologies in Trondheim, Norway
• Working (the) aquifer: A more-than-human political ecology approach to forest-water relations around Vienna's aquifer forest in Lower Austria

• The Caring Enclosure: Negotiations of Care in a Romanian Zoo
• Negotiating Security, Belonging and Care: Multispecies Labor and Bureaucratic Uncertainity in Berlin's SGE Welfare Program
• Living Between States: Romanian Migrant Experiences of Governance in Vienna

Sanda Üllen

• Zwischen Erinnerung und Ausblendung: Die Repräsentation jugoslawischer und türkischer Arbeitsmigrant*innen in österreichischen Geschichtsmuseen und ihr Einfluss auf das kollektive Gedächtnis

• Fitting In: A comparative study between US and Turkish migrant experiences in Vienna, Austria based on migrant feelings of belonging
• The Fabric of Queer Belgrade: An Analysis of Space- and Place-Making
• New military femininity: How to be a woman in Ukrainian military service and how does the experience of military women change the perception of traditional gender's role in Ukrainian society?
• Social Media as a Tool for Community Connection within the Circassian Diaspora in Amman, Jordan
• Performing Together: The Social Life of Climbing at Open Gym (Leuven)
• Socially mediated Kurdish wedding videos and their meaning for younger Kurdish diaspora members
• Perceptions and lived experiences of utilitarian cyclists in Vienna about the city's newly built cycling infrastructure
• Making Ethnical and Trustworthy AI: Ethnographic Study of Developer Practices in AI Factory Austria

• Empowerment of women in Nord sumatra through traditional crafts
• Food as a Facilitator for International Relations in two gastronomic capitals - Vienna and Lyon

• "Participatory art projects as spaces of negotiation in urban space"

• Méxicós versteckter Schatz, Tourismus und seine Grenzen in Holbox, Méxicó
• Gender in a digital world
• Die Bedeutung weiblicher Symbolfiguren im indigenen Feminismus Lateinamerikas
• Der Umgang mit den Tod in Mexiko /  Celebrating death in Mexico
• "Die Sprache ist weiblich" - Identitätskonstruktion zwischen Doppelpunkt, sprachlicher Wahrnehmung und dem Feminismus der heutigen Zeit