Finished Master Theses

2023:

 

Bauer, Rolf:

·         Fenners, Marek: Migrant Labour and Social Reproduction Between the Gulf and India

·         Mallari, Aaron Abel: Empires and the pursuit of Opium Policy: Revisiting the Reports of the Opium Commissions in British India (1895) and American Philippines (1905)

·         Martin, Francine Thays: Mercosur-European Union Agreement in the Context of Brazilian Foreign Policy

·         Van den Borre, Maite Armentera B: The Indian Green Revolution: how American expertise contributed to Indian nation-building in the second half of the twentieth century

 

Bunchuay-Peth, Simon Alexander:

·         Novoa Leal, Pedro Felipe: Forced migration from Venezuela to Germany since 2016: the German asylum system, the perception of the Venezuelan applicant/refugee and their agency

 

Edelmayer, Friedrich:

·         Hovakimyan, Syuzanna: The Role of the Armenian Diaspora in the USA in the Recognition Process of the Armenian Genocide

·         Sacchi, Ludovica: Ayahuasca Retreat Centers in Latin America and their Impact on Indigenous Peoples

·         Tykhonenko, Anna: Female Migration in Circumstances of Gender Inequality. A Case Study of Maasai Migrants in Tanzania and Kenya

 

Englert, Birgit:

·         Magnes, Hannah: Decolonizing Tourism in Kenya: A case study combining Afrocentric theories on decolonization with arguments of local experts

 

Fastenrath, Sebastian:

·         Schmidt, Julia Veronika: Sustainable Stitches - the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in the Context of Sri Lanka’s Apparel GVC

Fuchs, Brigitte:

·         Zaleski, Zoe: Intersectional Coloniality: Remapping the Coloniality of Power Through the Lens of Gender-Based Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa

 

Gerstl, Alfred:

·         Wu, Haoyu: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Its Impacts on Southeast Asia

 

Kaller, Martina:

·         Rupprecht, Sabrina Chiara: Balancing Acts: How NGOs navigate tensions arriving from accountability to the BMZ and to partner organizations

 

Kerschhofer-Puhalo, Nadja:

·         Repole, Angela: The digital pandemic Covid-19 and the digital globalisation: a study on their impact on German newspapers through a multidisciplinary perspective and corpus linguistics analysis of anglicisms

 

Kuppe, René:

·         Sanchez Uria, Ari Kim: The territory is defended in the territory: Analysis and contributions of the Indigenous resistance to a road project in the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), Bolivia

 

Povoroznyuk, Olga:

·         Burtseva, Yelyzaveta: Testing the Limits of Self: (Supra)National and Regional Identities Through Kharkiv School of Photography Oeuvre (1965-2013)

 

Reinprecht, Christoph:

·         Golly, Vanessa Julia: Digital Nationalism The Polish Diaspora and Its Use of Twitter in Times of Crises: An Analysis of Social Media Activities in UK and Germany

·         Madsen Dos Santos, Natália: Migration and Development: the German-Africa Development Cooperation on Mobility Processes and its In-fluence on Multi-level Governance

Rüther, Kirsten:

·         Koers, Daniel David Dikus: Defying Political Deities: Christian Nationalism in Post-Colonial Zambia through the Lens of Theocratic Populism

 

Sarr, Amadou-Lamine:

·         Meißner, Conrad Marcelo: Emanzipatorische Poesie: Zwischen Diaspora und Avant-Garde

 

Schiel, Juliane:

·         Cortes Coria, Viridiana: Climate change and global labour: environmental and just transition strategies from a (global) unionist perspective

 

Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne:

·         Hamamoto, Natsuki: The Prospect of Black-Asian Solidarity in the US: Looking at the Attitude of Japanese Americans during the BLM movement and the COVID-19 Pandemic

·         Littell, Garrison Grant: China’s Health Diplomacy 2020-2022: The Cases of India and South Africa

Yüksel-Pecen, Ayşe Seda:

·         Gjana, Rina: Vienna, the Capital of Culture: Constructing the City Image through Culture and Art

 

2022:

 

Angelo, Anais:

·         Wanner, Janne Teresa: Protesting from Home: Women*s Resistance in Contemporary Nigeria

 

Bauer, Rolf:

·         Parihar, Aishwarya: The Crisis Around the Rohingyas in Myanmar: Actors, Narratives and History

 

Dannecker, Petra:

·         Schrade, Raphael Johannes Chaitanya Immanuel: The practicability of universal human rights in the face of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and beyond

·         Strahn, Ian Matthew Paynich: Mobility on Earth and the Seas: Exploring migration and its impact on the religious identities of young Syrians in Vienna

 

Dowling, Emma:

·         Birk, Janosch Eric Rasputin: How are Labor Relations affected by Contemporary Processes of Financialization? A Theoretical Review

 

Echterhölter, Anna Maria:

·         Osterlow, Anna Katharina: Imagining technological futures: Transnational feminist tech and data activism as a counter-dynamic in global processes of digitalisation

 

Edelmayer, Friedrich:

·         Baliqi, Edon: Saudi-Iranian Proxy Wars in the Middle East: Syria, Iraq, and Yemen

·         Chen, Hung-Ling: China’s Rising Influence on Western Balkan Countries under the Belt and Road Initiative

·         Dergay, Alexander: A zachem? Mapping the Socio-Political Attitudes and Belief Systems of ‘Generation Putin’ in Post-Soviet Russia

·         Hamdoun, Rachel Inam: Dances with Indians: Pop Culture, Education and Contemporary Cultural Genocide in North America

·         Michielsen, Sara Catherine T: Postcolonial Hauntings and Cold War Continuities: The Symbolic Representations of Patrice Lumumba

·         Reinold, Maximilian Johannes Axel: CONTESTED NORMS, CONTESTED TERRITORY - IS FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION UNDER THREAT IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA?

·         Weidner, Kristin Miriam: The European Union as a Strategic Actor? An Analysis of the Development of a Common European Union Strategic Culture in the Context of the 2003 European Security Strategy and the 2016 European Union Global Strategy

 

Kaller, Martina:

·         Goodman-Brown, Ross James: Citizenship Deprivation as Colonial Dispossession: The Case of Shamima Begum

·         Hernandez-Marroquin, Joceline Nayelle: Global Perspectives on Food Politics and Policy: Examining the Interplay of the Food Sovereignty and Food and Nutrition Security Discursive Narratives

·         Vandekerckhove, Louise Marie: Mi’kmaw Women and Environmental Justice

·         Worster, Charlotte: In Search of Humanity - Eine kritische Gesellschaftsanalyse hegemonieller Selbst- und Weltverhältnisse im 21. Jahrhundert

 

Komlosy, Andrea:

·         Kikaš, Mario: Moving Pictures Globally: Labor Relations Behind Hollywood Runaway Productions in New Zealand, Croatia, and Morocco

 

Kuppe, René:

·         Metz, Hannah Franziska: The Role and Perception of Indigenous Peoples‘ Organisations Regarding REDD+ Alternatives in the Peruvian Amazon

 

Larios, Borayin:

·         Rehan, Moiz: Bureaucratic Violence Faced by SOGI Asylum Applicants in Austria: The Politics, Procedure, and Consequences of the Asylum System

 

Matthes, Jörg:

·         Davydov, Ruven: Viral Marketing on Social Media and its Utility for Brand Creation: An Analysis of Wendy’s Twitter campaign of 2017 through the Lens of a Memetic Framework

 

Mückler, Hermann:

·         Maurer, Annika Doreen: "Germans in the Cameroons": A Training Requirement Assessment for German expats in development organisations in Cameroon. An intercultural perspective

 

Müller, Patrick:

·         Brcaninovic, Amela: Veto players and the shortcomings of the EU conditionality mechanism; case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

Sarikakis, Katharine:

·         Hannachi, Karina: The use of digital platforms by school teachers for educational purposes during COVID-19 pandemic

 

Schiel, Juliane:

·         Gruszka, Danuta Lidia: Mobility as Identity. Digital nomads in Liquid Modernity

 

Vadrot, Alice:

·         Seitz, Hannes August: Reputational strategies in international climate change politics: an analysis of the Leaders Summit on Climate 2021

 

Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne:

·         Li, Yuhan: Cyberactivism during the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Battle of Ideas

 

Zuckerhut, Patricia:

·         Tatangelo, Claudia: The global feminist strike 2021 in Italy

2021:

 

Angelo, Anais:

·         Zöller, Mara Elena: QUID PRO QUO? Development, security, and migration policies between the EU and Libya

 

Edelmayer, Friedrich:

·         Belmar Erilkin, Valentina Nayerda: La Araucanía bajo fuego: Representation of the Mapuches and the Mapuche Conflict in Chilean Newspapers

·         Karadayi, Mert: The Tale of Two Crises: 2001 and 2008 Economic Crises in Turkey

 

Gaenszle, Martin:

·         Daya, Puja: Yoga as an Instrument for Indian Cultural Diplomacy

 

Göbel, Christian:

·         Lian, Xiuyu: Chinese Nationalist Movements in Cyberspace under Xi’s "New Era": Identity, Ideology, and ICT

 

Grandner, Margarete Maria:

·         van Holthe tot Echten, Agatha Johanna Elisabet: Closing the Gender Financing Gap in Clean Energy: Gender Lens Investing (GLI) Strategies in Entrepreneur Support Organisations (ESOs)

 

Kaller, Martina:

·         Salas Cruz, Genesis: Coding Impunity: A feminicidal violence approach towards feminicidios in Estado de México during 2000s from the perspective of victims' relatives

 

Koll, Johannes:

·         Degruyter, Elias Merlijn: Liberal discourses on fascism, 1918-1940. A discourse analysis of the Flemish liberal association Liberaal Vlaams Verbond, contrasted with germanophone and francophone liberal discourses on fascism

 

Sonderegger, Arno:

·         Jima, Kingsley Celestine: Northern Nigeria’s Protracted Social Deprivation and Violent Extremism: Investigating the Connections of the Almajiri Phenomenon to the Recruitment/ Membership of Dissident Groups in the Post-Colonial States of Kano, Maiduguri and Yola in Northern Nigeria

 

Steidl, Annemarie:

·         Ali, Ilma: Gender Inequality and the Syrian Refugees

 

Wakounig, Marija:

·         Smajic, Adnan: Collective Memory in Post-Conflict Societies: The Role of Commemorative Practices in Constructing National Identities in Bosnia and Herzegovina After 1995

 

2020:

 

Edelmayer, Friedrich:

·         Makay, Melanie Luana: Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization - Middle East as a Comparative Case Study: Conflicts in Syria and Yemen

·         Mayné, Helena Rose A: A Critique of the Tervuren Museum New "Decolonial" Philosophy

·         Oskow, Noah Louis: Remembrance of Lost Empire: Inter-Cultural Belonging and Created Identity on Sakhalin Island

 

Grandner, Margarete Maria:

·         Dorn, Christian: Civil Disobedience as a Means for Human Rights Protection under the Dublin Regulation


Krenceyová, Michaela:

·         Santagati, Arianna: Wege in die entwicklungspolitische Bildungsarbeit in Österreich. Eine Reflexion über die Positionalität junger Engagierter beim Jugend Eine Welt Bildungsteam

 

Lecheler, Sophie:

·         Matthys, Alexandra: Journalism in times of ‘disinfodemic’: The impact of Covid-19 disinformation on the media landscape. A case study in Flanders (Belgium)

 

Schiel, Juliane:

·         Castilho Pinto, André: The "Williams thesis" and the historiographical debate on the relationships between slavery and capitalism: assessment and perspectives

 

Schlembach, Christopher:

·         Widler, Valeria: Understanding democratic resilience as the maintenance of the social contract: A complex systems approach to the emergence of authoritarianism

 

Schmid, Martin:

·         Horstmannshoff, Imke: Women´s Resistance in the Anti-Nuclear Movement of the Wendland Region: The Gorleben Frauen, 1979-84

 

Schönpflug, Karin:

·         Bansagi, Pia Grace: ’This is coal, don’t be afraid’: globalisation and nationalisms on the coal frontier