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