Univ.-Kulturw. Dr. Gunnar Stange
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Univ.-Kulturw. Dr. Gunnar Stange
University Assitant (post doc)
Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstraße 7/5
1010 Vienna
Hours: Tuesday, 11:00–13:00 Uhr – please register gunnar.stange@univie.ac.at (not during the semester breaks)
Tel.: +43-1-4277-48732
Email: gunnar.stange@univie.ac.at
Biography
My fields of work and interest lie in the areas of peace and conflict research as well as development research. In particular, I am interested in the dynamics that transform armed conflicts into procedural conflicts and the processes by which competing groups of actors organise access to resources, which is often contentious. I am currently designing a research project in insular Southeast Asia that looks at the effects of internal refugee movements on local use of and access to resources in a comparative regional perspective. I am pursuing a qualitative, actor-centred research approach that methodologically follows participant observation during extended field research visits. Equally, it is important for me to conduct socially relevant research and make its findings accessible to both the actors I research and the non-university public. I studied languages, economics and cultural area studies with a focus on Southeast Asia at the University of Passau and completed my doctorate at the Institute of Ethnology at Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Research interests
Conceptual: anthropological conflict theory, development theories
Thematic: peace and conflict studies, flight and displacement, identity politics
Regional: insular Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia
Publications
2018
Bélanger, D. (Author), & Stange, G. (Interviewee). (2018). Témoins de l'exil: Voyage sur le chemin emprunté par des personnes migrantes à travers les Balkans. Multimedia output
Stange, G., & Missbach, A. (2018). The Aceh Peace Process: Wheeling and Dealing behind Closed Doors. In U. Fionna, S. D. Negara, & D. Simandjuntak (Eds.), Aspirations with Limitations: Indonesia's Foreign Affairs under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (pp. 231-254). ISEAS Publishing.
2017
Hoffmann, J., & Stange, G. (2017). Religion wird politisiert: Gunnar Stange, Konfliktforscher, im Gespräch über den politischen Islam in Indonesien. Jungle World. Die Linke Wochenzeitung, (2017/30).
Stange, G. (2017). Book review: Aspinall, E. & Sukmajati, M. (2016). Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia. Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 10(1), 125-128. doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-2017.1-11
Stange, G. (2017). Das Gesetz über die Regierungsführung Acehs in der politischen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Debatte. In Peacebuilding in Aceh. Zwischen Scharia und Tsunami (pp. 127-141). regiospectra.