Patrick Sakdapolrak

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak

Research Group Leader

Department of Geography and Regional Research
Universitätsstraße 7/5
1010 Vienna, Austria

Hours: Tuesday, 09:30 to 10:30 – please register under population.geographie@univie.ac.at (not during the semester breaks)

Tel.: +43-1-4277-48730

E-Mail: patrick.sakdapolrak@univie.ac.at

Biography

My research field is at the interface of population dynamics, environmental change and development processes, with a focus on the topics of migration and displacement as well as health and disease. The central theme of my research is the question of how vulnerable groups live with risk. My Ph.D. thesis is based on field research in slum settlements in India, where the inhabitants have significant higher mortality and morbidity rates than the rest of the urban population. I have investigated how these poor urban groups cope with and adapt to environmental and social stresses. My current research on migration-environment relationships in Kenya and Thailand addresses the question how migration alters the way people at places of origin deal with the environment and climate change. I have the aim to pursue sound theoretical and empirical research which is relevant for wider society. I have studied Geography and Development Research in Heidelberg and Wollongong, Australia, and received my doctorate degree at Bonn University.

Research interests

Conceptual: vulnerability, resilience, livelihoods, translocality, Bourdieu's Practice-Theory

Thematic: human-environment-relations, migration and displacement, health and disease

Regional: South Asia (India), South-East Asia (Thailand), East Africa (Kenia)

Publications

Porst, L., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural–urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand. Population, Space and Place, e2314. doi.org/10.1002/psp.2314

Sakdapolrak, P., Stange, G., & Sterly, H. (Accepted/In press). Bevölkerungsdynamiken im Kontext des globalen Umweltwandels. In B. Braun, I. Helbrecht, R. Schneider-Sliwa, & R. Wehrhahn (Eds.), Humangeographie Westermann. Das Geographische Seminar

Stange, G., Sakdapolrak, P., Sasiwongsaroj, K., & Kourek, M. (2019). Forced Migration in Southeast Asia: A Brief Overview of Current Research. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 12(2), 249 - 265. doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0024

Ober, K., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2019). Whose climate change adaptation ‘barriers’? Exploring the coloniality of climate change adaptation policy assemblages in Thailand and beyond. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 41(1), 86-104. doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12309

Boas, I., Farbotko, C., Adams, H., Sterly, H., Bush, S., Van der Geest, K., Wiegel, H., Ashraf, H., Baldwin, A., Bettini, G., Blondin, S., de Bruijn, M., Durand-Delacre, D., Fröhlich, C., Gioli, G., Guaita, L., Hut, E., Jarawura, F. X., Lamers, M., ... Hulme, M. (2019). Climate migration myths. Nature Climate Change, 9(12), 901-903. doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0633-3

Peth, S. A., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2019). When the origin becomes the destination: Lost remittances and social resilience of return labour migrants in Thailand. Area, 51(4). doi.org/10.1111/area.12598

Sakdapolrak, P. (2019, Jan 21). Migration im Kontext des Klimawandels – Indikator für Verwundbarkeit oder Resilienz?

Sterly, H., Etzold, B., Wirkus, L., Sakdapolrak, P., Schewe, J., Schleussner, C-F., & Hennig, B. (2019). AROMA_CoDa: Assessing Refugees’ Onward Mobility through the Analysis of Communication Data. Paper presented at Data for Refugees Challange, Istanbul, Turkey.

Rockenbauch, T., Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2019). Beyond the local – Exploring the socio-spatial patterns of translocal network capital and its role in household resilience in Northeast Thailand. Geoforum, 107(December 2019), 154-167.

Rockenbauch, T., Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2019). Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small‑scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand. Agriculture and Human Values.

Borderon, M., Sakdapolrak, P., Muttarak, R., Kebede, E., Pagogna, R., & Sporer, E. (2019). Migration influenced by environmental change in Africa: A systematic review of empirical evidence. Demographic Research. doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.41.18

Stange, G., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2018). Forced Migration in Southeast Asia. ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 11(2), 161-164. doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0004

Borderon, M., Sakdapolrak, P., Muttarak, R., Kebede, E., Pagogna, R., & Sporer, E. (2018). A systematic review of empirical evidence on migration influenced by environmental change in Africa.

Porst, L., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2018). Advancing adaptation or producing precarity? The role of rural-urban migration and translocal embeddedness in navigating household resilience in Thailand. Geoforum, 97, 35-45. doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.10.011

Sakdapolrak, P., Peth, S., & Sterly, H. (2018). Between the village and the global city: the production and decay of translocal spaces of Thai migrant workers in Singapore. Mobilities.

Ober, K., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2017). How do social practices shape policy? Analysing the field of "migration as adaptation" with Bourdieu's "Theory of Practice". The Geographical Journal, 183(4), 359-369.

Porst, L., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2017). How scale matters in translocality: Uses and potentials of scale in translocal research. Erdkunde: Archiv für wissenschaftliche Geographie, 71(2), 111-126. doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2017.02.02