Univ.-Prof. Dr. Patrick Sakdapolrak

Head of the Working Group

Professor of Population Geography and Demography
Vice-Director of Doctoral Studies (SPL 45)
Deputy Head of the Research Platform Mobile Cultures and Societies

Contact

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

Tel.: +43-1-4277-48730

Email: patrick.sakdapolrak@univie.ac.at


Hours: Monday, 13:30 to 14:30 (MS Teams)

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27.03.2023

Teaching

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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)

Current research Projects

  • AGRUMIG – "Leaving something behind" – Migration governance and agricultural and rural change in "home" communities: comparative experience from Europe, Asia and Africa
  • HABITABLE – Linking Climate Change, Habitability and Social Tipping Points: Scenarios for Climate Migration
  • Migration Moldova – Mainstreaming the Migration and Climate Change Perspective into the National Adaptation Plan-2 and Agriculture Sectoral Adaptation Plan on Climate Change

Publications

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Sakdapolrak, P., Borderon, M., & Sterly, H. (2023). The limits of migration as adaptation. A conceptual approach towards the role of immobility, disconnectedness and simultaneous exposure in translocal livelihoods systems. Climate and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2180318
Rockenbauch, T., Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2023). Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small-scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand: (Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 36, Issue 4, December 2019). In R. Bezner Kerr, T. L. Pendergrast, B. J. Smith II, & J. Liebert (Eds.), Rethinking Food System Transformation (pp. 35-52). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19115-2
Lemke, L. K-G., Trippl, M., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2023). Regional Economic Resilience Revisited: A capacity-based approach to deliberate system transformations. Paper presented at Global Conference on Economic Geography , Dublin, Ireland.
Pagogna, R., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2023). How migration information campaigns shape local perceptions and discourses of migration in Harar city, Ethiopia. International Migration. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13112
Ayanlade, A., Sergi, C. M., Sakdapolrak, P., Ayanlade, O. S., Carlo, P. D., Babatimehin, O. I., Weldemariam, L. F., & Jegede, M. O. (2022). Climate change engenders a better Early Warning System development across Sub-Saharan Africa: The malaria case. Resources, Environment and Sustainability, 10, [100080]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100080
Ayanlade, A., Oluwaranti, A., Ayanlade , O. S., Borderon, M., Sterly, H., Sakdapolrak, P., Jegede, M. O., Weldemariam, L. F., & Ayinde, A. F. O. (2022). Extreme climate events in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for improving agricultural technology transfer to enhance adaptive capacity. Climate Services, 27, [100311]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100311
Sakdapolrak, P., Pagogna, R., & Diniega, R. (2022). Covid-19, Migration und Translokalität. Geographische Rundschau (GR), 74(5), 14-17.
Butsch, C., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2022). Gesundheit und Krankheit im Entwicklungskontext. In Geographien der Gesundheit: Beiträge zum 50-jährigen Bestehen des Arbeitskreises Medizinische Geographie und Geographische Gesundheitsforschung in der DGfG (Vol. 6, pp. 85-98). Geographische Gesundheitsforschung
Weldemariam, L. F., Sakdapolrak, P., & Ayanlade, A. (2022). The impact of migration on food security in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: The role of migration patterns and remittances. Erdkunde: Archiv für wissenschaftliche Geographie, 76(4), 271-288. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2022.04.03
Sakdapolrak, P., Stange, G., & Sterly, H. (2021). Bevölkerungsdynamiken im Kontext des globalen Umweltwandels. In B. Braun, I. Helbrecht, R. Schneider-Sliwa, & R. Wehrhahn (Eds.), Humangeographie (pp. 149-158). Westermann. Compass: das geographische Seminar
Sakdapolrak, P., & Borderon, M. (2021). Vulnerabilität und Gesundheit. In Das Geographische Seminar - Humangeographie (pp. 110-120). Westermann.
Durand-Delacre, D., Bettini, G., Nash, S. L., Sterly, H., Gioli, G., Hut, E., Boas, I., Farbotko, C., Sakdapolrak, P., de Bruijn, M., Furlong, B. T., van der Geest, K., Lietaer, S., & Hulme, M. (2021). Climate Migration is About People, not Numbers. In S. Böhm, & S. Sullivan (Eds.), Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis (pp. 63-81). Open Book Publishers. https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0265.06.pdf
Pagogna, R., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2021). Disciplining migration aspirations through migration‐information campaigns: A systematic review of the literature. Geography Compass, 15(7), [12585]. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12585
Sakdapolrak, P., & Sterly, H. (2020). Building Climate Resilience through Migration in Thailand. Migration Information Source, Special Issue. https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/building-climate-resilience-through-migration-thailand
Peth, S. A., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). When the origin becomes the destination: Lost remittances and social resilience of return labour migrants in Thailand. Area, 52(3), 547-557. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12598
Peth, S. A., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). Resilient family meshwork. Thai–German migrations, translocal ties, and their impact on social resilience. Geoforum, 114, 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.019
Groth, J., Ide, T., Sakdapolrak, P., Kassa, E., & Hermans, K. (2020). Deciphering interwoven drivers of environment-related migration – A multisite case study from the Ethiopian highlands. Global Environmental Change, 63, [102094]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102094
Porst, L., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural–urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand. Population, Space and Place, 26(4), [e2314]. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2314
Ober, K., & Sakdapolrak, P. (2020). 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. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12309
Stange, G. (Editorial Journalist), Sterly, H. (Editorial Journalist), Sakdapolrak, P. (Editorial Journalist), Borderon, M. (Editorial Journalist), Schraven, B. (Editorial Journalist), Serraglio, D. A. (Author), & Aleksandrova, M. (Author). (2020). Impeded migration as adaptation: COVID-19 and its implications for translocal strategies of environmental risk management. Web publication https://environmentalmigration.iom.int/blogs/impeded-migration-adaptation-covid-19-and-its-implications-translocal-strategies-environmental
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