Translocal Resilience

Social practices of vulnerable populations at risk | Interplay between risk exposure and capacities to cope, adapt and transform | Role of translocal connectedness and embeddedness in vulnerability and resilience

Selected Publications

  • Groth, J., Ide, T., Sakdapolrak, P., Kassa, E., and Hermans, K. (2020): Deciphering interwoven drivers of environment-related migration - A multisite case study from the Ethiopian highlands. In: Global Environmental Change, 63, 102094, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102094
  • Peth, Simon A. and Sakdapolrak, P. (2020): Resilient family meshwork. Thai-German migrations, translocal ties, and their impact on social resilience. In: Geoforum, 114, 19-29, doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.019 
  • Porst, L. and Sakdapolrak, P. (2020): Gendered translocal connectedness: Rural-urban migration, remittances, and social resilience in Thailand. In: Population, Space and Place, e2324, https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2324
  • Ober, K. and Sakdapolrak, P. (2019): Whose climate change adaptation "barriers"? Exploring the coloniality of climate change adaptation policy assemblages in Thailand und beyond. In: Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 41 (1), 86-104 - https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12309
  • Rockenbauch, T., Sakdapolrak, P. and Sterly, H. (2019): Beyond the local - Exploring the socio-spatial patterns of translocal network capital and its role in household resilience in Northeast Thailand. In: Geoforum, Available online 28 October 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.09.009.
  • Rockenbauch, T., Sakdapolrak, P. and Sterly, H. (2019): Do translocal networks matter for agricultural innovation? A case study on advice sharing in small-scale farming communities in Northeast Thailand. In: Agriculture and Human Values, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09935-0.
  • Porst, L. and Sakdapolrak, P. (2018): Advancing adaptation or producing precarity? The role of rural-urban migration and translocal embeddedness in navigating household resilience in Thailand. In: Geoforum, 97 (2018), 35-45, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.10.011.
  • Peth, S., Sterly, H., and Sakdapolrak, P. (2018): Between the village and the global city: the production and decay of transloval spaces of Thai migrant workers in Singapore. In: Mobilities, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2018.1449785.
  • Porst, L. and Sakdapolrak, P. (2017): How scale matters in translocality: Uses and potentials of scale in translocal research. In: Erdkunde, 71 (2), 111-126.
  • Rockenbauch, T. and Sakdapolrak, P. (2017): Social networks and the resilience of rural communities in the Global South: a critical review and conceptual reflections. In: Ecology and Society, 22 (1):10, https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09009-220110
  • Etzold, B. and Sakdapolrak, P. (2016): Socio-spatialities of vulnerability: towards a polymorphic perspective in vulnerability research. In: Die Erde, 147 (4), 53-70.
  • Sterly, H., Ober, K., and Sakdapolrak, P. (2016): Migration for Human Security? The Contribution of Translocality to Social Resilience. In: The Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs, 3 (1), 57-66.
  • Sakdapolrak, P., Naruchaikusol, S., Ober, K., Peth, S., Porst, L., Rockenbauch, T., and Tolo, V. (2016): Migration in a changing climate. Towards a translocal social resilience approach. In: Die Erde, 147 (2), 81-94.