Univ.-Ass. Gertrude Saxinger, Mag. Dr. PD

Portraitfoto von Gertrude Saxinger.

Fotoquelle: Robert Gebauer.

Erreichbarkeit

Neues Institutsgebäude
Universitätsstr. 7/2. Stock
Zi.-Nr.: D207
1010 Wien
T: +43-1-4277-494 24
E-Mail: gertrude.saxinger@univie.ac.at
Website: Forschungsgruppe am Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI)

Sprechstunde

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Lehre

Lehrveranstaltungen u:find

•    Mitglied von CeSCoS – Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity am Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Uni Wien

•    Mitglied von APRI – Austrian Polar Research Institute

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Methodologische Zugänge
•    Qualitative, ethnographische, dekoloniale Forschungsmethoden; Interdiszipinarität inklusive Naturwissenschaften, Gesundheitsforschung, Technologie; Transdisziplinäre Methoden und Kooperationen mit Stakeholdern und Menschen außerhalb der Wissenschaft; co-creation of knowledge; Cartographic Storytelling and populärwissenschaftliches Publizieren

‚Kritische’ Rohstoffe in Zeiten der ‘grünen’ Wende

•   Projekt Beyond Hot Air – Conversations around critical raw materials supply for the ‘green’ transition (MinErAL subproject funded by SSHRC, Canada)
•   Multiskalares staatliches und unternehmerisches Handeln in Landnutzungsprozessen im Bergbau

•   Indigene Selbstbestimmung, ‘grüner Kolonialismus‘ und neokolonialer Extraktivismus,  Konflikte und Protestformen

•  Fly-in/fly-out operations (FIFO), unternehmerische soziale Verantwortung (CSR)

•  Mensch–Umweltbeziehungen, more-than-humans, gebaute Umwelt und Infrastruktur

COVID-19 Pandemie  
•    Solidarität in Zeiten der Pandemie (Projekt SolPan/+); intersektionale Perspektiven auf staatliche, kollektive und individuelle COVID-19 Ideen und Maßnahmen für gesundheitliche Sicherheit; COVID-19 und neue Blicke auf ‚das Globale‘; Future making – Future thinking als Praxis in Lock-down Zeiten

Regionalgebiete
•   Arktis und Sub-Arktis (Kanada, Sápmi, Russland/Sibirien)

•  Österreich und Europa im Kontext globaler Lieferketten und Produktion von ‚kritischen Rohstoffen‘

Networks

•   Co-Koordinatorin der IASSA Working Group Gender in the Arctic

•   Co-Koordinatorin der Regionalgruppe Zirkumpolargebiete und Sibirien der DGSKA – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Preise

•    2007    Dissertationspreis für Migrationsforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften ÖAW

•    2014    Anerkennungspreis für Dissertation, Dr. Maria Schaumayer Stiftung

Projekte (Auswahl)

Beyond Hot Air – Conversations around critical raw materials supply for the ‘green’ transition (2023-2024)

SolPan/SolPan+ Solidarity in Times of a Pandemic – What do people do and why? (2020-ongoing)

CO-CREATE Comprehensive Policy-Brief to the EU Commission. Roadmap to Decolonial Arctic Research (2022-2023). Service contract project funded by EU-PolarNet: video summary

DÁVGI (aiming at just knowledge exchange and co-creation in the Arctic). Funded by the European Environment Initiative (EURENI)
https://www.rifs-potsdam.de/en/blog/2022/11/davgi-bridging-academic-and-indigenous-knowledge

EU PolarNet II (EU Horizon 2020) 2020-2024 (part I: 2015-2020)

LACE – Labour Mobility and Community Participation in the Extractive Industries – Yukon (SSHRC Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada/Yukon Government) 2014-2019

Configurations of Remoteness: Entanglements of Humans and Transportation Infrastructure in the Baykal-Amur Mainline (BAM) Region (FWF Austrian Science Fund) 2015-2020

Lives on the Move: Long-distance commuting in the Petroleum Industry of the Russian Arctic (FWF Austrian Science Fund) 2010-2015

Medien und populärwissenschaftliche Aktivitäten (Auswahl)

ORF Radio Ö1, Punkt eins: „Polarregion im Umbruch – Aktuelles aus der Arktisforschung“

YouTube Channel, Film “Mining on First Nation Land”

Life of BAM (Baikal Amur Mainline), Cartographic Storytelling

This is a guide, written by you... (Bergbauforschung im Yukon Territory)

Uni Wien Podcast Audimax 9: Kulturanthropologie

Publikationen (Auswahl)

Vollständige Publikationsliste auf Researchgate, Google Scholar und ORCID (0000-0003-1428-2689).

Books and booklets

Saxinger, Gertrude (2016) Unterwegs. Mobiles Leben in der Erdgas- und Erdölindustrie in Russlands Arktis /Mobil’nyy obraz zhizni vakhtovykh rabochikh neftegazovoy promyshlennosti na Russkom Kraynem Severe /Lives on the Move – Long-distance Commuting in the Northern Russian Petroleum Industry. With an extended summary in English and Russian. Wien, Weimar, Köln: Böhlau. (Open Access)

Saxinger, Gertrude/Gartler, Susanna (2018) Mobile Workers Guide: coping with FIFO and rotational shift work. Yukon College/ReSDA/First Nation of Nacho Nyäk Dun (Open Access)

Elders of the First Nation of Nacho Nyäk Dun/Susanna Gartler/Joella Hogan/Gertrude Saxinger (2019) Dän Húnáy – Our People’s Story. First Nation of Nacho Nyäk Dun Elders’s Memories and Opinions on Mining. Whitehorse: Yukon College/ReSDA/First Nation of Nacho Nyäk Dun.

Krasnoshtanova, N./ G. Illmeier/ G. Saxinger (2021) Tokma – malen’koe selo vladi ot bol’shikh dorog (Tokma – a small village off the big roads). Irkutsk: Russian Academy of Sciences. (Open Access)

Saxinger, G., Schweitzer, P. Donecker, S. (2016) Arktis und Subarktis. Geschichte, Kultur, Gesellschaft (Arctic and Sub-Arctic. History, Culture, Society). Vienna: new academic press

Taylor, A., Carson, D., Ensign, P., Huskey, L., Rasmussen, R., Saxinger, G. (eds.) (2016) Settlements at the Edge: Remote human settlements in developed nations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing

Artikel

Carpanese, C., Saxinger, G., Wilson, E. (2024) “Clean and future-oriented: Local perceptions of lithium extraction in Bolivia during the presidency of Evo Morales”. Extractive Industries and Society, 19, 101522, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2024.101522 (Open Access)

Fiske, A., Radhuber, I.M. (…) Saxinger, G. et al. (2024) “Don’t Waste the Crisis: The COVID Anthropause as an experiment for rethinking human-environment relations, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(3), 1222-1244. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231221017 (Open Access)

Radhuber, I.M., Amelia Fiske, (...) Gertrude Saxinger et al. (2023) Toward global citizenship? People (de)bordering their lives during COVID-19 in Latin America and Europe, Global Public Health, 18:1, DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2023.2285880 (Open Access)

Zimmermann, B.M., Paul, K.T., (…) Saxinger, G. et al. (2023) The social and socio-political embeddedness of COVID-19 vaccination decision-making: A five-country qualitative interview study from Europe, Vaccine, 41(12),2084-2092, doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.02.012. (Open Access)

Saxinger, G., N. Krasnoshtanova, G. Illmeier (2023) “Stuck in between: Transportation Infrastructure, Corporate Social Responsibility and the State in a small Siberian Oil Town”. In: John Ziker, Vladimir Davydov, Jenanne Ferguson (eds.) Siberian Worlds. London: Routledge. 378-392.

Doering, N. N., (…) Saxinger, G, et al. (2022). Improving the relationships between Indigenous rights holders and researchers in the Arctic: an invitation for change in funding and collaboration. Environmental Research Letters 17(6): 065014. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac72b5 (Open Access)

Zimmermann B.M., Wagenaar H., (…) Saxinger G. et al. (2022) Democratic research: Setting up a research commons for a qualitative, comparative, longitudinal interview study during the COVID-19 pandemic. SSM Qual Res Health, 2, 100158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100158

Saxinger, G., Sancho Reinoso, A., & Wentzel, S. I. (2022). Cartographic storytelling: reflecting on maps through an ethnographic application in Siberia. Fennia - International Journal of Geography. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.110918 (Open Access)

S. Gartler, J. Hogan, G. Saxinger (2022) “The Living Culture House. First Nation of Nacho Nyäk Dun Cultural Revitalization and the Making of A Cultural Centre“. In: Friedrich, D., Hirnsperger, M., Bauer S. (eds). More than Nature. Research on Infrastructure and Settlements in the North. Vienna/Berlin: LIT, 301-324. www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-91218-3 (Open Access)

Saxinger, G., (2022) “The FIFO Social Overlap – Success and Pitfalls of Long-Distance Commuting in the Mining Sector’. In: Southcott, C., F. Abele, D. Natcher, B. Parlee (eds.) Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada’s Arctic Communities. Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 123-145.

Saxinger, G., (2021) “Social Dimensions of Mining in Yukon Territory”. In: Glomsrød, S., Aslaksen, I., Duhaime, G. (eds.) The Economy of the North 2020. Oslo: Arctic Council Secretariat, 116-118. oaarchive.arctic-council.org/handle/11374/2611 (Open Access)

Alexis Sancho-Reinoso, Gertrude Saxinger et al. (2022) Mapping hierarchies of mobility in the Baikal Amur Mainline region: a quantitative account of needs and expectations relating to railroad usage, Polar Geography, DOI: 10.1080/1088937X.2022.2046195  (Open Access)

Saxinger, Gertrude, Natalia Krasnoshtanova, Gertraud Illmeier (2021). "Neglected Transportation Infrastructure: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Russian State in a Small Siberian Oil Town", Sibirica, 20(3), 1-45. (Open Access) www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/sibirica/20/3/sib200302.xml 

Saxinger, Gertrude (2021) Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps, Mobilities, 16:2, 194-211. DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885844 (Open Access)

Saxinger, Gertrude (2020) Multilokalität als Normalisierungspraxis und synchrone Raumintegrationsleistung bei Fernpendelnden in der Erdöl- und Erdgasindustrie in Russlands Arktis (Multilocality as practices of normalisation and synchronic spatial integration among long-distance commuters (FIFO workers) in the Arctic Russian oil and gas industry”. In Multilokale Lebensführung und räumliche Entwicklungen, Danielzyk, R. et al. (eds.) Hannover: ARL Academy for Spatial Research and Planning, 322-328. shop.arl-net.de/media/direct/pdf/fb/fb_013/44_saxinger.pdf (Open Access)

Kuklina, Vera/Saxinger, Gertrude/Povoroznyuk, Olga (2019) Power of Rhythms – Trains and Work along the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in Siberia, Polar Geography, 42(1), 18-33. DOI: 10.1080/1088937X.2018.1564395 (Open Access)

Saxinger, Gertrude and First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun (2018) “Community Based Participatory Research as a Long-Term Process: Reflexions on Becoming Partners in Understanding Social Dimensions of Mining in the Yukon”, The Northern Review, 47, 187–207.  https://thenorthernreview.ca/index.php/nr/article/view/758 (Open Access)

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