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Funding body: OeAD, Cooperation Development Research

Researcher: Heide Bruckner (Principal Investigator), in partnership with collaborators at Solomon Islands National University and the University of Papua New Guinea

Duration: 2024-2027

MTC Mangroves is an action-oriented, participatory research project working closely with indigenous Pacific communities in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The goals of the project are to better understand, and support, communities’ management of their mangroves forests to ensure sustainable food livelihoods and indigenous sovereignty in the face of climate change. By unpacking both gendered and cultural dimensions of mangrove forests, the project contributes important social science research to the predominate framing of mangroves as (only) carbon-sequestering ecosystems.

Funded by: Elisabeth-List-Fellowship for Gender Studies (University of Graz)

Head of research: Ulrich Ermann, Anke Strüver

Research team: Heide Bruckner, Sarah Wack

Duration: 2022-2024

This research study aims to better understand the relationship between (social) gender and experience among geographers employed at an Austrian university, especially from the perspective of postdocs and professors. Although gender equality measures have been implemented officially for decades, there are still many gender barriers that prevent female postdoctoral researchers from obtaining permanent positions in research and teaching. This qualitative research aims to better understand which gender barriers persist and identifies the programs, formal and informal networks, and support systems that geographers working at Austrian universities find useful in fostering an inclusive work environment.

The study is funded by the Elisabeth List Fellowship Program of the University of Graz. It is a continuation of previous research conducted in collaboration with the Austrian Geography Association.

Research associate: Heide Bruckner

Duration: 2021-2025

Project homepage: https://falah.unc.nc/en/home

FALAH is a multidisciplinary research project of the European Union's Horizon 2020 program that focuses on family agriculture, nutrition, lifestyle and health of the populations of the South Pacific islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. As part of this project, Heide Bruckner researched the gender-specific harvesting methods of food from mangrove landscapes in the Solomon Islands and investigated their contribution to indigenous food sovereignty.

Value constructions and spatial constructions using the example of the real estate market for residential property

Doctoral candidate: Marc Michael Seebacher

Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann

Brief description of the dissertation project

The dissertation project examines from a social and cultural science perspective the question of how residential real estate is transformed into "valuable" goods, how (economic) values are performatively attributed to dwellings and how, subsequently, real estate markets are constituted and "performed" in local contexts through knowledge systems and concrete valuation practices. From the perspective of second-order observation, analytical attention will be paid to the practice of (economic) valuation of residential real estate both from the point of view of "market experts" (e.g. real estate agents) and from that of individual households, apartment owners or tenants.

It is assumed that economic values (such as markets and the price of a good) are not simply the results of rational calculations in relation to supply and demand or a "black box", but that they are attributable to specifically framed valuation practices embedded in socio-material contexts, which can be investigated in a qualitative and understanding manner from a reconstructive perspective and using social and cultural science methods. This tracing of "valuation practices" appears to be of particular interest due to the specific characteristics of real estate and real estate markets in general (e.g. heterogeneity and immobility of goods, information asymmetries), especially in view of the fact that value articulations in relation to real estate always go hand in hand with spatial attributions and thus with processes of spatial construction (e.g. the value of a "good" location). Through the chosen theoretical-conceptual access perspective, especially through the approach of "performativity" and the associated characterization of values and markets as socially constructed, the dissertation project aims to contribute to an innovative understanding of the "functioning" of real estate markets and to provide alternative perspectives on seemingly given realities and entities of the economy. Furthermore, the project critically analyzes the concept of "value" in real estate economics, as well as in general in relation to "housing" as a necessity of human existence on the one hand and to "housing" as economic goods and as increasingly internationally tradable commodities on the other. Possible connections between economic and socio-cultural as well as emotional and affective values and value concepts in the context of everyday housing practices at the level of individual households will be empirically examined. This is also linked to a general examination of value concepts in economic geography, because the spatiality of the economy is always to be understood as a socially formed expression of (economic) valuation practices, conflicting values and multiple value concepts as applied principles of regionalization.

Shared spaces of working, living and public life using the example of the city of Graz

Funding: Styrian Provincial Government, Department of Science and Research

Funding amount: 92,285 euros

Duration: 31 months: 09/2018 - 03/2021

Project management: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann

PhD student: Malte Höfner, B.Sc. M.Sc.

Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann

Cooperation partners

Science:

• Prof. Dr. Johanna Rolshoven and Assistant Prof. Dr. Judith Laister (Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz)
• Univ.-Assist. Mag. DI. Dr. Manfred Omahna (Institute for Urban and Architectural History
  TU Graz)
• Assoc. prof. DI. Dr. Franziska Hederer (Institute for Spatial Design TU Graz)
• Prof. Dr. Peter Lindner (Institute for Human Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
• Assoc. Prof. Alberto Vanolo, PhD (Dipartimento Culture, Politica e Società of the University of Turin)

Practice:

• Scan: Agency for Market and Social Analysis (Mag. Rainer Rosegger)
• StadtLABOR - Innovations for urban quality of life GmbH (Mag^.a Barbara Hammerl)
• MANAGERIE e.U. & Verein Stadtteilprojekt ANNENViERTEL (Maria Reiner)

Brief description of the dissertation project

Taking into account demographic and economic transformation processes such as immigration, re-urbanization, increasing mobility and the effects of digitalization (sharing economy), the research project explores questions of how urban spaces are (jointly) shared in everyday life. Qualitative case studies in the three everyday areas of working, living and public space look for structures of action that give rise to new spatial configurations through "practicalsharing" on the one hand and simultaneous practices of spatial "separation"(dividing) on the other.

Current state of research

The theoretical and conceptual preparation of the project-related dissertation was the focus of the work in the first year of the project. In addition, initial exploratory field visits took place together with Master's students as part of a course and excursion. The results of this student collaboration were documented through a series of on-site discussions with experts and partners from the field in the form of digital storytelling at https://raumteilen.atavist.com/. An article on coworking spaces in Graz(GeoGraz, issue 67) provides further insights into specific places of sharing through current trends in the creative working world.

The second year of the project focused on empirical fieldwork. Practices and structures of sharing from a public space close to the city center were contrasted with a residential area on the outskirts of the city. Interviews and observations at both locations formed the empirical basis. The focus of the local spatial reference in the city of Graz was, on the one hand, the Puntigam brewery district as an interface between the two everyday areas of housing and public (local) space (own neighborhood). On the other hand, there was a survey in Graz's 'Annenviertel', in which temporary sporting activities and their embedding in the public green space were researched. This investigation was carried out using a self-developed approach of shared survey practice and a dialog-based combination of methods under the keyword "Empiricism(s) of Encounter". With the help of this method, previously little or invisible social interactions in the shared public space became (more) visible. Using the example of the two spatially different locations, urban spatial productions of inclusion and exclusion as well as organized forms of sharing are currently being analysed.

The insights into these "microgeographies" of working, living and public space promise new insights into our spatial configurations of urban societies. The research project aims to help identify different types of practices that contribute to the production of urban spaces and to better understand polarizing spatial phenomena, so that society can focus less on the divisive and more on the unifying aspects of space-sharing practices.

Publications & Collaboration

Together with project partner Rainer Rosegger (SCAN), close collaboration has developed over the past year in the context of the European COST network of the Sharing & Caring action group in the areas of the sharing economy and platform economies at national level. This has resulted in a country report (2019) on the collaborative economy in Austria (2020, in publication), as well as a book chapter on the sharing economy in the tourism industry in Austria (publication: 2021).

Information and inquiries about the project are available atraumteilen(at)uni-graz.atto submit

Rethinking land in the course of the transformation of food supply through new digital technologies

Funding: Styrian Provincial Government, Department of Science and Research

Funding amount: 99.961,- Euro

Duration: 34 months: 01/2019 - 10/2021

Project management: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann

Research assistants: Ernst Michael Preininger, Annalisa Colombino PhD

Contact: ulrich.ermann(at)uni-graz.at

Cooperation partners

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Lukas Meyer (KF Uni Graz, Institute of Philosophy)
• Ass.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Alexander Bauer (BOKU Vienna, Institute of Agricultural Engineering)
• Prof. Dr. Marc Redepenning (University of Bamberg, Institute of Geography)
• Prof. Dr. Roberta Sonnino (Cardiff University, School of Geography and Planning)
• Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Gerald Kelz (AMSD - Advanced Mechatronik System Development KG, practice partner)

Project description

The research project focuses on the question of what role the application of "non-traditional", digital technologies (could) play in the value chain of food production, distribution and consumption in Styria and how this (could) change "rural" structures and forms of current life in the "countryside". The areas of research activity are the project regions Thermen- und Vulkanland, Murtal and Graz Stadt.

The background and theoretical basis are the observations (which have generally been reflected in the literature of human geography research activities for many years) that rural areas are also undergoing major changes in this country - "rurality" and "provinciality" are losing their traditional meanings, the formal contrast between town and country is dissolving. As a result, spaces are emerging that are better described as "rurban" in terms of their spatial semantics and which, it is assumed, could be subject to accelerated rurbanization and/or specification due to the implementation of new technologies in the agricultural and food sector. Another open question is what this would mean for future urban-rural and center-periphery relationships in the area of food supply.

The research project is deliberately designed to be interdisciplinary between human geography, philosophy and technology, so that the research question can be approached using qualitative methods of social research, the analysis of technical and economic developments and the personal reflections of relevant actors on different levels of meaning. Public discussion events are also planned in the respective project regions in order to investigate questions of self-perception and the perception of others, as well as the identity(ies) of future visions in (formerly or increasingly) agriculturally characterized, peripheral areas.

The project is intended to expand the state of knowledge on the topic of a future sustainable food system using new technological tools and to show which paths are open for peripheral, "rural" regions away from desertification or uncontrolled/unrestricted development, as well as for future urban-rural relationships, and to serve a better assessment of the consequences of technology.

Research networking for regional development in Styria

Funding: Province of Styria, Department of Regional Planning and Regional Development

Funding amount: 80,000 euros plus internal funds from the University of Graz

Duration: 54 months: 08/2020 - 01/2025

Project management: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann

Project assistant / PhD student: Mag^.a Sabine Hostniker

Cooperation partners

Province of Styria, Department of Regional Planning and Regional Development:
DI Harald Grießer, Mag. Martin Nagler, Marc M. Seebacher B.A. M.A.

Project content

The project "FoReSt" ("Research Networking for Regional Development in Styria") aims to establish and intensify cooperative relationships between the University of Graz (Institute of Geography and Spatial Research and RCE Graz-Styria) and the Province of Styria (Department of Regional Planning and Regional Development). The aim is to create closer links between research and practice in the field of regional development in Styria and to strengthen the basis for joint projects. Relevant subject areas are, for example, related to Styria:

• Spatial-structural developments and urban-rural relationships in the context of social macro-trends and transformation processes (including with regard to climate change, energy, mobility, etc.)
• Regions as living environments: Regional images and identification between regional awareness and regional chauvinism
• Regional economic cycles, regionality and regionalization (e.g. with regard to consumption patterns, agriculture and nutrition)
• Digitalization, innovation and employment in the (particularly rural) regions
• Regional governance processes, regional cooperation and participation

To this end, a dissertation project will be funded that thematically lies at the intersection between the corresponding academic research focus areas and the practice-related application areas and deals with an exemplary question in one of the aforementioned research areas. In this way, basic knowledge is to be made available to authorities and stakeholders in regional development in Styria and at the same time practical knowledge is to be integrated into university research and teaching. In addition, student theses (in particular for students of the Master's degree program "Sustainable Urban and Regional Development") will be advertised and funded in order to promote a practice- and profession-oriented academic education and to support the scientific foundation of regional development practice with empirical research. Regular workshops and working meetings are also planned in order to discuss current topics in state and regional development, research gaps, methodological issues and funding programs.

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Geographies of production and consumption using the example of fashion markets and brands in Bulgaria

Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Funding amount: 170,000 euros
Duration: 40 months: 2/2010 - 5/2013
Collaborations:

• Prof. Dr. Kristian Bankov, Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
• Prof. Dr. Petăr Stoyanov, Institute of Geography, St. Kliment Ochridski University, Sofia

Processing: At the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig

Project management: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann (from 5/2012: University of Graz)

Research assistant: Christian Geiselmann
Research assistant: Yuliana Lazova
Contact: ulrich.ermann(at)uni-graz.at


Description:
The starting point of the research project was the thesis that the formation of new markets in the wake of the post-socialist transformation and in the context of integration into global value chains is associated with a radical redefinition of economic values, an increasing significance of signs and a reflexivity of the relationships between production and consumption. Production structures and consumer offers are thus influenced both by buyer and seller interests in (western) foreign countries as well as by domestic consumer behavior and efforts to achieve local value creation through the production of signs.The results of the project contribute to a better understanding of current phenomena of "consumer capitalism". The (re-)production of relationships between economy and space, the relationship between material and social commodity value and the significance of signs (especially brands) for identity and value creation processes were examined.Fashion brands, understood as elements of symbolic market communication, served as an empirical example of the mutual anticipation of productive and consumptive practices.

Publications:

• Ermann, Ulrich (2013): Fashioning markets: Brand geographies in Bulgaria. In: Ger Duijzings (ed.): Global Villages. London: Anthem, pp. 173-190. http://www.anthempress.com/global-villages
• Ermann, Ulrich (2013): Performing value(s): Promoting and consuming fashion in postsocialist Bulgaria. Europe-Asia Studies 65 (7) (Special Issue: Actually existing neoliberalisms: How do basic neoliberal concepts shift meaning in the post-socialist world?), pp. 1344-1363. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YW2jzGAS22PWIs7JeBx8/full#.Un6gRhbz9pE
• Ermann, Ulrich (2013): Geographies of marketization and consumption. In: Heiko Schmid & Karsten Gäbler (eds.): Perspektiven sozialwissenschaftlicher Konsumforschung. Stuttgart: Steiner, pp. 173-194.http://www.steiner-verlag.de/programm/fachbuch/geographie/reihen/view/titel/59725.html
• Ermann, Ulrich (2011): Consumer capitalism and brand fetishism: the case of fashion brands in Bulgaria. In: Andy Pike (ed.): Brands and Branding Geographies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 107-124. books.google.de/books?isbn=1849801592
• Ermann, Ulrich (2007c): Magical brands - A fusion of economy and culture in global consumer capitalism? In: Christian Berndt & Robert Pütz (eds.): Kulturelle Geographien. On the examination of place and space after the cultural turn. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 317-347.

Environmental protection through civil society networking and communication in the problem areas of nature conservation, pollutant emissions and waste

Funding: German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)

Funding amount: 98,000 euros

Duration: 03/2011 - 08/2012 (18 months)
Cooperation:

• BlueLink Network, Sofia/Bulgaria (Vera Staevska)
• Bulgarian Biodiversity Foundation (BBF), Sofia/Bulgaria (Petko Tzvetkov)

Processing: At the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig/Germany
Project management: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann (from 5/2012 at the University of Graz)
Research assistants: Yuliana Lazova, Vera Schreiner
Contact: ulrich.ermann(at)uni-graz.at

Description:
In Bulgaria, various non-governmental organizations and citizens' initiatives are committed to environmental and nature conservation goals. The acute threat to natural ecosystems has provoked reactions from civil society groups. So far, however, there has been no coordination between the singular activities of the different groups, and the public awareness and appreciation of these activities has been very low.The aim of the project was to contribute to increasing the effectiveness of activities in the following three problem areas through the exchange of information between and networking of environmental NGOs using new communication platforms:

1. Nature conservation areas (violations of nature conservation guidelines in protected areas)
2. Industrial pollutant emissions (air, water and soil pollution from current or former production facilities)
3. Domestic waste disposal (problems of waste disposal/waste management)

Last but not least, the project focused on "geographies of environmental communication". In other words, using the example of the thematization and visualization of environmental problems, it was investigated how "environment" and "nature" are brought up, made into a problem and turned into a political issue.

Hospitality, Home and Life in the Sharing Economy of Tourism.

A case study of Airbnb in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Doctoral candidate: Maartje Roelofsen
Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann

AbstractThis research intends to contribute to the existing body of critical scholarly work on the sharing economies of tourism. It investigates the spatialities that emerge from the quantification and qualification of bodily performances of hospitality in/through the Airbnb economy. It does so by analyzing some of the key technologies and calculative rationalities that drive the platform such as its review and rating system, as well as drawing on (auto) ethnographic work, which took place in Sofia (Bulgaria) over a period of three months. By using biopolitics and performance theory as analytical frameworks, this thesis seeks to contribute to a critical understanding of the contemporary geographies of the sharing economies of tourism - one that elicits the emergence of new forms of power that aim to order, control and reshape everyday life and living.

Origin, (in)safety and the morality of food using the example of meat products in Styria

Funding: Styrian Provincial Government, Department of Science and Research

Funding amount: 94,000 euros

Duration: 11/2014 - 12/2019

Project management: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann and Annalisa Colombino Ph.D.

Research assistant: Heide Bruckner M.A.

Contact: ulrich.ermann(at)uni-graz.at

Cooperation partners:

• Association "Regional Community Initiative Almenland"
• Association for the promotion of the Styrian volcanic region
• Prof. Lawrence Busch Ph.D. (Michigan State University, Department of Sociology, and Center for the Study of Standards in Society)
• Dr. Mara Miele, Cardiff University, Cardiff School of Planning and Geography
• Dr. Paolo Giaccaria, University of Turin, Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche
• Univ.-Doz. Dr. Gabriele Sorgo, Institute for Educational Science at the University of Graz
• Dr. Sebastian Nessel, Institute of Sociology at the University of Graz (Research Focus 5: Economic Sociology)
• Sandra Karner, Institute for Technology and Science Studies at the Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Graz site

Description:
The project "(Un-)Knowing Food" examines the production and transformation of knowledge in the traceability of food using the example of beef and pork in Styria. Based on the seemingly contradictory observation of a simultaneous uncertainty in consumption and an increase in knowledge production in the form of certification and labeling systems for origin control and quality assurance, knowledge chains between meat production, trade and consumption are analyzed. In particular, the relationship between implicit and explicit knowledge or knowledge anchored in practices and bound to bodies on the one hand and codified knowledge on the other is examined. The empirical research within the project is carried out using qualitative methods of empirical social research (interviews and ethnographic methods). On the basis of the findings, alternatives to knowledge transfer will be discussed together with regional practice partners from Styria and with an international and interdisciplinary team of project partners, and communication concepts will be developed that do justice to the different orders of knowledge between the consumption context and the production context.

• Bruckner, H.K. 2023, Digesting ourselves and others through a critical pedagogy of food and race. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2255547

• Bruckner, H.K. 2023, Getting visceral: body mapping the humanimalian," in Methods in human-animal studies: Engaging with Animals through the Social Sciences, edited by Annalisa Colombino and Heide K. Bruckner, Routledge Press.

• Bruckner, H.K. and Dasaro, S., 2022, Adaptive capacity in emergency food distribution: Pandemic pivots and possibilities for resilient communities in Colorado, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development 11(3),1-20. doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2022.113.004

• Bruckner, H.K., Loberg, L, Schaefburg, C, Teig, E, and Westbrook, M. 2021, Free" food with a side of shame? Combating stigma in emergency food assistance programs in the quest for food justice, Geoforum 123, 99-106. 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.04.021

• Bruckner, H.K., A. Colombino and U. Ermann 2019. Naturecultures and the affective (dis)entanglements of happy meat. Agriculture and Human Values26 (1), 35-47.doi:10.1007/s10460-018-9884-2

• Bruckner, H.K. 2018. Beyond happy meat: Body mapping (dis)connections to animals in alternative food networks. Area 50 (3), 322-330. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12381

• Bruckner, H.K. and M. Kowasch 2018. Moralizing meat consumption: Bringing food and feeling into education for sustainable development. Policy Futures in Education 17(7): https://doi.org/10.1177/1478210318776173

• Colombino, A. and Bruckner, H.K. 2023, "Hidden in plain sight: how (and why) to attend to the animal in human-animal relations" Methods in human-animal studies: Engaging with Animals through the Social Sciences, edited by Annalisa Colombino and Heide K. Bruckner, Routledge Press

• Colombino, A. and Bruckner, H.K. (eds.) 2023, Methods in human-animal studies: Engaging with Animals through the Social Sciences, Routledge Press

• Colombino, A. and Ermann, U. 2022, Eating more than humans - more than human food. Perspectives on non-anthropocentric food geographies. In: Steiner, C.; Rainer, G.; Schröder, V.; Zirkl, F. (eds.). More-than-human geographies. Key concepts, relationships and methodologies. Stuttgart: Steiner, pp. 243-269. dx.doi.org/10.25162/9783515132305-010 [Transfer title to Citavi project using this DOI] .

• Colombino, A. and Ermann, U. 2018, Geographers and geographies on the move.Geographische Zeitschrift 106 (1), 2-3.

• Ermann, U.; Priebs, A. 2022, The region - a phantom? In: U. Ermann, M. Höfner, S. Hostniker, E.M. Preininger and D. Simić (eds.). The region. An exploration of concepts. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 11-26.

• Ermann, U. 2022. The sold region. In: U. Ermann, M. Höfner, S. Hostniker, E.M. Preininger and D. Simić (eds.). The region. An exploration of concepts. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 291-302.

• Ermann, U. 2021. Practices, performativity and materiality - or: "It's the milk that does it". In: Schneider-Sliwa, R.; Braun, B.; Helbrecht, I.; Wehrhahn, R. (eds.). Human geography. Brunswick: Westermann, pp. 330-338.

• Ermann, U. 2021. Geographies of commodification: On the performative production of space and nature in the market(ing) of food. In: Coelsch-Foisner, S.; Herzog, C. (eds.). For Sale! Commodification in contemporary culture. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pp. 29-48.

• Ermann, U.; Strüver, A. 2020 How to Do Good Food? Sustainable nutrition between communication and consumption from the perspective of geographical nutrition research. In: Godemann, J.; Bartelmeß, T. (eds.). Nutrition communication. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 1-18. https://doi. org/10.1007/978-3-658-27315-6_29-1

• Ermann, U.; Pütz, R. 2020 Geographies of consumption: an overview. In: Neiberger, C.; & Hahn, B. (eds.). Geographical retail research. Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum, pp. 63-73. https://doi. org10.1007/978-3-662-59080-5

• Ermann, U.; Pütz, R.; Schröder, F. 2019. Introduction: Geographies of trade and consumption. In: Gebhardt, H.; Glaser, R.; Radtke, U.; Reuber, P.l; Vött, A. (eds.). Geography: Physical geography and human geography. Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum, pp. 820-821.

• Ermann, U.; Pütz, R.; Schröder, F. 2019. geographic consumer research. In: Gebhardt, H.; Glaser, R.; Radtke, U.; Reuber, P.; Vött, A. (eds.). Geography: Physical geography and human geography. Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum, pp. 827-841.

• Ermann, U. 2019. Breweries in Germany: From local to global beer - and back again? Nationalatlas aktuell [24.04.2019] aktuell.nationalatlas.de/Ermann, U., E. Langthaler, M. Penker and M. Schermer 2018. Agro-Food Studies: An Introduction. Vienna: UTB Böhlau.
  http://www.utb-shop.de/agro-food-studies-9605.html

• Gatsinos, N. and Höfner, M. 2023. Exhausting coworking: on the implications of reproductive work for coworkers' subjectivities. In: J. Merkel, D. Pettas and V. Avdikos (eds.). Coworking Spaces. Alternative Topologies and Transformative Potentials. Cham: Springer, 125-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42268-3_9

• Höfner, M. and Gatsinos, N. 2023. Unfinished sympathy: on the limitations of sharing as a work practice in community-led coworking. Cogent Social Sciences, 9(2), 2245236. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2023.2245236

• Höfner, M. 2022. the divided region. In: U. Ermann, M. Höfner, S. Hostniker, E.M. Preininger and D. Simić (eds.). The region. An exploration of concepts. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 153-164. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839460108-014

• Höfner, M. and Rosegger, R. 2022. A Critical Perspective on the Sharing Economy in Tourism Using Examples of the Accomodation Sector in Austria. In: V. Česnuitytė, A. Klimczuk, C. Miguel and G. Avram (eds.). The Sharing Economy in Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 285-303. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86897-0_13

• Höfner, M. and Rosegger, R. 2021. Country Report on the Collaborative Economy in Austria. In: A. Klimczuk, V. Česnuitytė and G. Avram (eds.). The Collaborative Economy in Action: European Perspectives. Limerick: University of Limerick, 35-51. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5574048

• Höfner, M. and Saltiel, R. 2021. Empiricism(s) of encounter: from shared data collection practice to collaborative knowledge production. Forum Qualitative Social Research, 22(3). http://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-22.3.3660

• Hostniker, S. 2022 The played region. In: U. Ermann, M. Höfner, S. Hostniker, E.M. Preininger and D. Simić (eds.). The region. An exploration of concepts. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag,12 9-140. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839460108-012

• Preininger, E. M. 2023. is this the future? Image and imagination in visual discourses on digital farming in Austrian media. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2261132

• Preininger, E. M. and Hafner, R. 2021. I have a garden on the Internet! Searching for the farmer in a remotely controlled farming enterprise. Geographica Helvetica (76) 24. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-249-2021

• Preininger, E.M. and Ermann, U. 2020. Global food production: a system and its design flaws. In: Federal Agency for Civic Education (ed.): At the expense of others. Globalization in pictures. Bonn. Federal Agency for Civic Education. 87-89.

• Colombino, A. and H.K. Bruckner 2023. Methods in Human-Animal Studies: Engaging with Animals through the Social Sciences. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351018623

• Ermann, U., Höfner, M., Hostniker, S., Preininger, E.M. and D. Simić 2022. the region. An exploration of concepts. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839460108

• Ermann, U. and K. Hermanik (eds.). 2018.Branding the Nation, the Place, the Product.London & New York: Routledge.
  https://www.routledge.com/Branding-the-Nation-the-Place-the-Product-1st-Edition/Ermann-Hermanik/p/book/9781138228184

• Alice Senarclens de Grancy / Preininger, Ernst Michael: Im Märzen der Bauer den Laptop anwirft. In: Die Presse. 12.03.2022

• "Regionality as a great deceptive maneuver". Die Presse. Published on 5.2.2022

• Review of the book "Agro-Food Studies" in the Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (Volume 62, Issue 3-4). Published online on 02.03.2018 and in print on 25.09.2018

• "Fundraising campaign for Lombok: Graz University professor supports disaster victims on the vacation island of Lombok." In: "Kleine Zeitung". Published on: 30.08.2018

• "Looking for Italy at FICO Eataly World" - Interview with Annalisa Colombina. 18.05. 2018 .

• "Critical and comprehensive thinking"- Review of the book "Agro-Food Studies" in the magazine "Bäuerliche Zukunft (2/2018)". Published on 16.05.2018

• Martin Kugler on the book "Agro-Food Studies". In: "Die Presse" Published on: 13.01.2018

• Review of the book "Agro-Food Studies" in Ernährungsmedizin.blog. Published online on 28.12.2017

• Science Award for the master thesis "The National Park Gesäuse Partnership - From resistance to cooperation". November 2017