Tabea Bork-Hüffer

• Professor in Human Geography
• Professor (Full) at University of Innsbruck

This article posits that analyses of (cyber)bullying among digitally connected young people need to explore the interdependences, intersections and cON/FFlation of bullying in ONline and OFFline spaces. It combines digital geographers’ works on relationalities between digital and offline spaces with studies on children’s and young people’s geograph...

In this article, I shed light on the role of digital media and friendships in migrants’ inclusion and exclusion. Connecting the empirical findings of a qualitative, non-media centric, multi-method study to existing research in digital migration studies, digital media and friendship as well as the literature on inclusion and exclusion, I propose the...

The objective of this article is to outline the emerging field of the “digital geographies of mundane violence”, which is characterised by a critical and reflective engagement with the spatialities and dynamic and non-linear temporalities of mediated violence unfolding in entangled online and offline spaces. Going beyond a conventional review of ex...

Expectations regarding augmented realities (AR) produce a range of anticipatory imaginations, ranging from hyperbolic visions to fears of entangled risks, negative effects and dystopian futures. On the one hand, assessing visions of emerging technologies brings to the fore the political economy of research and development of such technologies. On t...

Researching people in their chaotic and complex everyday lives is challenging for researchers at any time but especially during the application of social distancing measures. In this article, we make the case for the methodical potential of mobile messengers such as WhatsApp for qualitative mobile in situ research. We exemplify the productive use o...

People with disabilities face heightened vulnerability during disasters, yet they remain underrepresented in risk management planning and response. This brief communication highlights findings from a pilot study in Tyrol, Austria, which assessed flood exposure and disaster preparedness in facilities serving people with disabilities. Spatial analysi...

This second of three review articles on the uneven geographies of COVID‐19 examines geographical research on (1) spatial patterns of the pandemic's unfolding and (2) its uneven economic geographies, considering both its direct and indirect impacts—for example, those resulting from related preventive measures. In line with this article series, it (3...

This chapter provides a starting point for those who want to research the implications of the entanglements of mobile technologies and media with everyday lives for gender and (im)mobilities. We denote techniques that simultaneously aim at analyzing these entanglements while also applying technologies and media as (mobile) tools of research as ‘mob...

Which biosensing technologies are geographers using in their research, and what exactly do they measure? What are the theoretical origins of geographic interests in biosensing? This article provides an overview of the variety of biosensors applied in biosensing research, tracks the theoretical debates and roots of geographic engagement with biosens...

Bericht & Programmbroschüre zur 8. Jahrestagung der Migrationsforschung in Österreich. Veranstaltungszeitraum: 18.-20. September 2024. Die 8. Jahrestagung stand unter dem Motto „Globale Ungleichheiten, (Im)Mobilitäten und Migrationsgesellschaften: Postmigrantische Perspektiven“.

Poster der 8. Jahrestagung zur Migrationsforschung in Österreich, Titel der Jahrestagung: Globale Ungleichheiten, (Im)Mobilitäten und Migrationsgesellschaften: Postmigrantische Perspektiven, Veranstaltungszeitraum: 18.-20. September 2024. Aus einer postmigrantischen Perspektive ist Migrationsforschung eine übergreifende Auseinandersetzung mit d...

Research and policy during the Covid‐19 pandemic often dovetailed with an established interest in how nearby urban nature spaces can encourage human well‐being. Yet, to define the focus upfront in this way is to overlook the many ways in which different groups may draw on experiences in diverse natural environments to get through challenging times....

„Globale Ungleichheiten, (Im)Mobilitäten und Migrationsgesellschaften: Postmigrantische Perspektiven“, Veranstaltungszeitraum: 18.-20. September 2024, Veranstaltungsort: Ágnes-Heller-Haus, Universität Innsbruck, Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck, Einladung: Migrationsforschung bewegt und bildet … Postmigrantische Perspektiven signalisieren eine neue,...

Building upon a review of geographic research agendas and concepts related to the uneven geographies of COVID‐19, this first of three articles debates the benefits of geographic analyses to the syndemic approach and, vice versa, of a syndemics perspective to geographic analyses. The syndemics perspective was proposed by critical medical anthropolog...

Public spaces are central to social interactions and cohesion, overall urban life, and therewith sustainable urban development. They can play key roles in increasing social interactions and women’s empowerment. The literature lacks empirical research on the state of women’s use of public spaces and these spaces’ effects on women’s social interactio...

Call for Papers zur 8. Jahrestagung zur Migrationsforschung in Österreich Titel der Jahrestagung: Globale Ungleichheiten, (Im)Mobilitäten und Migrationsgesellschaften: Postmigrantische Perspektiven Veranstaltungszeitraum: 18.-20. September 2024, Universität Innsbruck Einreichungen von Panels und Papers bis 15. Januar 2024 – Call for Papers Bitt...

Aktuell stehen viele Formen und Praktiken von Digitalisierung nebeneinander und finden in der Stadt statt. Dort wird Digitalisierung nicht nur über Smart-City-Stadtentwicklungsszenarien und urbane Plattformökonomien vorangetrieben. Sie wird vor allem durch die vielfältigen, alltäglichen technosozialen Praktiken der Menschen transportiert und durch...

Cyberbullying has become an ever-pressing topic for young people in a time of ubiquitous media. Some of the existing, mostly quantitative studies reveal that (cyber-)bullying is gendered and that female and genderqueer young people are bullied more often and differently than males. However, there is a lack of qualitative studies that look into the...

Synonyms Urban health Definition Megaurban ▶ health in countries of the Global South is a field of research concerned with: (1) the specific megaurban environments (sociocultural, socioeconomic, political, and ecological) affecting human physical, mental, and ▶ social health; (2) the characteristics of the health care system and health care provisi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly changed educational and qualification experiences among young people. When the pandemic spread in 2020, schools worldwide were required to switch to remote learning. Through a qualitative multi-method, partly mobile, in-situ research approach, we accompanied pupils in the final year of their secondary education...

In this article, I shed light on the role of digital media and friendships in migrants' inclusion and exclusion. Connecting the empirical findings of a qualitative, non-media centric, multi-method study in Singapore to existing research in digital migration studies, digital media and friendship, and the literature on inclusion and exclusion, I prop...

Social contacts and social support represent resources that contribute to resilience. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated measures, including contact restrictions, posed challenges for young adults’ social networks, in particular for their friendships. Employing a mixed-method approach, we investigated the pandemic’s effects on friend...

Digitale Technologien haben in den letzten Jahren immer mehr an Bedeutung in der Geographie gewonnen und die analytischen Potentiale einer integrativen Perspektive auf sozio-materiell-technologische Raumproduktionen lassen sich nicht von der Hand weisen. Die fortlaufende Verschränkung von Daten, Codes und Algorithmen mit Gesellschaft und Umwelt for...

Numerous measures were implemented to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Adhering to these measures as well as getting vaccinated is associated with subjective costs and benefits. Since young people like university students largely feel less vulnerable to the virus, other costs and benefits than health might be more decisive for them. This article comb...

Mobile Methoden vereinen äußerst vielfältige wissenschaftliche Praktiken. Der Beitrag verortet die Entwicklung mobiler Methoden im Kontext metatheoretischer Perspektiven und diskutiert das Potenzial dieser Methoden für die Erforschung der Produktion und die Veränderungen von Geographien durch das Digitale, wobei ein Fokus auf den Einsatz mobiler te...

Purpose This paper aims to discuss research ethics in mixed-methods research (MMR) and MMR development with a focus on ethical challenges that stem from working with technical instruments such as mobile eye-trackers. Design/methodology/approach The case of an interdisciplinary mixed-methods development study that aimed at researching the impacts o...

The COVID-19 pandemic caught societies worldwide unprepared in 2020. In Austria, after a lockdown was decreed on 16 March 2020, educational institutions had to switch to a patched-up distance learning approach, which has been largely maintained to date. This article delivers empirical insights from an interdisciplinary mixed-methods research study...

New geospatial technologies and ubiquitous sensing allow new insights into people’s spatial practices and experiences of public spaces. These tools offer new data streams for analysis and interpretation of social phenomena. Mobile augmented reality tools such as smartphones and wearables merge the experience of entangled online and offline spaces i...

Megaprojekte und die Neue Konnektivität transformieren Regionen und Gesellschaften Asiens tiefgreifend. Mit Megaprojekten wollen Regierungen Innovationskraft, Handlungsstärke und Gestaltungswillen im globalen Wettbewerb oder geopolitischen Führungsanspruch demonstrieren. Unter dem Leitnarrativ der chinesischen "Belt-and-Road-Initiative" sowie durch...

The Covid-19 pandemic temporarily, yet significantly, reshuffled the position, functions and (mediated) constructions of cities and urban places. The national lockdown, implemented by Austria on 16 March 2020, turned cities overnight from centres of hybrid cultural, economic, social, political life and power to places where urban life(styles) were...

In the past 15 years, influential concepts from geography, social, cultural and communication studies have been proposed that conceptualize (everyday) space in the digital age – such as the concepts of 'code/space', 'datafied space', 'atmospheres' and 'hybrid spaces'. These deliver important contributions to theorizing the active role of data, code...

AoIR and the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES) share common interests in critical reflection on the ethical and social dimensions of the internet and internet-facilitated communication, and have begun a collaboration aimed at collecting ethically-focused AoIR conference submissions for presentation and critique at...

There is an urgent need for the currently mostly disparate and quantitative research on traditional or cyberbullying, to not only take note of each other, but also to analyse the interdependences, intersections and conflation of bullying in digital and offline spaces in a more comprehensive manner. More recent conceptualisations of ‘space’ offer va...

p>For the last decade there has been a lively debate on urban arrival spaces. Saunders’ (2011) widely received book Arrival Cities can be seen as catalyst of this debate. Taking a hitherto largely unexplored comparative approach, based on two empirical research studies on migrant workers and highly-skilled migrants in Singapore, this study debates...

Eine herausragende Rolle in der Urbanisierung Asiens nehmen Megastädte ein. In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten wurden im Zuge massiver Urbanisierungsprozesse in Asien zahlreiche neue Stadtteile, teils sogar neue Städte und Hauptstädte errichtet; mehrere Staaten erwägen aktuell den Bau neuer Hauptstädte. Derartige Großvorhaben entstanden oft im Kontext...

Die weltweiten, zunehmend globalisierten sozio-ökonomischen Transformationsprozesse werden wesentlich von großen, bedeutenden Metropolen und Metropolregionen aus gesteuert. In ihnen formieren sich politische, kulturelle, wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Veränderungen und gehen tiefgreifende Impulse für die weltweiten Entwicklungen, einschließl...

Internal migrations-a global overview Considering the recent focus on immigration and refugees in Europe, mobilities within countries, which in quantitative terms are much more substantial and qualitatively high-ly diverse, receive considerably less academic and public attention. The article introduces recent endeavours and challenges for measur-in...

City models, new capitals and cities of the future in Asia Many recent newly planned cities in Asia follow models such as the ‘smart city’ or the ‘eco city’. These developments are driven by rapid urbanisation processes and the urge for postcolonial modernisation, national identity building or economic prosperity. While the replication of successf...

Many recent, newly planned cities in Asia follow models such as the 'smart city' or the 'eco city'. These developments are driven by rapid urbanisation processes and the urge for post-colonial modernisation, national identity building or economic prosperity. While the replication of successful and sustainable city models can be an important corners...

This article explores the effects of people's digital coexistence on the construction of difference and feelings of aversion to or recognition of “others”. It seeks to make a theoretical contribution to works on the geographies of difference and encounter, Internet or digital geography, as well as on migration and digital media, by highlighting the...

In 2014 Singapore announced its “Smart Nation” vision, which shifts the focus of previous ICT campaigns from hard to five soft domains: mobility, living and environment, health, public services and economic productivity. Promises to improve urban quality of life compete with the struggle for a leading position in the global city system and rankings...

Research on highly skilled migrants, transnational elites, and expatriates has often portrayed these groups as displaying an exceptional readiness for mobility, moving through a frictionless world, and belonging to an elite or privileged class in their host countries. Also, it has mostly focused on the migration of professionals from the West to lo...

This special section assembles perspectives on mobilities, migration and new media that emphasise mobile subjects’ multifarious involvements in overlapping digital spheres, which relate them socially and emotionally to both their home and destination countries. In this introduction, we identify two key themes that connect articles in this collectio...

This article examines the differences that digital media (Internet and mobile communications) and mobility create for sense of place. Based on in-depth interviews with 30 German professionals in Singapore, it analyses digital media choices and use during the relocation and settlement process in the destination of migration and the effect of these p...

Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to ci...

This paper investigates how China's heterogeneous African population contributes to shaping new types of social spaces in Chinese cities. We analyse how their different types of collective (primary and corporate) agency work in the creation of transient spaces, i.e., translocal and transforming spaces in Guangzhou and Foshan, China. A mixed-methods...

Taking the examples of Chinese rural-to-urban migrant and African migrant businesspeople in Guangzhou, this article inquires into the commonalities and differences in the health status and healthcare- seeking practices of both groups. While both populations of migrants are diverse and heterogeneous, there are many commonalities with regard to the c...

One of the unintended effects of China's health care reforms is the emergence of unregistered practitioners. We discuss reasons for their development and their role in the urban health care provision system under consideration of general developments in health care provision and health governance – thereby drawing scientific attention to a by far u...

Several substantial changes and amendments to the migration law of the People's Republic of China (PRC) have been introduced during the late Hu-Wen and early Xi-Li eras. The major objective of this article is to discuss whether the new provisions will generally change non-Chinese foreigners' livelihoods and opportunities for working and residing in...

Drawing on examples from Pune and Guangzhou the article illustrates challenges for human health in megaurban agglomerations. The article starts with a brief history of urban health, identifies challenges for human health in an urbanized world especially in megacities and then describes the specific problems in the two case study areas. In the concl...

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The migration of African traders to Guangzhou, located in southeastern China, started in the 1990s and has ever since been increasing. During the last years, the neighbouring city of Foshan has become a second centre of African migration. While a growing number of migrants have been moving from Guangzhou to Foshan, an increased direct migration to...

Link to table of contents and summary: http://www.nomos-shop.de/_assets/downloads/9783832971618_lese01.pdf Obwohl internationale Migration vor allem ein Phänomen der Migration in Städte ist, liegen bisher kaum Untersuchungen zur Verknüpfung von Migration und Stadtentwicklung vor. Der vorliegende Sammelband untersucht zwei Schwerpunkte in diesem Sc...

The article at hand aims at contributing to a deeper understanding of problems in China’s urban health system govvernance by comparing levels of influence and the roles of different stakeholder groups – government bodies, public, private and illegal health care providers, patients and their social networks, paying institutions, social organizations...

The article at hand aims at contributing to a deeper understanding of problems in China’s urban health system governance by comparing levels of influence and the roles of different stakeholder groups – government bodies, public, private and illegal health care providers, patients and their social networks, paying institutions, social organizations,...

China’s villages-in-the-city are a typical form of marginal settlement that mushroomed in Chinese cities in the course of booming economic development, rapid in-migration and urban expansion processes after economic opening. Based on fieldwork in Guangzhou, the central aims of this contribution are firstly to analyze the exposure of the rural-urban...

The article at hand aims at contributing to a deeper understanding of problems in China’s urban health system governance by comparing levels of influence and the roles of different stakeholder groups – government bodies, public, private and illegal health care providers, patients and their social networks, paying institutions, social organizations,...

Introduction of the market, privatization and decentralization have been the dominant corner stones throughout the first two decades of China’s reform line after the introduction of the open door policy in 1978. Many China researchers (e.g. Wang 2008; Wu 2008) thereby judge, that China’s development path was not merely a transition from planned eco...

One of the unintended effects of China's health care reforms is the emergence of unregistered practitioners. We discuss reasons for their development and their role in the urban health care provision system under consideration of general developments in health care provision and health governance – thereby drawing scientific attention to a by far u...

Im aktuell weltweit mit hoher Dynamik stattfindenden Urbanisierungsprozess gewinnen Megastädte immer mehr an Bedeutung als Knotenpunkte von Globalisierungsprozessen und Steuerungszentralen einer zunehmend von Städten dominierten Welt. War Verstädterung bis zum Zweiten Weltkrieg vor allem ein Phänomen der entwickelten Staaten, so setzte seither, bed...