Monika Palmberger

Personal Website: https://www.monikapalmberger.eu

Research Areas

(Forced) Migration, (im)mobility, and citizenship; Gender and generation; (Digital) activism; Care, ageing and transnational care; Memory and politics of history; Post-socialist and conflict studies; Qualitative, digital and participatory methods

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Books

• Gendered Geographies of Belonging: Homemaking and Late Life Choices Among Labour Migrants in Austria (in preparation for submission to Palgrave Macmillan). 
• Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration (with Azra Hromadzic), Oxford and Brooklyn, NY: Berghahn, 2018.
  
  • Review by Vera Radeva Hadjiev in Transfers. Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies: Download
  • Review by Louise Ryan in Ageing & Society: Download
  • Review by Kristin Elizabeth Yarris in Anthropology & Ageing: Download
  • Review by Catherine Tong in Ageing & Society: Download
• Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past (with Jelena Tosic), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  • Review by Simone Benazzo in Memory Studies: Download
  • Review by Johann Jan Pijpers in European Association of Anthropologists: Download
  • Review by Mohamad Mezian in Hespéris-Tamunda, 2018.
• How Generations Remember: Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  • Review by Giulia Carabelli in Memory Studies: Download
  • Review by Sanda Üllen in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Download
  • Review by Trošt Tamara in Südosteuropa: Download

Peer Reviewed Special Issues

• "At the intersection of mobile online and offline spaces: Researching everyday media practices" (with Katja Kaufmann). Special Issue in Media and Communication 2022, Vol. 10, No. 3. 
• "'Let me tell you a story': Anthropological encounters with narrative". Special Issue (with Barbara Götsch). Narrative Culture. 2022, Vol. 9, No. 1.

Peer Reviewed Articles

• ”Doing Research at Online and Offline Intersections: Bringing Together Digital and Mobile Methodologies.” (with Katja Kaufmann) In Media and Communication, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2022, 219-224.
• "Refugees enacting (digital) citizenship through placemaking and care practices near and far." Journal of Citizenship Studies, Vol. 26, No. 6, 2022.
• “Migrants and New Media: Digital Ethnography, Transnationalism, and Superdiversity”. In Meissner, Fran; Nando Sigona and Steve Vertovec (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Superdiversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• “Narratives of Transnational Placemaking. Exploring Migrant Workers’ Hidden Histories through Memory-Guided City Walks: A Migrant Woman’s Narrative.” in Narrative Culture Vol. 9, No. 1, 2022, 91-108.
• "The Nexus of Anthropology and Narrative: Ethnographic Encounters with Storytelling Practices" (with Barbara Götsch) in Narrative Culture Vol 9., No. 1, 2022, 1-22.
• “Digitale Tagebuchforschung” (digital diary research). In Sven Stollfuß, Laura Niebling and Felix Raczkowski (eds.) Handbuch digitale Medien und Methoden. Berlin: Springer (accepted, forthcoming 2022).
• “Why Alternative Memory and Place-making Practices in Divided Cities Matter.“ In Space and Polity, 2019, 243-249.
• “Relational Ambivalence: Exploring the social and discursive dimensions of ambivalence – the case of Turkish aging labor migrants.“ In International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Vol. 70, No. 1-2), 2019: 74-90.
• “Social Ties and Embeddedness in Old Age: Older Labour Migrants in Vienna”. In Ciobanu, Ruxandra Oana et al. (eds.). Ageing as a Migrant: Vulnerabilities, Agency and Policy Implications. New York: Routledge, 2019, 72-86.
• “Social Embeddedness and Care Among Turkish Labor Migrants in Vienna: The Role of Migrant Associations.” In Hromadzic, Azra and Monika Palmberger (eds.). Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration Across Societies, Oxford and Brooklyn, NY: Berghahn, 2018, 97-112.
• “Introduction: Care across Distance (with Azra Hromadzic)." In Hromadzic, Azra and Monika Palmberger (eds.). Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration, Oxford and Brooklyn, NY: Berghahn, 2018, 1-12.
• “Between Past and Future: Young People’s Strategies for Living a “Normal Life” in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina.” In Montgomery W. David (ed.), Everyday Life in the Balkans. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018, 107-116.
• “Nationalizing the streetscape. The case of street renaming in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.” In Rose-Redwood, R., D. Alderman, and M. Azaryahu (eds.). The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes. Naming, Politics, and Place: Routledge, 2018, 168-184.
• “Introduction: Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past.” (with Jelena Tosic). In Palmberger, Monika and Jelena Tosic (eds). Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 1-16.
• “Social Ties and Embeddedness in Old Age: Older Labour Migrants in Vienna.” In Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.Vol. 43, No. 2., 2016, 235-249.
• “Qualitative Comparative Practices: Dimensions, Cases, and Strategies” (with Andre Gingrich). In Uwe Flick (ed.), Sage Handbook of Analyzing Qualitative Data. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2013, 94-108.
• “Practices of Border Crossing in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Case of Mostar”. In Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Vol. 20, No. 5, 544-560, 2013.
• “Ruptured Pasts and Captured Futures: Life Narratives in Post-War Mostar”. In Focaal. Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, No. 66, 2013, 14-24.
• “Flüchtlinge” (Refugees) (with Gudrun Kroner). In Kreff, Fernand, Eva-Maria Knoll und Andre Gingrich (eds.), Lexikon der Globalisierung (Encyclopaedia of Globalisation). Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011, 85-89.
• “Distancing Personal Experiences from the Collective: Discursive Tactics among Youth in Post-War Mostar”. In L'Europe en formation. Journal of Studies on European Integration and Federalism, No. 357, 2010, 107-124.
• “Nostalgia Matters: Nostalgia for Yugoslavia as Potential Vision for a Better Future”. In Sociologija, Vol. 50, No. 4, 2008, 355-370. 
• “Making and Breaking Boundaries: Memory Discourses and Memory Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. In Bufon, Milan et al. (eds.), The Western Balkans - A European Challenge. Koper: Annales, 2006, 525-536.

Selection of Other Publications

• Palmberger, Monika. Digitale Medien und Methoden. Monika Palmberger über digitale Tagebücher als ‹Media of Care› und Narrative der Flucht. In: Open-Media-Studies-Blog der Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Feb. 2021.
• Palmberger, Monika. 2021. Review of “The Past Can’t Heal Us” by Lea David in the Diplomatic/International History Roundtable. H-Diplo Roundtable XXIII-7.
• Palmberger, Monika und Philipp Budka. Collaborative Ethnography in the Digital Age: Towards a New Methodological Framework. Digital Ethnography Initiative (DEI) Blog, Nov. 2020. 
• Interview with Monika Palmberger on “Memory landscapes in (post)Yugoslavia” with Milica Popović and Natalija Majsova. In Journal of Historical Expertise. September 2020. 
• Interview with Monika Palmberger on ageing and mobilities with Victoria Sakti, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. July 2019.
• Article in "Der Standard", December 19th, 2022
• “Walking in Vienna,“ Societal Impact Platform, University of Vienna, January 2021
• "Rückblick aus der Zukunft". Monika Palmberger spricht in der Ö1 Sendereihe "Punkt eins" (28.12.2020) darüber, wie wir uns an das Jahr 2020 erinnern werden
• Article in "Der Standard", December 23, 2020
• "Making analogue connections by digital media" Scilog, FWF, Nov. 2020
• Interview with Monika Palmberger “Memory Landscapes in (Post-)Yugoslavia”, August 1, 2020
• „Goodbye, Tito“ in El País, May 4, 2020
• Interview with Monika Palmberger on ageing and mobilities, July 2019
• "Die Erinnerungen der GastarbeiterInnen“, Forschungsnewsletter, University of Vienna June 2019
• Article in "Die Presse", June 29, 2019