A current empirical research project focuses specifically on questions of (national) identity and belonging among young urban Omanis. This generation, born after 1970, has grown up entirely within the modernization paradigm. At the same time, the social structure in Oman has changed and heterogenized rapidly during this time. Especially in the urban context, young people meet regardless of family affiliation and geographical origin. On the one hand, young urban Omanis cultivate lifestyles that differ in many respects from the values and consumption patterns of their parents’ generation. On the other hand, they orient themselves towards family-centered social structures in the context of weddings, for example in the choice of partner and wedding ceremony.

Cummings, V. and L. Christmann (2020): International labor migration to the Arab Gulf States. In: Geographical Review 4: 28-32.

2023:

Les transformations socio-spatiales à Mascate, Sultanate of Oman. Seminaire doctorale, CAREP Paris. 30.11.2023, online.

“Whatever we are doing here in Oman, it goes back to the family”: Spatial practices and situational identity of young urban Omani in Muscat. Annual Meeting, Middle East Studies Association, November 2023, Montréal, Canada. 03.11.2023

Capture situational practices visually. DKG’23 (German Congress for Geography), September 2023, Frankfurt. 19.10.2023

2021:

“Changing lifestyles, mobility pattern and its linked identity challenges of young Omani nationals in Muscat”, Annual Meeting, Middle East Studies Association (MESA), 30.11.2021, online.

“Marriages Practices of Young Urban Omani”, Workshop Talks, 27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), 16.09.2021, online.

“The Nation-Building Process in the Sultanate of Oman”, ACRPS Winter School Program. The State in Flux. Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar. 07.01.2021, online.

Middle East Studies Association (MESA)

Association of Geographers at German Higher Education Institutions (VGDH)

German-Omani Society

German Working Group for the Middle East (DAVO)

Gutenberg Graduate School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHS)

Winter semester 2023/24:

• M11a Seminar: Regional Geography “Arab Gulf States (GCC)”
• M2/M2ED Practice class: Human Geography I – F

Winter semester 2022/23:

• M2/M2ED Practice class: Human Geography I – D (together with Judith Maria Poersch)

Summer semester 2022:

• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography II – C
• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography II – D

Winter semester 2021/2022:

• M11/M9-ED Regional seminar + field trip “South of France”

Summer semester 2021:

• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography II – A
• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography II – B
• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography II – C
• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography II – D

Winter semester 2020/2021:

• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography I – G

Summer semester 2020:

• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography II – B
• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography II – C

Summer semester 2019:

• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography II – E
• M2/M2ED: Practice class: Human Geography II – F