Research assistant

Marie Karner studied Geography, Economics and Communication Studies and has been working as a research assistant at the Institute of Geography at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz since 2013, where she obtained a doctorate with a doctoral degree in 2020. Her thematic research units [im Rahmen der Forschungsinitiative 2008-11] are (neo-)diasporic communities, migration, Arab and colonial old towns as well as cruise and film tourism. On a theoretical level, she deals with diaspora concepts, social networks, ethnic identities, approaches to communitization(communities of practice and neo-tribes) as well as processes of commodification, touristification and atmospheric experience. Her regional focus is on the USA, Australia, Cuba, Brazil and Lebanon, where she was funded for a year in 2017 as a doctoral fellow at the Orient-Institut Beirut.