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Institute for Spatial and Social-Ecological Transformations (ISSET)RSS

ISSET is an interdisciplinary institute at the Department of Socioeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business that unites research from socioeconomics, geography, political ecology, and planning focusing on the contours, challenges, multiple causes, and consequences of past, current, and future spatial and social-ecological transformations. In cooperation with the International Karl Polanyi Society, it aims at contributing to an interdisciplinary social science of economics by linking economics and other social sciences.

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New position of Corinna Dengler

We are happy to inform you that Corinna Dengler has started a new position at ISSET. She has signed a tenure-track agreement, starting March 1st 2026, that will allow her to advance from her current…

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Two projects funded by ÖAW

Data:Research:Austria-projects acquired by Linda Li, Daniel Grabner and Jürgen Essletzbichler as well as Franziska Disslbacher with two colleagues

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Reading Circle: last session on 25th February at 5 pm

This reading circle will serve as a preparatory event for an upcoming international conference, titled “Socioeconomics and Law – The conditions of the authoritarian turn yesterday and today” that is…