Books by Michael Zinganel
Stop and Go: Nodes of Transformation and Transition , 2019
Stop and Go: Nodes of Transformation and Transition was a research project by architect and artis... more Stop and Go: Nodes of Transformation and Transition was a research project by architect and artist Michael Hieslmair and cultural historian Michael Zinganel from Vienna in collaboration with geographer Tarmo Pikner from Tallinn and historian and anthropologist Emiliya Karaboeva from Sofia.
The project was hosted by the Academy of Fine arts Vienna and funded by the 2013 WWTF call „Public Spaces in Transition."
The project focuses on the transformation of hubs and terminals as well as formal and informal nodes along the network of pan-European road transport corridors connecting the former East and West of Europe.
The book presents several trans-disciplinary case studies in the geographical triangle between Vienna, Tallinn and Helsinki and the Bulgarian-Turkish border. Each investigates how differently the networks and temporary habitats of highly mobile actors along these road corridors – both in the posturban intermediate zones and in the city centers – have undergone and continue to undergo significant changes before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the enlargement of the EU, and the re-expansion of transport infrastructure.
The publication with contributions by Johanna Kandl, Emiliya Karaboeva, Sonja Leimer, Juan Moreno, Katarzyna Osiecka, Tarmo Pikner, Tatjana Vukosavljević, Michael Hieslmair & Michael Zinganel in available at Sternberg press, Berlin.
" Bringing together scholars from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with those from 'the West', th... more " Bringing together scholars from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with those from 'the West', this book utilizes tourism as a tool to understand cultural and economic processes thus enriching debates in the study of tourism and giving voice to scholars from CEE. The book builds a bridge between scholarship once separated, by the so-called Iron Curtain. At a time when identity politics is rising, and we seem to be seeing the pulling across of new 'Iron Curtains,' the invitation to walk across the bridge appears ever more urgent and makes this book essential reading for us all. " —Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University ABOUT THE BOOK
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe.
This edited collection contributes to the wider discussion of the geopolitics of knowledge through its focus on the anthropological background of tourism studies and its inclusion of contributors Eastern Europe is a pioneering collection, edited by two renowned Polish authorities, on the anthropology of tourism that demonstrates the dynamic nature of travel and tourism and emphasizes the freshness of this research area. This is the first study of its kind to give voice to a wide range of research from scholars from Central and Eastern Europe and is an essential source for researchers, teachers, and students of tourism, anthropology, human geography, and European studies. " —Hana Horáková, Metropolitan University Prague
Catalog of an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna:
Road corridors represent the moderni... more Catalog of an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna:
Road corridors represent the modernisation of states and unions of states but are also great reserves of imagination and imaginaries. They function as docking stations for tethering numerous dreams (and nightmares). They operate like magnets, attracting both things and individuals that come within their orbit or accumulate around them. Those experiences are registered in official control body
statistics, mass media news clips, stories from the daily lives of road users and residents, in research reports and art works. The points where the flow of traffic is interrupted—bus terminals, logistic centres, motorway service stations, markets or border crossing points—are noteworthy for allowing us to read the strategies of control of (supra)national organisations and large enterprises and the motives and biographies of the actors en route. A dynamic model of urbanity emerges from this process, interconnected archipelagos, some of which are transmuted by the daily routines of the actors’ multilocal existences from non-places to intimate anchor points.
Every summer season, the sun-drenched coasts of Bulgaria and Croatia turn into densely inhabited,... more Every summer season, the sun-drenched coasts of Bulgaria and Croatia turn into densely inhabited, intensively exploited tourism industry hotspots. This book traces the various architectural and urban planning strategies pursued there since the mid 1950s, in order first to create then to further develop modern holiday destinations. It portrays (late-) modern tourism architecture and resorts of a remarkable quality and typological diversity, which have persisted both as a playground for the domestic labour force and as a viable product on the international market. Yet the authors focus above all on how, in the wake of political change and the privatization of business, individual resorts and outstanding buildings have been economically and physically restructured, in a myriad of ways, leaving a legacy of deserted ruins, cautious renovations, exorbitant conversions and on-going public protest.
With texts by Elke Beyer and Anke Hagemann, Maroje Mrduljaš, Norbert Mappes-Niediek, and Michael Zinganel; with photographs by Nikola Mihov, Wolfgang Thaler, ccn-Archive Zagreb et al.
co-edited with Elke Beyer and Anke Hagemann (Berlin: jovis 2013).
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Edited Journals by Michael Zinganel
Book Chapters by Michael Zinganel
East West Central: Re-Building Europe, 1950–1990; Vol.1, 2016
Der Text präsentiert den theoretischen Hintergrund, die angewandten Methoden sowie die vorläufige... more Der Text präsentiert den theoretischen Hintergrund, die angewandten Methoden sowie die vorläufigen Erkenntnisse eines aktuellen interdisziplinären Forschungs-Projektes, das Knotenpunkte transnationaler Mobilität und Migration entlang der wichtigsten PAN-Europäischen Straßenverkehrs-Korridore in einem Dreieck zwischen Wien, Tallinn und der Türkisch-Bulgarischen Grenze untersucht. Dabei dient ein Ford Transit Transporter der Assimilierung in die Milieus unterwegs, als mobiles Forschungs-Labor und Display um episodische Interviews vor Ort zu generieren, die in eine vernetzte " Kartographie " übersetzt werden, in der die Wechselwirkungen von übergeordneten wirtschaftspolitischen Entwicklungen, Transformationen des urbanes Raums und individuellen Erfahrungen und alternativen Wissensformen der mobilen Akteure nachgezeichnet werden.
An introduction into the notion of the mobility continuum, the metaphor of the boat and the appro... more An introduction into the notion of the mobility continuum, the metaphor of the boat and the approach of artists toward tourism and migration.
The realm of stadium planning is rife with experts and consultants with mathematical minds, who q... more The realm of stadium planning is rife with experts and consultants with mathematical minds, who quickly grasp not only the direct but also the indirect, in fact that even 'immaterial' profits may be generated by competitive sports in a public arena. The economic development potential of sport is no different from that of the cultural sector: to build a stadium (or museum) boosts the local economy and allegedly constitutes a sustainable investment in a location's profile, at the local and perhaps also the international level. The ensuing opportunities for diversification of revenue streams generally compensate the publicly funded maintenance of a stadium (or museum).
In an ironic depiction of a bourgeois economy, Karl Marx argued more than 140 years ago that the ... more In an ironic depiction of a bourgeois economy, Karl Marx argued more than 140 years ago that the capitalist society was already so perfectly developed that it knew how to functionalize even its declared enemies for its own ends. According to Marx, the criminal not only produces the crime itself, but also all measures directed against crime as well as all forms by which criminality is reported, whether in the fine arts, scholarly publications, or the mass media. For criminals, crime doesn’t necessarily pay; for their hapless victims, it doesn’t pay at all—but according to Marx it does for society as a whole.
Journal Articles by Michael Zinganel
Published in: JAR Journal of Artistic Research, Issue 14, 2017.
The most comprehensive documenta... more Published in: JAR Journal of Artistic Research, Issue 14, 2017.
The most comprehensive documentation and reflection of our past research project STOP AND GO: Nodes of Transformation and Transition (2014–16) including vast audio-visual material, maps, photos and even an animated graphic novel.
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 2015
When increasing numbers of people are obliged to spend increasing amounts of time in transit then... more When increasing numbers of people are obliged to spend increasing amounts of time in transit then nodes and hubs alongside major traffic corridors – where traffic comes to halt and exchange between actors en route happens – represent new forms of urbanity and public space, sites where both individuals’ routes, routines, and rituals and political transitions and urban transformations can be explored. If we follow Henri Lefebvre’s thesis that urbanity is no longer defined by density but by the degree of difference performed at specific places, then these nodes paradigmatically represent new forms of urbanity and public space. What remained largely unexplored in the investigations so far was emphasizing these nodes as polyrhythmic ensembles, linked to their temporal adaptability – reacting on daily, weekly, and seasonal rhythms of traffic flows – and their interdependence on one another.
Die alpinen Tourismusdestinationen im Westen Österreichs stellen sich heute als hybride Agglomera... more Die alpinen Tourismusdestinationen im Westen Österreichs stellen sich heute als hybride Agglomerationen von Bauwerken dar, die sich inmitten einer monumentalen Bergwelt scheinbar willkürlich und ungeplant rund um Seilbahnen und Lifte angelagert haben. Sie bestehen aus riesigen Parkplätzen und Parkhäusern, Skiverleih- und Apres-Ski-Einrichtungen, Hotels, Pensionen und Appartment häusern, aus festen und ephemeren Bühnen, sowie Backstage Facilities und Service Einrichtungen, deren Anordung und Form den Ordungsobsessionen und Stilpräferenzen der akademischen Eliten -vor allem RaumplanerInnen, ArchitektInnen und ArchitekturkritikerInnen- entgegenstehen.
Reviews by Michael Zinganel
Indigenous Aliens: Mediators of Architectural Modernity
Especially in the case of Romania the large-scale tourism projects at the Black Sea Coast represe... more Especially in the case of Romania the large-scale tourism projects at the Black Sea Coast represented a laboratory that triggered a breakthrough for an explicit Modernist architecture, urbanism, and landscape design, entirely liberated from neo-classical models that dominated the establishment of socialism at the beginning of '50s. Although tourism resorts had also been intended to be tools for ideological representation, propaganda, and even indoctrination, they also offered the opportunity for the domestic and foreign tourists to lead a new lifestyle that served perfectly to escape the pressures of everyday life and political ideologies (be they communist or capitalist). The literal heterotopic architecture had been as modern as the Seaside experience, and both had been more affiliated to the general Fordist consumer culture of that period than to local Socialist policies.
The exhibition Enchanting Views had been shown from 10 th of October to 23 rd of November 2014 at Dalles Hall, hosted by the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (MNAC).
Journal Issues by Michael Zinganel
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Papers by Michael Zinganel
Mobilities
Creative practices have made a standing contribution to mobilities research. We write this articl... more Creative practices have made a standing contribution to mobilities research. We write this article as a collective of 25 scholars and practitioners to make a provocation: to further position creative mobilities research as a fundamental contribution and component in this field. The article explores how creative forms of research-whether in the form of artworks, exhibitions, performances, collaborations, and morehas been a foundational part of shaping the new mobilities paradigm, and continues to influence its methodological, epistemological, and ontological concerns. We tour through the interwoven history of art and mobilities research, outlining five central contributions that creativity brings. Through short vignettes of each author's creative practice, we discuss how creativity has been key to the evolution and emergence of how mobilities research has expanded to global audiences of scholars, practitioners, and communities. The article concludes by highlighting the potency of the arts for lively and transdisciplinary pathways for future mobilities research in the uncertainties that lay ahead.
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Especially in the case of Romania the large-scale tourism projects at the Black Sea Coast represe... more Especially in the case of Romania the large-scale tourism projects at the Black Sea Coast represented a laboratory that triggered a breakthrough for an explicit Modernist architecture, urbanism, and landscape design, entirely liberated from neo-classical models that dominated the establishment of socialism at the beginning of '50s. Although tourism resorts had also been intended to be tools for ideological representation, propaganda, and even indoctrination, they also offered the opportunity for the domestic and foreign tourists to lead a new lifestyle that served perfectly to escape the pressures of everyday life and political ideologies (be they communist or capitalist). The literal heterotopic architecture had been as modern as the Seaside experience, and both had been more affiliated to the general Fordist consumer culture of that period than to local Socialist policies. The exhibition Enchanting Views had been shown from 10 th of October to 23 rd of November 2014 at Dalles Hall, hosted by the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (MNAC).
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Books by Michael Zinganel
The project was hosted by the Academy of Fine arts Vienna and funded by the 2013 WWTF call „Public Spaces in Transition."
The project focuses on the transformation of hubs and terminals as well as formal and informal nodes along the network of pan-European road transport corridors connecting the former East and West of Europe.
The book presents several trans-disciplinary case studies in the geographical triangle between Vienna, Tallinn and Helsinki and the Bulgarian-Turkish border. Each investigates how differently the networks and temporary habitats of highly mobile actors along these road corridors – both in the posturban intermediate zones and in the city centers – have undergone and continue to undergo significant changes before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the enlargement of the EU, and the re-expansion of transport infrastructure.
The publication with contributions by Johanna Kandl, Emiliya Karaboeva, Sonja Leimer, Juan Moreno, Katarzyna Osiecka, Tarmo Pikner, Tatjana Vukosavljević, Michael Hieslmair & Michael Zinganel in available at Sternberg press, Berlin.
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe.
This edited collection contributes to the wider discussion of the geopolitics of knowledge through its focus on the anthropological background of tourism studies and its inclusion of contributors Eastern Europe is a pioneering collection, edited by two renowned Polish authorities, on the anthropology of tourism that demonstrates the dynamic nature of travel and tourism and emphasizes the freshness of this research area. This is the first study of its kind to give voice to a wide range of research from scholars from Central and Eastern Europe and is an essential source for researchers, teachers, and students of tourism, anthropology, human geography, and European studies. " —Hana Horáková, Metropolitan University Prague
Road corridors represent the modernisation of states and unions of states but are also great reserves of imagination and imaginaries. They function as docking stations for tethering numerous dreams (and nightmares). They operate like magnets, attracting both things and individuals that come within their orbit or accumulate around them. Those experiences are registered in official control body
statistics, mass media news clips, stories from the daily lives of road users and residents, in research reports and art works. The points where the flow of traffic is interrupted—bus terminals, logistic centres, motorway service stations, markets or border crossing points—are noteworthy for allowing us to read the strategies of control of (supra)national organisations and large enterprises and the motives and biographies of the actors en route. A dynamic model of urbanity emerges from this process, interconnected archipelagos, some of which are transmuted by the daily routines of the actors’ multilocal existences from non-places to intimate anchor points.
With texts by Elke Beyer and Anke Hagemann, Maroje Mrduljaš, Norbert Mappes-Niediek, and Michael Zinganel; with photographs by Nikola Mihov, Wolfgang Thaler, ccn-Archive Zagreb et al.
co-edited with Elke Beyer and Anke Hagemann (Berlin: jovis 2013).
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Edited Journals by Michael Zinganel
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Book Chapters by Michael Zinganel
Journal Articles by Michael Zinganel
The most comprehensive documentation and reflection of our past research project STOP AND GO: Nodes of Transformation and Transition (2014–16) including vast audio-visual material, maps, photos and even an animated graphic novel.
Reviews by Michael Zinganel
The exhibition Enchanting Views had been shown from 10 th of October to 23 rd of November 2014 at Dalles Hall, hosted by the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (MNAC).
Journal Issues by Michael Zinganel
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Papers by Michael Zinganel
The project was hosted by the Academy of Fine arts Vienna and funded by the 2013 WWTF call „Public Spaces in Transition."
The project focuses on the transformation of hubs and terminals as well as formal and informal nodes along the network of pan-European road transport corridors connecting the former East and West of Europe.
The book presents several trans-disciplinary case studies in the geographical triangle between Vienna, Tallinn and Helsinki and the Bulgarian-Turkish border. Each investigates how differently the networks and temporary habitats of highly mobile actors along these road corridors – both in the posturban intermediate zones and in the city centers – have undergone and continue to undergo significant changes before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the enlargement of the EU, and the re-expansion of transport infrastructure.
The publication with contributions by Johanna Kandl, Emiliya Karaboeva, Sonja Leimer, Juan Moreno, Katarzyna Osiecka, Tarmo Pikner, Tatjana Vukosavljević, Michael Hieslmair & Michael Zinganel in available at Sternberg press, Berlin.
In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe.
This edited collection contributes to the wider discussion of the geopolitics of knowledge through its focus on the anthropological background of tourism studies and its inclusion of contributors Eastern Europe is a pioneering collection, edited by two renowned Polish authorities, on the anthropology of tourism that demonstrates the dynamic nature of travel and tourism and emphasizes the freshness of this research area. This is the first study of its kind to give voice to a wide range of research from scholars from Central and Eastern Europe and is an essential source for researchers, teachers, and students of tourism, anthropology, human geography, and European studies. " —Hana Horáková, Metropolitan University Prague
Road corridors represent the modernisation of states and unions of states but are also great reserves of imagination and imaginaries. They function as docking stations for tethering numerous dreams (and nightmares). They operate like magnets, attracting both things and individuals that come within their orbit or accumulate around them. Those experiences are registered in official control body
statistics, mass media news clips, stories from the daily lives of road users and residents, in research reports and art works. The points where the flow of traffic is interrupted—bus terminals, logistic centres, motorway service stations, markets or border crossing points—are noteworthy for allowing us to read the strategies of control of (supra)national organisations and large enterprises and the motives and biographies of the actors en route. A dynamic model of urbanity emerges from this process, interconnected archipelagos, some of which are transmuted by the daily routines of the actors’ multilocal existences from non-places to intimate anchor points.
With texts by Elke Beyer and Anke Hagemann, Maroje Mrduljaš, Norbert Mappes-Niediek, and Michael Zinganel; with photographs by Nikola Mihov, Wolfgang Thaler, ccn-Archive Zagreb et al.
co-edited with Elke Beyer and Anke Hagemann (Berlin: jovis 2013).
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The most comprehensive documentation and reflection of our past research project STOP AND GO: Nodes of Transformation and Transition (2014–16) including vast audio-visual material, maps, photos and even an animated graphic novel.
The exhibition Enchanting Views had been shown from 10 th of October to 23 rd of November 2014 at Dalles Hall, hosted by the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest (MNAC).
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