Editorial: Inequalities and Representation in Southeast Asia

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Dayana Lengauer, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Dayana Lengauer is researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include youth, social media, Islam, and gender in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on student activism and online publics in Indonesia.

Rainer Einzenberger, Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation

Rainer Einzenberger works for Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) since 2019. From 2015 to 2019 he was University Assistant at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna where he obtained his Doctoral degree in Development Studies in 2020. Prior to this he was Programme Coordinator for the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Southeast Asia, based in Thailand where he coordinated the Myanmar Programme.

Simon Rowedder, National University of Singapore

Simon Rowedder is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. His research interests span economic anthropology, border studies, and development studies, with a regional focus on the Sino–Southeast Asian borderlands – particularly Yunnan, Laos, and Thailand.

Alexander Trupp, University of Innsbruck

Alexander Trupp is currently Guest Professor in Human Geography at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Before joining Innsbruck, he served as Associate Professor, acting Head of the Asia Pacific Centre for Hospitality Research, and Deputy Dean for Research at the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sunway University, Malaysia. His research focuses on social geographies, including (im)mobilities, migration, tourism, sustainability, digitalization, and microbusinesses, with an emphasis on qualitative and creative methods.

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2025-10-27

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