Meyer, Silke

Silke Meyer is Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck, where she also heads the research area “Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts.” She has published widely on economic anthropology, money practices and debts, as well as remittances and migration, and previously headed the research project “Follow the Money: Remittances as Social Practices” (funded by the Austrian Science Fund, 2016-2020).

Claudius Ströhle is a Research Fellow in the Doctoral Programme “Dynamics of Inequality and Difference in the Age of Globalization” at the University of Innsbruck. As a member of the research project “Follow the Money: Remittances as Social Practices,” he conducted three long-term field studies in Turkey focusing on the meanings and transformative effects of remittances. Together with Silke Meyer, he designed and curated the exhibition “Migration Stories in Innsbruck” on transnational objects in the history of Innsbruck.