Florian Purkarthofer , BA MA
Florian Purkarthofer
Department of East Asian Studies
Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2K-O1-11
T: +43-1-4277-43814

Profile photoFlorian Purkarthofer
Department of East Asian Studies - Japanese Studies
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.4 (Campus)
1090 Vienna, Austria
Room: 2K-O1-11

Research Interests

contemporary Japanese society
urban spaces / spatial research
multisensory anthropology / society and the senses
spatial discourse & communication
critique / conflict
hetero-/utopias

Bio

Florian Purkarthofer is a researcher at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. He is currently working on a project regarding urban space in Tokyo as a nexus of conflicting individual perceptions and social constructions, by using experimental methods from multisensory anthropology.


Current Projects

Urban Spaces: Perceived, Constructed, Lived [PhD Project]

[Digitale Hilfsmittel f. d. akad. Forschung u. Lehre - DHaFL]
Images of Japan in contemporary Art and Culture | Innovative Lehre 2021SoSe | 2021/03 → 2021/08
u:japan lectures | 2020/05 → 
 

Recent Publications

Purkarthofer, F. (2021)
"Chasing the Locals in Urban Japan: An Anthropocentric Approach to Conceptualizing Multilayered Locals in Contemporary Tokyo"Asien: the German journal on contemporary Asia, 158/159, 134–160. (IN Special Issue: Junge Wiener Ostasienwissenschaften | Mandl, M., & Purkarthofer, F. (eds.) http://asien.asienforschung.de/asien-158-159/)
 
Purkarthofer, F. (2021)
 
Gmeinbauer, C. / Polak-Rottmann, S. / Purkarthofer, F. eds. (2020) 
Wiener Selektion japanologischer Methoden: Jahrgang 2020
Wien: Abteilung für Japanologie, Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften, Universität Wien.
(= Beiträge zur Japanologie; 48). https://doi.org/10.25365/BZJ-048-000
 
Purkarthofer, F. (2020) 
"Tokyo’s architecture and urban structure: Change in an ever-changing city"
IN:Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics
Edited by Barbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003033905 

Journal Editing Roles

MINIKOMI: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies
editorial team, technical support, layout
https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/aaj/

Organisation of Conferences etc.

Cultural Typhoon in Europe 2016: Places and Spaces of Cultural Production in East Asia
22 Sep 2016 → 25 Sep 2016

Hyôron 評論: Kritik zwischen Populärkultur und Wissenschaft
15 Mär 2013 → 16 Mär 2013

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Mandl, M., & Purkarthofer, F. (Eds.) (2021). Junge Wiener Ostasienwissenschaften. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde DGA. Asien: the German journal on contemporary Asia Vol. 158/159

Gmeinbauer, C., Polak-Rottmann, S., & Purkarthofer, F. (2020). Die Qual der Methodenwahl: Vorwort. In Wiener Selektion japanologischer Methoden: Jahrgang 2020 (Vol. 48, pp. 7-16). Abt. für Japanologie des Inst. für Ostasienwiss. der Univ. Wien. Beiträge zur Japanologie. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Japanologie der Universität Wien https://doi.org/doi.org/10.25365/BZJ-048-002

Purkarthofer, F., & Polak-Rottmann, S. (2020). „Reden ist Silber, Zuhören ist Gold“: Durchführung und Analyse qualitativer Interviews in Japan. In Wiener Selektion japanologischer Methoden: Jahrgang 2020 (Vol. 48, pp. 127-156). Beiträge zur Japanologie. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Japanologie der Universität Wien https://doi.org/doi.org/10.25365/BZJ-048-008

Gmeinbauer, C., Polak-Rottmann, S., & Purkarthofer, F. (Eds.) (2020). Wiener Selektion japanologischer Methoden: Jahrgang 2020. (1 ed.) Abt. für Japanologie des Inst. für Ostasienwiss. der Univ. Wien. Beiträge zur Japanologie. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Japanologie der Universität Wien Vol. 48 https://doi.org/10.25365/BZJ-048-000

Purkarthofer, F. (2020). Tokyo’s architecture and urban structure: Change in an ever-changing city. In B. Holthus, I. Gagné, W. Manzenreiter, & F. Waldenberger (Eds.), Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics (pp. 47-51). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003033905







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Tōno–Tōkyō und retour: Reflexionen über räumliche und geographische Ausdrucksformen sozialer Differenzierung in japanischer Gegenwartsliteratur

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) & Tamara Kamerer (Speaker)

25 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Gentrification or what? Refining Gentrification in the Context of Japanese Cities

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) & Heide Imai (Speaker)

17 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


To Whom It May Concern: Rethinking the Questions of ‘Whose Games? Whose City?’ Through Sensation, Affect and Involvement

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

7 Dec 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Trains of Thought: Inquiries into the Social Space of eki-mae through the Everyday Practices of Waiting, Meeting and Leaving

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

28 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Narrow Streets Behind the Doors of Perception: Unscrambling Everyday Urban Space Through Senses and Discourses

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

27 Feb 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Shifts in Urban Transformation: Tokyo’s Architecture and Urban Structure Analyzed Through the 2020 Olympic Games

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

8 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The City Behind the Screens: Digitally Shared Perceptions and Networks of Imagined Tastes and Smells

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

16 Apr 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tokyo Topoi – Was urbane Orte ausmacht und was aus Orten gemacht wird

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

13 Feb 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


“Inner city life, inner city pressure” Thinking local urban spaces through senses and discourses (DIJ Social Science Study Group)

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

12 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Home is where the hatred is: Rendering ‘the local’ through proximity and affect in urban Tokyo

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

19 Oct 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


From Transport to Movement and Noise to Sound: Researching Western Tokyo through Conflicting Auditory Sensations

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

14 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Communicating Public Spaces – An Anthropological Approach to Discourse and Multisensory Perception of Space in Urban Tokyo

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

23 Feb 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Fragmentierung der Öffentlichkeit: Wahrnehmungen und Konstruktionen von urbanen Räumen im gegenwärtigen Tokyo

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

30 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Eine Explorative Datenanalyse japanischer Filmdatenbanken

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) & Peter Mühleder (Speaker)

1 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


“Space Oddity – Fragmented Discourses on Socially Constructed Urban Spaces in Western Tokyo”

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

1 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Utopian Critique and Critical Urban Utopias – about the paradox of utopian critique (not) becoming a lived urban utopia

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

23 Sep 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Individual Perception and Social Construction of Urban Spaces

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

29 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



“Shimokita Voice” but Meidaimae Silence? - An Anthropological Approach to Discourse and Multisensory Perception of Space in Urban Tokyo

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

24 Sep 201526 Sep 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tokioter Raumethnographien. Lebensräume zwischen individueller Wahrnehmung und sozialer Konstruktion

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

26 Aug 201528 Aug 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tokyo, Urban Space and the Production of Information

Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)

28 Jun 201429 Jun 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Summer term 2024
150079 UE STEOP: Introduction to Japanese Studies - Preparatory Course for the StEOP-examination
Summer term 2023
150079 UE STEOP: Introduction to Japanese Studies - Preparatory Course for the StEOP-examination

Department of East Asian Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2K-O1-11

T: +43-1-4277-43814

florian.purkarthofer@univie.ac.at
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/florian.purkarthofer

Consultation hours: upon request