1090 Wien
Room: 2K-O1-11
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]
Recent Publications
MINIKOMI: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies 88, 58–67.
https://doi.org/10.25365/aaj-2020-88-06
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
"Tokyo behind Screens: Participant Observation in a City of Mobile Digital Communication",
International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 50 (3-4), 55–78.
https://crossasia-journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/iqas/issue/view/747
"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
Editorial work
MINIKOMI: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies
editorial team, technical support, layout
https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/aaj/
Memberships
AAJ – Akademischer Arbeitskreis Japan (Kassier)
EAJS – European Assoziation of Japanese studies (Mitglied)
OAG – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens (Mitglied)
ÖGS (Sektion Stadtforschung) – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Sektionsrat)
Organisation of academic events
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
The curious case of evicted, acquired and abandoned land in Japan
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Sound control, authoritarian listening and sonorous negotiations in Western Tokyo
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Limits of Control: Approaching Tange Kenzo Through Vienna and Vice Versa
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Multi-Sensory Nexus eki-mae: A Case Study of Individual Perception and Social Construction of Urban Spaces in three Western Tokyo Neighbourhoods
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Von machiaruki (まち歩き) zu machizukuri (まちづくり) – von Stadtbegehung zu Stadtgestaltung: eine außereuropäische Perspektive auf die Möglichkeiten einer multisensorischen mobile Methode
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
On the Road (Again): Plädoyer für kritisch-involvierte Feldforschung an Orten des alltäglichen Lebens und gegen einen misanthropischen Wissenschaftsbetrieb
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tōno–Tōkyō und retour: Reflexionen über räumliche und geographische Ausdrucksformen sozialer Differenzierung in japanischer Gegenwartsliteratur
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) & Tamara Kamerer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Post-Human anthropology of the senses: An attempt to disentangle Tokyo’s localities from jumbled line(s), split screens, and (dis-)connections
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Gentrification or what? Refining Gentrification in the Context of Japanese Cities
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) & Heide Imai (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
To Whom It May Concern: Rethinking the Questions of ‘Whose Games? Whose City?’ Through Sensation, Affect and Involvement
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science 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)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Narrow Streets Behind the Doors of Perception: Unscrambling Everyday Urban Space Through Senses and Discourses
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Shifts in Urban Transformation: Tokyo’s Architecture and Urban Structure Analyzed Through the 2020 Olympic Games
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The City Behind the Screens: Digitally Shared Perceptions and Networks of Imagined Tastes and Smells
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tokyo Topoi – Was urbane Orte ausmacht und was aus Orten gemacht wird
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
“Inner city life, inner city pressure” Thinking local urban spaces through senses and discourses (DIJ Social Science Study Group)
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Home is where the hatred is: Rendering ‘the local’ through proximity and affect in urban Tokyo
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
From Transport to Movement and Noise to Sound: Researching Western Tokyo through Conflicting Auditory Sensations
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Multisensorische Räume im Zeitalter des Virtuellen: Wahrnehmung und Konstruktion von urbanen Räumen in Zeiten vermehrter und vermischter Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Communicating Public Spaces – An Anthropological Approach to Discourse and Multisensory Perception of Space in Urban Tokyo
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Die Fragmentierung der Öffentlichkeit: Wahrnehmungen und Konstruktionen von urbanen Räumen im gegenwärtigen Tokyo
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Eine Explorative Datenanalyse japanischer Filmdatenbanken
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker) & Peter Mühleder (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Space Oddity – Fragmented Discourses on Socially Constructed Urban Spaces in Western Tokyo”
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Utopian Critique and Critical Urban Utopias – about the paradox of utopian critique (not) becoming a lived urban utopia
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
Individual Perception and Social Construction of Urban Spaces
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Whose Games? Whose City? Whom should we ask? - Questioning contemporary forms of decision making and public participation in urban planning projects
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
“Shimokita Voice” but Meidaimae Silence? - An Anthropological Approach to Discourse and Multisensory Perception of Space in Urban Tokyo
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tokioter Raumethnographien. Lebensräume zwischen individueller Wahrnehmung und sozialer Konstruktion
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tokyo, Urban Space and the Production of Information
Florian Purkarthofer (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
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