Florian Purkarthofer

Florian Purkarthofer Öffentlicher CV

Research activity per year

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]

Digital Resources for Research and Teaching in Japanese Studies | 2020/10 →

[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)

"Heisei City: Ein Blick auf 30 Jahre urbaner Veränderungen",
MINIKOMI: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies 88, 58–67.
https://doi.org/10.25365/aaj-2020-88-06

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 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

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

Editorial work

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

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

Memberships

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):