Florian Purkarthofer , BA MA
Florian Purkarthofer
Department of East Asian Studies
Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
T: +43-1-4277-17553

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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. https://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). https://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





Purkarthofer, F., Mühleder, P., & Kamerer, T. (2014). EDITORIAL: Themenschwerpunkt: Kritik — 評論・批評 . Minikomi Informationen des Akademischen Arbeitskreises Japan, (84).


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The curious case of evicted, acquired and abandoned land in Japan

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)

9 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sound control, authoritarian listening and sonorous negotiations in Western Tokyo

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)

18 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Limits of Control: Approaching Tange Kenzo Through Vienna and Vice Versa

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)

5 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



Multi-Sensory Nexus eki-mae: A Case Study of Individual Perception and Social Construction of Urban Spaces in three Western Tokyo Neighbourhoods

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)

19 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science




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

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker) & Kamerer, T. (Speaker)

25 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



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

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker) & Imai, H. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (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)

Purkarthofer, F. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)

14 Sept 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

Purkarthofer, F. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)

30 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Eine Explorative Datenanalyse japanischer Filmdatenbanken

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker) & Mühleder, P. (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”

Purkarthofer, F. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)

23 Sept 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Individual Perception and Social Construction of Urban Spaces

Purkarthofer, F. (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

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)

24 Sept 201526 Sept 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tokioter Raumethnographien. Lebensräume zwischen individueller Wahrnehmung und sozialer Konstruktion

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)

26 Aug 201528 Aug 2015

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Tokyo, Urban Space and the Production of Information

Purkarthofer, F. (Speaker)

28 Jun 201429 Jun 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Winter term 2025
150025 UE Architecture and Metaphor - Constructions, Narratives and Interactions of/in the Built Environment in Modern East Asia
150031 UE u:japan Lecturecise (Focus Sustainability, Diversity, Democracy) - Interdisciplinary Takes on Pressing Topics Regarding Contemporary Japan

Department of East Asian Studies

Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien

T: +43-1-4277-17553

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

Consultation hours: upon request