PD Mag. Dr.

Robert Pichler

robert.pichler(at)oeaw.ac.at
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Robert Pichler ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Forschungsbereich Balkanforschung.

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Robert Pichler studierte Geschichte und eine gewählte Fächerkombination aus Philosophie, Psychologie und Kunstgeschichte an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. 2017 erhielt er die Lehrbefugnis (venia docendi) für das Fach Südosteuropäische Geschichte. Seine Expertise in historischer Anthropologie vertiefte er durch einen Postgraduiertenkurs am Institut für Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Fortbildung (Wien, Klagenfurt, Graz) sowie durch zahlreiche Feldforschungsaufenthalte in Albanien, Nordmazedonien und dem Kosovo. Er ist Präsident der International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA) und Vorstandsmitglied des Center for Balkan Societies and Cultures (CSBSC). Zudem war er in verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Projekten tätig, unter anderem an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, dem Georg-Eckert-Institut für Internationale Schulbuchforschung in Braunschweig, der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin sowie der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. 2004 erhielt er gemeinsam mit Wolfgang Petritsch für das Buch Kosovo/Kosova. Der lange Weg zum Frieden den Bruno Kreisky Preis für das politische Buch des Jahres. Als Fotograf arbeitet er an der Schnittstelle zwischen Dokumentar- und Kunstphotographie.

Forschungsschwerpunkte


Zeit: 19.-21. Jahrhundert
Raum: Südosteuropa, Balkan, insbesondere Makedonien, Albanien, Kosovo/a
Themen: Migrationsforschung, Sozialgeschichte mit Schwerpunkt Familie und Verwandtschaft, Nationalstaatsbildung, Visual Studies

Wichtigste Publikationen


  • Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives / Fotografi dhe Tregime, mit Edit Pula(j), Wien: bahoe 2020, ISBN 978-3-903290-28-0, 336pp.
  • Remigration to post-socialist Europe. Hopes and realities of return, hgg. mit Caroline Hornstein-Tomic und Sarah Scholl Schneider (Berlin: LIT 2018), ISBN: 978-3643910257, 376pp.
  • Kosovo/Kosova. Der lange Weg zum Frieden, mit Wolfgang Petritsch (Klagenfurt 2004), ISBN: 978-3851295986, 411pp. (Übersetzungen ins Albanische und ins Serbische)
  • Conflicting Loyalties. Social (Dis)Integration in the Balkans, 1839-1914, hgg. mit Nathalie Clayer und Hannes Grandits (London-New York 2011), ISBN: 9781848854772, 368pp.
  • “Migration, Architecture and the Imagination of Home(land). An Albanian-Macedonian Case Study”, in Transnational Societies, Transterritorial Politics. Migrations from the (Post-)Yugoslav Area hrg. von Ulf Brunnbauer (München 2010): 213-236.

Monographien

Monographien

Herausgeberschaften und Sammelbände

Herausgeberschaften und Sammelbände

  • Special issue Visual Studies in and on Southeast Europe: Representation, Power, Memory and Gender in Photography and Film / Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 24

    Pichler Robert und Elife Krasniqi (eds.): Special issue Visual Studies in and on Southeast Europe: Representation, Power, Memory and Gender in Photography and Film / Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 24, Graz 2024, https://contemporarysee.org/issues-cse.
  • Kosovo in the Yugoslav 1980s – Yugoslav Perspectives and Interpretations (Comparative Southeast European Studies 69/2-3)

    Pichler Robert, Hannes Grandits und Ruža Fotiadis (eds.): Kosovo in the Yugoslav 1980s – Yugoslav Perspectives and Interpretations (Comparative Southeast European Studies 69/2-3), Oldenbourg: De Gruyter 2021, https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/soeu/69/2-3/html.
  • Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives / Fotografi dhe Tregime

    Pichler Robert und Edit Pulaj (eds.): Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives / Fotografi dhe Tregime, Wien: bahoe 2020.
  • From the Highlands to Hollywood. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Southeast Europe (Studies on Southeast Europe, Vol. 25)

    Gruber Siegfried et al. (eds.): From the Highlands to Hollywood. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Southeast Europe (Studies on Southeast Europe, Vol. 25), Wien: LIT 2020.
  • Remigration and Transformation in Post-socialist European Regions

    Hornstein Tomic Caroline, Robert Pichler und Sarah Scholl-Schneider (eds.): Remigration and Transformation in Post-socialist European Regions, Wien, Berlin: LIT 2018, http://www.lit-verlag.at/isbn/3-643-91025-7.
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Artikel

Artikel

  • Wie wichtig ist die Feldforschung (noch) für die historisch anthropologische Balkanforschung?

    Pichler Robert: Wie wichtig ist die Feldforschung (noch) für die historisch anthropologische Balkanforschung?, in: Michaela Wolf (ed.): Visionen Historischer Anthropologie im südöstlichen Europa. Karl Kaser - die Die Diskussion weiterführen, Studies on South East Europe, Wien: Lit 2024, S. 163-170.
  • Photography and the Gravity of Context. On Readings of Images of Albania's 90s.

    Pichler Robert: Photography and the Gravity of Context. On Readings of Images of Albania's 90s., in: Agata Rogos Weiss (ed.): Borderscape. Research representation and spatiality in the borders, Vernacular Forms 2024, S. 164-177.
  • Visual Studies in and on Southeastern Europe. An Introduction

    Krasniqi Elife, Robert Pichler: Visual Studies in and on Southeastern Europe. An Introduction, Special Issue Ethnologia Balkanica Vol. 24, Contemporary Southeastern Europe (2024), S. 1-13, https://contemporarysee.org/visual-studies-in-and-on-southeastern-europe-introduction.
  • Lasgush Poradeci. Stationen eines Lebens

    Pichler Robert: Lasgush Poradeci. Stationen eines Lebens, Edition Lichtungen (2024), S. 8-15, https://lichtungen.at/shop/.
  • On the Dynamics of Kinship in Migration Processes: Some Perspectives from Historical-Anthropological Studies on North Macedonian Migrants in Austria

    Leitner-Stojanov Darko, Robert Pichler: On the Dynamics of Kinship in Migration Processes: Some Perspectives from Historical-Anthropological Studies on North Macedonian Migrants in Austria, Journal of Austrian StudiesVol. 56 (2023), S. 65-75, https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51598.
  • In the Shadow of Kosovo. Divergent National Pathways and the Politics of Differentiation in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia

    Pichler Robert: In the Shadow of Kosovo. Divergent National Pathways and the Politics of Differentiation in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, Comparative Southeast European Studies69 (2021), S. 289-311, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/soeu-2021-0028/html.
  • Kosovo in the 1980s – Yugoslav Perspectives and Interpretations

    Pichler Robert, Hannes Grandits, Ruža Fotiadis: Kosovo in the 1980s – Yugoslav Perspectives and Interpretations, Comparative Southeast European Studies69 (2021), S. 171-182, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/soeu-2021-0059/html.
  • Religiöse Erneuerung: Islam bei den Albanern Nordmakedoniens

    Religiöse Erneuerung: Islam bei den Albanern Nordmakedoniens, Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und WestReligion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West (2021), S. 7-10, https://g2w.eu/zeitschrift/aktuelle-ausgabe.
  • Ernesto Troshani—the priest committed to pacifying blood feuds / Ernesto Troshani – Prifti I përkushtuar në pajtimin e gjakmarrjes

    Pichler Robert: Ernesto Troshani—the priest committed to pacifying blood feuds / Ernesto Troshani – Prifti I përkushtuar në pajtimin e gjakmarrjes, in: Pichler Robert und Edit Pula(j) (eds.): Albania’s 90s. Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives /Fotografi dhe Tregime, Wien: bahoe 2020, S. 204-223.
  • ”Good for those who already died, we could still bury them”—About the disintegration of village communities in the southern Albanian highlands / “Lum ata që vdiqën, sa na kishin neve për t’i varrosur!” – Mbi shpërbërjen e bashkësive të fshatrave në malësitë e Shqipërisë së Jugut

    Pichler Robert: ”Good for those who already died, we could still bury them”—About the disintegration of village communities in the southern Albanian highlands / “Lum ata që vdiqën, sa na kishin neve për t’i varrosur!” – Mbi shpërbërjen e bashkësive të fshatrave në malësitë e Shqipërisë së Jugut, in: Pichler Robert und Edit Pula(j) (eds.): Albania’s 90s. Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives /Fotografi dhe Tregime, Wien: bahoe 2020.
  • Exploring Kurvelesh and Himara / Në zbulim të Kurveleshit dhe Himarës

    Pichler Robert: Exploring Kurvelesh and Himara / Në zbulim të Kurveleshit dhe Himarës, in: Pichler Robert und Edit Pula(j) (eds.): Albania’s 90s. Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives /Fotografi dhe Tregime, Wien: bahoe 2020, S. 282-291.
  • In search of the remnants of the kanun 7 Në kërkim të mbetjeve zakonore të kanunit

    Pichler Robert: In search of the remnants of the kanun 7 Në kërkim të mbetjeve zakonore të kanunit, in: Robert Pichler Edit Pula(j) (ed.): , Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives /Fotografi dhe Tregime, Wien: bahoe 2020, S. 190-197.
  • Albdorado—Land of blood and honey / Albdorado – Vend prej gjaku dhe mjalti

    Pichler Robert: Albdorado—Land of blood and honey / Albdorado – Vend prej gjaku dhe mjalti, in: Pichler Robert und Edit Pula(j) (eds.): Albania’s 90s. Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives /Fotografi dhe Tregime, Wien: bahoe 2020, S. 158-161.
  • Return to a different country / Kthim në një vendtë ndryshuar

    Pichler Robert: Return to a different country / Kthim në një vendtë ndryshuar, in: Pichler Robert und Edit Pula(j) (eds.): Albania’s 90s. Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives /Fotografi dhe Tregime, Wien: bahoe 2020, S. 124-131.
  • First encounters with Albania in 1989 / Takimet e para me Shqipërinë në 1989

    Pichler Robert: First encounters with Albania in 1989 / Takimet e para me Shqipërinë në 1989, in: Pichler. Robert und Edit Pula(j) (eds.): Albania’s 90s. Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives /Fotografi dhe Tregime, Wien: bahoe 2020, S. 82-91.
  • Photography, representation, and memory: Observations from presentations, exhibitions and from the field / Fotografia, paraqitja dhe kujtesa: vëzhgime nga prezantime, ekspozita dhe nga terreni

    Pichler Robert: Photography, representation, and memory: Observations from presentations, exhibitions and from the field / Fotografia, paraqitja dhe kujtesa: vëzhgime nga prezantime, ekspozita dhe nga terreni, in: Pichler Robert und Edit Pula(j) (eds.): Albania’s 90s. Albania’s 90s. Photographs and Narratives /Fotografi dhe Tregime, Wien: bahoe 2020, S. 18-63.
  • Social Cleavages and interethnic conflict in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia: Findings from two villages in Western Macedonia

    Gruber Siegfried, Robert Pichler: Social Cleavages and interethnic conflict in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia: Findings from two villages in Western Macedonia, in: Gruber Siegfried et al. (eds.): , Studies on Southeast Europe, Wien: LIT 2020, S. 287-308.
  • Kioske - temporäre Architektur und soziale Lebenswelten an der albanischen Küste / Kiosks - temporary architecture and social living environments on the Albanian coast

    Robert Pichler: Kioske - temporäre Architektur und soziale Lebenswelten an der albanischen Küste / Kiosks - temporary architecture and social living environments on the Albanian coast, in: Adolph Stiller (ed.): Albanien. Bauen im Politischen Kontext der Jahrzehnte / Albania. Decades of Architecture in Political Context, Architektur im Ringturm, Wien: müry salzmann 2019, S. 220-231, http://www.muerysalzmann.at/shop/shop_artikeldetails.asp?str=albanien&sf=1&agnr=292.
  • Albanian Studies in Graz. Historical Anthropological Approaches to Family, Kinship and Migration – A Brief Overview

    Robert Pichler: Albanian Studies in Graz. Historical Anthropological Approaches to Family, Kinship and Migration – A Brief Overview, in: Rexhep Ismajli (ed.): STUDIMET ALBANISTIKE NË VENDET KU FLITET GJERMANISHT (Albanische Forschungen in den deutschsprachigen Ländern), ASHSH : Seksioni i Gjuhësisë dhe i Letërsisë, Prishtina: ASHAK 2018, S. 329-344.
  • Remigration to Post-socialist Europe. Introduction

    Hornstein Tomic Caroline, Robert Pichler, Sarah Scholl-Schneider: Remigration to Post-socialist Europe. Introduction, in: Caroline Hornstein Tomic Robert Pichler (ed.): Remigration to Post-socialist Europe. Hopes and Realities of Return, Erste Foundation Series, Wien, Berlin: LIT 2018, http://www.lit-verlag.at/isbn/3-643-91025-7.
  • The fading power of kurbet: A case study of Albanian remigrants to a Macedonian village

    Robert Pichler: The fading power of kurbet: A case study of Albanian remigrants to a Macedonian village, in: Caroline Hornstein Tomic Robert Pichler (ed.): Remigration and Transformation in Post-socialist European Regions, Erste Foundation Series, Wien, Berlin: LIT 2018, S. 22, http://www.lit-verlag.at/isbn/3-643-91025-7.
  • Projektionsfläche Nordalbanien: Bildmächtigkeit und Deutung der Kultur der Berge in Albanien und Österreich in den 1990er Jahren (und heute)

    Pichler Robert: Projektionsfläche Nordalbanien: Bildmächtigkeit und Deutung der Kultur der Berge in Albanien und Österreich in den 1990er Jahren (und heute), in: Bundesministerium Europe Integration und Äußeres (ed.): Gemeinsames NeuEntdecken. Ein Kaleidoskop zur Geschichte und Gegenwart der österreichisch-albanischen Beziehungen, Wien: Eigenverlag des Bundesministeriums Europa, Integration und Äußeres 2018, S. 143-159.
  • Travelling pictures: Remnants of Albanian mountain culture and their changing perception by different audiences

    Pichler Robert: Travelling pictures: Remnants of Albanian mountain culture and their changing perception by different audiences, Science and Video. Des écriture multimedia en science humaines (2017), S. kein "S.", http://scienceandvideo.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/numeros/6/Pages/06.aspx.
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Sonstige

Sonstige

  • Gewaltfreier Widerstand und Staatsbildung in Kosovo 1988—1998

    Pichler Robert; Brestovci: Gewaltfreier Widerstand und Staatsbildung in Kosovo 1988—1998Berlin, 2024, file:///C:/Users/rpichler/Downloads/Ausstellung_Kosovo_Berlin%20(1).pdf.
  • Kioska - temporary architecture and social living environments on the Albanian coast / Kioska - arkitekturë e përkohshme dhe mjedise të jetesës sociale në bregdetin shqiptar

    Robert Pichler: Kioska - temporary architecture and social living environments on the Albanian coast / Kioska - arkitekturë e përkohshme dhe mjedise të jetesës sociale në bregdetin shqiptarShkodra, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BULiaaGHOTw; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16jVkeq4Emg.
  • Kioska - arkitekturë e përkohshme dhe mjedise të jetesës sociale në bregdetin shqiptar

    Robert Pichler: Kioska - arkitekturë e përkohshme dhe mjedise të jetesës sociale në bregdetin shqiptarTirana, 2022, https://twitter.com/AustriainALB/status/1581932468868853760/photo/2.
  • Kioske. Temporäre Architektur und soziale Lebenswelten an der albanischen Küste

    Robert Pichler: Kioske. Temporäre Architektur und soziale Lebenswelten an der albanischen KüsteGraz, 2022, https://offgallery.at/events/opening-kioske/.
  • FAMILJA DHE FAREFISNIA NDËR SHQIPTARËT: KRAHASIME RAJONALE DHE NDËRKULTURORE

    Robert Pichler: FAMILJA DHE FAREFISNIA NDËR SHQIPTARËT: KRAHASIME RAJONALE DHE NDËRKULTUROREShkup: Biblioteka: Ballkanologji, 2019.
  • 'Lebendige Architektur'. Die Strandbuden an Albaniens Küste

    Pichler Robert: 'Lebendige Architektur'. Die Strandbuden an Albaniens Küste, Der Standard (2018), https://derstandard.at/2000079361628/Lebendige-Architektur-Die-Strandbuden-an-Albaniens-Kueste.
  • Migration, Lokalität und ethnischer Konflikt. Eine albanisch-makedonische Fallstudie

    Pichler Robert: Migration, Lokalität und ethnischer Konflikt. Eine albanisch-makedonische Fallstudie, Graz: Karl Franzens Universität Graz 2017.
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Ausstellungen


Publikationen


Contemporary Southeastern Europe 2024, 11 (2) (ed. by Robert Pichler and Elife Krasniqi) | Special issue: Visual Studies in and on Southeast Europe


 

Albania’s 90s


 

Remigration to post-socialist Europe