As a trained anthropologist I conduct ethnographic research on science, technology and society with a particular focus on how modern life affects human and planetary health. In my previous work on urban mental health I have developed a heuristic to study the relational constitution of human-(urban) environment relations to foster interdisciplinary co-laboration between ethnographic and psychiatric research. Together with my colleagues, I am currently designing an ethnographic research project on green/sustainable chemistry as part of the research programme „Knowledge after Progress“ (www.knowledgeafterprogress.org).
2011: B.A. in European Ethnology & Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2015: M.A. in European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2024: Ph.D. in European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (thesis defended)
Monograph
Bieler, Patrick (2024): Urbane Psyche: Alltagsgestaltung und Biopolitik in Berlin aus ethnografischer Perspektive. Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus.
Journal Articles
Rispoli, Micol, Tomás Criado & Patrick Bieler (2023): »Learning with others about neurodiverse spatial practice.« In: GeoAgenda 2/2023, 28–29.
Bieler, Patrick (2022): »Inter- und transdisziplinäre Forschung zum Zusammenhang urbanen Lebens und psychischer Gesundheit: Ein gesellschaftswissenschaftlicher Kommentar.« In: sozialpsychiatrische informationen 52 (4), 12–16.
Davies, Sarah R, Tereza Stöckelová, Fredy Mora Gámez, Roos Hopman, Patrick Bieler & workshop participants (2022): »STS in context: Provincialising STS from central Europe.« In: EASST Review 41 (3).
www.easst.net/article/sts-in-context-provincialising-sts-from-central-europe/
Bieler, Patrick (2021): »Wohnungs- und Obdachlosigkeit als Herausforderung (und Chance!?) der Eingliederungshilfe.« In: sozialpsychiatrische informationen 51 (2), 40–44.
Bieler, Patrick, Milena D. Bister, Janine Hauer, Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner, Christine Schmid & Sebastian von Peter (2021): »Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography.« In: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 50 (1), 77–98.
Bieler, Patrick, Milena D. Bister & Christine Schmid (2021): »Formate des Ko-laborierens: Geteilte epistemische Arbeit als katalytische Praxis.« In: Berliner Blätter 83, 87–105.
Bieler, Patrick, Lauren Cubellis, Jonna Josties, Anja Klein, Jörg Niewöhner & Christine Schmid (2021): »Ethnografische Theorie ko-laborativ fügen.« In: Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie 13, 522–555.
Bieler, Patrick & Martina Klausner (2019): »Niching in cities under pressure. Tracing the reconfiguration of community psychiatric care and the housing market in Berlin.« In: Geoforum 101, 202–211.
Otto, Laura, Sarah Nimführ & Patrick Bieler (2019): »Preserving Maltese Identity in Refugee Management: On the Emergence and Absence of a Prison Spatiality.« In: Shima 13 (2), 135–154.
Bieler, Patrick (2017): »Developing a Relational Perspective on Urban Mental Health.« In: GeoAgenda 2/2017, 19–21.
von Peter, Sebastian & Patrick Bieler (2017): »How to Study Chronic Diseases—Implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for Research Designs.« In: Frontiers in Public Health 5 (88).
Niewöhner, Jörg, Patrick Bieler, Maren Heibges & Martina Klausner (2016): »Phenomenography: Relational Investigations into Modes of Being-in-the-World.« In: The Cyprus Review 28 (1), 67–84.
Book Chapters
Bieler, Patrick, Milena D. Bister & Jörg Niewöhner (2023): »Phänomenographie: Zur Rekonstruktion von Erfahrung als Praxis.« In: Martina Röthl und Barbara Sieferle (Eds.): Erfahrung – Kulturanalytische Relationierungen. Münster/ New York: Waxmann, 59–78.
Bieler, Patrick (2021): »Situated Withnessing in/as Intervention: Co-Laborative, Ethnographic Long-Term Research with Social Psychiatry.« In: Kathrin Eitel, Laura Otto, Martina Klausner & Gisela Welz (Eds.): Interventions with/in Ethnography: Experiments, Collaborations, Epistemic Effects (Kulturanthro-pologie Notizen 83). Frankfurt/Main: Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie, 43–57.
Bieler, Patrick & Martina Klausner (2019): »Iterative Go-alongs: Eine ethnografische Methode zur Erforschung des Zusammenspiels von psychischen Beeinträchtigungen und städtischer Umwelt.« In: Silvia Krumm, Reinhold Kilian und Heiko Löwenstein (Eds.): Qualitative Forschung in der Sozialpsychiatrie: Eine Einführung in Methodik und Praxis. Köln: Psychiatrie Verlag, 173–183.
Bieler, Patrick & Jörg Niewöhner (2018): »Universal Biology, Local Society? Notes from Anthropology.« In: Maurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald und Stephanie Lloyd (Eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 641–662.
Blog posts
Bieler, Patrick & Jörg Niewöhner (2024): Knowledge after Progress: Re-assembling life
through socio-molecular studies. https://biosocieties.org/knowledge-after-progress/
Reviews
Bieler, Patrick & Christine Schmid (2020): »Julie Sascia Mewes: Alltagswerkstatt. Alltagsbefähigungspraktiken in der psychiatrischen Ergotherapie.« In: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 2020, 155–156.
Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations (2018): »Assembling Comparators – Assembling Reflexivities.« In: Science as Culture 27 (4), 563–568.
Edited Volumes
Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations (Ed.) (2019a): After Practice. Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally (Volume I) (Berliner Blätter, Heft 80). Berlin: Panama Verlag.
Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations (Ed.) (2019b): After Practice. Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally (Volume II) (Berliner Blätter, Heft 81). Berlin: Panama Verlag.
Summer 2024:
M.A. (STS & RESET): Ethnography of Chemicals, (Green) Chemistry & Society
Graduate Seminar: Politics and Ethics of STS Research (with Jörg Niewöhner)
Winter 2023/24:
M.A. (STS & RESET): Making a Mess with Methods
M.A. (RESET): Dis/abling Cities: (How) can technology and (infrastructural) design improve everyday life in cities? (Immersion Project) (with Jörg Niewöhner)
Bieler, Patrick (2024): »Encountering as ecological boundary object for urban mental health research.« Urban Mental Health and the Exposome Early Career Research workshop event, University College London.
Bieler, Patrick (2023): »BioÖkologien des Begegnens: Zur relationalen Konstitution urbanen Lebens und psychischer Gesundheit.« Analysen des Alltags: Komplexität. Konjunktur. Krise – 44. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW), Dortmund.
Bieler, Patrick (2022): »Urban mental health beyond social relationships? Encountering as a heuristic for co-laborative interdisciplinary engagements between anthropology and psychiatry.« Politics of Psychic Life. Culture and Community Mental Health Speakers Series, McGill University, Montréal.
Bieler, Patrick (2022): »Epidemiography: Studying urban mental health risks based on observatory data.« 4S/ESOCITE 2nd Joint Meeting: Reunion. Recuperation. Reconfiguration: Knowledges and technosciences for living together, Cholula.
Bieler, Patrick (2020): »Intervenieren mit dem Feld: Ko-laborative, ethnografische Langzeitforschung mit der Sozialpsychiatrie.« Ethnographic Interventions & Experimental Collaborations: Anthropology Engaging with Diverse Publics (Lecture Series), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt/Main.
Bieler, Patrick (2018): »New cooperation between social psychiatry and the housing industry in Berlin: ethnographic encounters with the field between politically and conceptually committed research.« EASST 2018: Meetings – Making Science, Technology and Society together, Lancaster.
- Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW)
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
- stsing: Doing STS in and through Germany
- Knowledge after Progress
- Biosocial Birth Cohort Research Network
- Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations (associated)