Mag. Katharina Gartner, MA

Katharina Gartner is a reseacher and lecturer on expressive cultures, with a special interest in youth and adolescence, music(king), and urban Africa.

Lecturer at the Departments of African Studies, Education, Musicology, and Anthropology, University of Vienna
External Lecturer, Vienna University of Economics and Business, NextGenBuddies

Research Scholar, Harvard University, 2022
https://africa.harvard.edu/event/african-studies-workshop-featuring-sean-jacobs?delta=0

Research Fellow and Lecturer, University of Ghana, 2020, 2021-22

IFK_Junior Fellow (+ Abroad), International Research Center for Cultural Studies, 2021-22
https://www.ifk.ac.at/fellows-detail-en/katharina-gartner.html

LATEST PUBLICATION:
Gartner, Katharina (2025): "Vom Sinn des Unsinns. Psychoanalytische Entdeckungen zum Spiel.” In: Neudecker, Barbara, Lehner, Barbara und Trunkenpolz, Kathrin (Hrsg.): Pädagogische Beziehungen verstehen und gestalten. Anregungen für die Arbeit mit Kindern, Jugendlichen und ihren Eltern aus der Psychoanalytischen Pädagogik. Psychosozial-Verlag, 189-220.

OPEN ACCESS:
Gartner, Katharina (2021): "Shiny shabomen. Young Instrumental Musicians in Accra, and Performances of Masculinities in Popular Music." Gender, Place & Culture, 28/6, 806-828, 23pp.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0966369X.2020.1786016