Research group for the ethnographic inquiry into ecologies, infrastructures, bodies and knowledges
Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations

Milena Bister

Milena Bister

I am Professor of Environmental Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Institute of European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I have been heading the lab since Oct 2023 and have been a member since 2011.

My research focuses on the linkages between multispecies health, anthropogenic climate change, and urban living. I did extensive co-laborative fieldwork on knowledge and governance practices in medical places (psychiatry, palliative care, and dermatology) as well as in community mental healthcare and urban settings. In my current research I explore conceptions of chronic mental illness and urban living at the margins as well as the reinvention of future democratic state institutions such as the Austrian Climate Court of Audit.

Welcome to our group!

Contact: milena.bister@hu-berlin.de

Find me also at: ORCIDResearchGate | Institute for European Ethnology

Publications

2023

Milena D. Bister

Making un/equal: reassessing inequality and mental health through a praxeographic approach on welfare categorization processes Journal Article

In: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2023.

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Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Jörg Niewöhner

Phänomenographie: Zur Rekonstruktion von Erfahrung als Praxis Book Section

In: Martina Röthl, Barbara Sieferle (Ed.): 2023.

2021

Milena D. Bister

Minute/s Work: The Participation of Digital Data Objects in the Conjuncture and Disjuncture of Policy and Care Book Section

In: Svalastog, Anna Lydia; Gajović, Srećko; Webster, Andrew (Ed.): Navigating Digital Health Landscapes: A Multidisciplinary Analysis, pp. 151-171, 2021.

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Patrick Bieler, Milena D. Bister, Christine Schmid

Formate des Ko-Laborierens. Geteilte epistemische Arbeit als katalytische Praxis Journal Article

In: Berliner Blätter: ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge, vol. 83, pp. 87-105, 2021.

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Milena D. Bister

Gesundheitliches Gut-achten als soziomaterieller Prozess: Eine Praxeografie der Zuerkennung von gemeindepsychiatrischen Leistungen in Berlin Journal Article

In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 157-178, 2021.

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2020

Patrick Bieler, Milena D. Bister, Janine Hauer, Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner, Christine Schmid, Sebastian von Peter

Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography Journal Article

In: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2020.

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Milena D. Bister

Moving and mapping (with) Actor-Network Theory (Review: Blok, A, Farías, I., & Roberts, C. (eds) (2019) The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory, London: Routledge.) Journal Article

In: ephemera. theory and politics in organization, 2020.

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Petra Beck, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Adina Dymczyk, Janine Hauer, Anna Heitger, Dženeta Hodžić, Ruzana Liburkina, Stefan Reinsch, Tim Seitz, Christine Schmid, Krystin Unverzagt

Rezension zu: Groth, Stefan; Ritter, Christian (Hrsg.): Zusammen arbeiten. Praktiken der Koordination und Kooperation in kollaborativen Prozessen. Bielefeld 2019 Journal Article

In: H-Soz-Kult, 2020.

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2019

Simon Gallinger, Natalie Jankowski, Milena D. Bister, Sandra Korge, Astrid Trachterna, Stefan Hildebrand, Tamer Oruc, Jörg Niewöhner, and Urte Heitman, Robert Downes, Marc Kraft

Development of a modular Decubitus Prophylaxis System: DekuProSys Journal Article

In: Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 277-280, 2019.

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Jörg Niewöhner, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Ruzana Liburkina, Julie Sascia Mewes, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz (Ed.)

After Practice. Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally. Volume I Collection

Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2019.

Jörg Niewöhner, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Ruzana Liburkina, Julie Sascia Mewes, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz (Ed.)

After Practice. Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally. Volume II Collection

Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2019.

Sabine Biedermann, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Sascha Cornejo Puschner, Adina Dymczyk, Dennis Eckhardt, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Dženeta Hodžić, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Céline Lauer, Ruzana Liburkina, Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Reinsch, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz, Itzell Torres, Krystin Unverzagt, Jorge E. Vega-Marrot

Current work in the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations: Doing research in a more-than-thought collective Journal Article

In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.

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Sabine Biedermann, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Sascha Cornejo Puschner, Adina Dymczyk, Dennis Eckhardt, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Dženeta Hodžić, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Céline Lauer, Ruzana Liburkina, Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Reinsch, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz, Itzell Torres, Krystin Unverzagt, Jorge E. Vega-Marrot

From the Collaboratory Social Anthropology & Life Sciences to the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations Journal Article

In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.

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2018

Milena D. Bister

The concept of chronicity in action: Everyday classification practices and the shaping of mental health care Journal Article

In: Sociology of Health & Illness, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 38–52, 2018, (online version published on October 5, 2017).

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2016

Sebastian von Peter, Alexandre Wullschleger, Lieselotte Mahler, Ingrid Munk, Manfred Zaumseil, Jörg Niewöhner, Martina Klausner, Milena Bister, Andreas Heinz, Stefan Beck

Chronizität im Alltag der psychiatrischen Versorgung: Eine Forschungskollaboration zwischen Sozialpsychiatrie und Europäischer Ethnologie Journal Article

In: Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 7–18, 2016.

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Milena Bister, Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner

The cosmopolitics of "niching": Rendering the city habitable along infrastructures of mental health care Book Section

In: Anders Blok, Ignacio Farías (Ed.): Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres, pp. 187–206, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2016.

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2015

Martina Klausner, Milena Bister, Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Beck

Choreografien klinischer und städtischer Alltage: Ergebnisse einer ko-laborativen Ethnografie mit der Sozialpsychiatrie Journal Article

In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 214–235, 2015.

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2014

Milena Bister, Jörg Niewöhner (Ed.)

Alltag in der Psychiatrie im Wandel: Ethnographische Perspektiven auf Wissen, Technologie und Autonomie Collection

Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2014.

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2011

Milena D. Bister

Discovering informed consent: A case study on the practice of informed consent to tissue donation in Austria Book Section

In: Christian Lenk, Nils Hoppe, Katharina Beier und Claudia Wiesemann (Ed.): Human Tissue Research: A Discussion of the Ethical and Legal Challenges from a European Perspective, pp. 169–178, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011.

2009

Milena D. Bister

„Jemand kommt zu Dir und sagt bitte“: Eine empirische Studie zur Gewebespende im Krankenhauskontext Journal Article

In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 72–78, 2009.

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Ulrike Felt, Milena D. Bister, Michael Strassnig, Ursula Wagner

Refusing the Information Paradigm: Informed Consent, Medical Research, and Patient Participation Journal Article

In: Health, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 87–106, 2009.

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2008

Milena D. Bister, Ulrike Felt, Michael Strassnig und Ursula Wagner

Zeit und Partizipation im transdisziplinären Forschungsprozess Book Section

In: Elisabeth Reitinger (Ed.): Transdisziplinäre Praxis: Forschen im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen, pp. 35–46, Carl-Auer, Heidelberg, 2008.