Quirin Rieder

Quirin is a postdoctoral researcher at LMU Munich, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. He completed his PhD at University of Vienna in 2026. His thesis looked at struggles around uneven access to electricity in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir. During his studies, he also worked on the socio-political implications of infrastructure and energy transitions regarding, for example, energy cooperatives in Germany.

Quirin currently works on a new project on inflation as contested value-shifts, which tries to understand how inflation is made, negotiated, and politicised in everyday life.

Research

Vital Tensions and Political Connections: An Ethnography of Unequal Access to Electricity in Aliabad, Northern Pakistan

Recent Publications

Drinking Tea with the IMF: Sticking to Prices and Protesting Inflation in Aliabad, Northern Pakistan (Focaal Blog)

Living Along Infrastructural Lines: Following Electricity in Hunza, Pakistan. In: One World Anthropology and Beyond: A Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Work of Tim Ingold (ed. Martin Porr & Niels Weidtmann)

Power to Which People? Energiegerechtigkeit und ownership-Strukturen in Energiegenossenschaften. In: Umweltgerechtigkeit und sozialökologische Transformation: Konflikte um Nachhaltigkeit im deutschsprachigen Raum (ed. Silja Klepp & Jonas Hein)

Contact

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Link: https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/people/prae-docs/rieder-quirin/