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Articles | Volume 69, issue 4
Geogr. Helv., 69, 225–226, 2014
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Special issue: Rural development
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Geogr. Helv., 76, 1–16, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-1-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-1-2021, 2021
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Hartmut Fünfgeld and Benedikt Schmid
Geogr. Helv., 75, 437–449, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-437-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-437-2020, 2020
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Josep Maria Antentas
Geogr. Helv., 75, 431–436, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-431-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-431-2020, 2020
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Celia Ruiz-de-Oña Plaza
Geogr. Helv., 75, 403–414, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-403-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-403-2020, 2020
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Johannes Theodor Aalders, Anne Moraa, Naddya Adhiambo Oluoch-Olunya, and Daniel Muli
Geogr. Helv., 75, 415–430, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-415-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-415-2020, 2020
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Alexis Metzger and Jonathan Bussard
Geogr. Helv., 75, 393–401, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-393-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-393-2020, 2020
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Luciana Mendes Barbosa and Gordon Walker
Geogr. Helv., 75, 381–391, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-381-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-381-2020, 2020
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Bernd Belina
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Rossella Alba, Silja Klepp, and Antje Bruns
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Mathis Stock
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legal geography. Especially, the realms of public space and urbanity will be addressed.
Dennis Pauschinger and Francisco Klauser
Geogr. Helv., 75, 325–336, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-325-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-325-2020, 2020
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Juliet J. Fall
Geogr. Helv., 75, 337–348, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-337-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-337-2020, 2020
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Matthew G. Hannah
Geogr. Helv., 75, 319–324, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-319-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-319-2020, 2020
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Mara Linden
Geogr. Helv., 75, 307–313, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-307-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-307-2020, 2020
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This intervention follows the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. With both health and the economy as central to this crisis, besides each amplifying the other, in some regards, the two also might stand in conflict. However, both are delivering a number of consequences for humans in different regions and life circumstances across the globe. With the help of several examples, this paper sets out to visualize the unequal distribution of duties, strains, exposure and aftermath of the current health crisis.
Angela Stienen
Geogr. Helv., 75, 285–306, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-285-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-285-2020, 2020
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The Latin American debate on
territoryis observed through the lens of the
territorial-peaceapproach in the peace accord between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas in 2016. The rural bias of this approach is confronted with territorial peacebuilding in Colombia's second city, Medellín, back in the 1990s. Extending this approach to urban contexts requires distinguishing between
territorial peaceas a political project and as an unpredictable process of territorialisation.
Sarah Widmer and Francisco Klauser
Geogr. Helv., 75, 259–269, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-259-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-259-2020, 2020
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foamfrom Sloterdijk to address these fluid spatialities.
Jennifer Barella
Geogr. Helv., 75, 271–284, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-271-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-271-2020, 2020
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Cet article interroge de manière critique le cadrage théorique de la cartographie participative en tant qu’outil pour réaliser l’idéal d’émancipation de la justice sociale. Il questionne la manière dont les impacts sociaux et politiques de ces pratiques sont appréhendés. Cette discussion se base sur l’expérience de l’auteure dans un projet de cartographie participative mené en collaboration avec une ONG locale et les résident.es d’un quartier informel à Khayelitsha (Afrique du Sud).
Christian Smigiel
Geogr. Helv., 75, 253–257, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-253-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-253-2020, 2020
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This article deals with one of the most controversial topics in urban studies related to mobile capital and mobile people. At first glance this seems to be contradictory since numbers of short-term rentals have decreased dramatically due to the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. However, this paper is not about numbers and statistics. Instead it discusses structural issues regarding governance and power relations, which remain important topics, especially in times of crisis. It provides insight.
Stephan Bosch and Matthias Schmidt
Geogr. Helv., 75, 235–251, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-235-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-235-2020, 2020
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The study analyses the social dimensions of energy landscapes. Furthermore, it will be discussed whether and how energy landscapes can be distinguished from other landscapes. It becomes clear that infrastructure measures for climate protection only appear socially viable if the production of sustainable energy landscapes is understood as the production of a discourse about sustainability, equality, and justice.
Jan Kemper and Anne Vogelpohl
Geogr. Helv., 75, 221–233, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-221-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-221-2020, 2020
Ulf Strohmayer
Geogr. Helv., 75, 215–219, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-215-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-215-2020, 2020
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This intervention into the ongoing evaluation of
Kiel 1969within german-speaking human geography adds a personal voice to those debates. The focus of the paper is on practices defining the Department of Geography at the Technical University Munich during the 1980s. Discussing research and teaching, structures and personalities defining
geographyat this institution, the paper positions the
revolutionostensibly emanating from the 1969 Geographentag in the context of everyday experiences.
Peter Dirksmeier
Geogr. Helv., 75, 209–213, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-209-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-209-2020, 2020
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The paper contributes to the discourse on super- and hyper-diversity in contemporary cities in the global North. The paper calls attention to what is called neuguineaisation as a separateness of the urban population that accompanies current forms of diversity. This new urban reality claims for empirical investigations of the societal implication of this phenomenon especially with regard to social cohesion in contemporary cities.
Madlen Pilz
Geogr. Helv., 75, 195–208, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-195-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-195-2020, 2020
Felix M. Dorn and Christoph Huber
Geogr. Helv., 75, 183–193, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-183-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-183-2020, 2020
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This article examines how to adapt the global production network (GPN) approach to situations of natural resource extraction. Therefore, we integrate a political ecology perspective into GPN research. The integrated framework helps to move away from merely economic analyses and to identify the underlying emergence of unilateral dependencies, declines of social autonomy and the unequal distribution of environmental risks.
Helmut Klüter
Geogr. Helv., 75, 151–167, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-151-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-151-2020, 2020
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Am 18. Januar 2017 beschloss der Senat der Universität Greifswald die 1933 verordnete Benennung nach Ernst Moritz Arndt zu streichen und zum ursprünglichen Hochschulnamen zurückzukehren. Dies nahmen rechts orientierte politische Gruppen zum Anlass, gegen die Rückbenennung und für den Verfasser militaristischer, juden- und ausländerfeindlicher Schriften eine Kampagne um vorpommersche Identität zu starten. Erst nach einem Jahr gelang es, die Krise diskursiv beizulegen.
Daniel Baehler and Patrick Rérat
Geogr. Helv., 75, 169–181, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-169-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-169-2020, 2020
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More and more initiatives are being taken to encourage a transition towards low-carbon mobility. One of these is car-free housing, where residents commit to living without a private car. A survey and interviews in nine car-free housing developments show an overrepresentation of families and people with a high level of education. Residents refer to practical reasons but also ecological awareness and social values in explaining their motivations and long-term commitment to living car-free.
Oscar Schmidt and Manuel Rivera
Geogr. Helv., 75, 139–150, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-139-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-139-2020, 2020
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In debates on deep-seabed mining (DSM), contrasting stories on mining carry different degrees of narrative potency and thus of potential discursive influence. We trace dominant discursive positions and their narrative structures to explain their relative success or failure. A successful narrative critique on DSM requires more pronounced depictions of the negative consequences in particular for humans, exposing the politics in policy making and offering captivating stories on alternatives.
Julian Schwabe and Markus Hassler
Geogr. Helv., 75, 123–134, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-123-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-123-2020, 2020
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With electrified and connected vehicles, the automotive industry is undergoing transitions which affect technical service companies. This article explores (1) how IT and engineering services for automotive applications are organized and (2) how current transitions affect their position vis-à-vis manufacturers. Depending on characteristics of an input and exposure to competition, technical services show organizationally fragmented patterns, while spatial dislocation plays a relatively minor role.
Katja Thiele
Geogr. Helv., 75, 107–122, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-107-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-107-2020, 2020
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Based on empirical results from Bonn, the paper discusses the development of public libraries between digitization and austerity. The results published here are part of the research project „Öffentliche Bibliotheken im Spannungsfeld von Finanzknappheit und kommunaler Daseinsvorsorge“ at the University of Bonn, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Starting from a multi-level perspective, the project compares three local case studies in Europe with a qualitative mix of methods.
Robert Pütz and Antje Schlottmann
Geogr. Helv., 75, 93–106, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-93-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-93-2020, 2020
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Based on qualitative fieldwork we analyse the struggles that enfold around the predicted extinction of a herd of wild horses in the Namib Desert. Our investigation shows that the conflictual border work around questions of whether and with what means humans should intervene appears also as an incorporated practice of subjects. Thus, we suggest repositioning research and nature conservation practice towards learning about, and with, the lived bodies of all actors involved.
Florian Dünckmann
Geogr. Helv., 75, 81–91, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-81-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-81-2020, 2020
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The article argues for a Political Geography that takes the acutal practices of
doing politicsas its main point of interest. With the help of Hannah Arendt's philosophy analyzes the way in which these political practices are tied to particular places and their material equipment. Far from being limited to parliament or government buildings, the political permeates the web of our everyday life and the spaces in which it transpires.
Leonard Creutzburg, Tamaki Ohmura, and Eva Lieberherr
Geogr. Helv., 75, 69–80, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-69-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-69-2020, 2020
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In Switzerland and other European countries, (small-scale) private forest owners increasingly refrain from managing their forests. However, forest management is key for meeting several ecological, social and economic aims. Against this backdrop, this paper proposes a Swiss forest gift programme inspired by the Ecological Gifts Program (EGP) in Canada, which would result in a change of forest ownership so that forests could subsequently be managed sustainably to meet the various demands.
Carolin Schurr and Peter Weichhart
Geogr. Helv., 75, 53–67, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-53-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-53-2020, 2020
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Analyzing the development of theoretical debates in geography over the last decades, Peter Weichhart criticizes the growing fragmentation of theoretical discussions in the discipline. Carolin Schurr questions his search for a new center, arguing that many of geography's key concepts have been challenged from the margins of society and the discipline. The future of geographic research lies for both in an increasing engagement with questions of social justice.
Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch
Geogr. Helv., 75, 41–51, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-41-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-41-2020, 2020
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English-speaking hegemony shapes the geography of legitimate knowledge production, pushing geographies in other languages to the periphery, overshadowing their diversity and what is at stake within them. Continental European geographies have been provincialized. This should not be lamented. Given our colonial past and Northern privilege, we should instead embrace this provincialization as long overdue and a moral imperative, taking steps toward a more ethical and cosmopolitan praxis.
Moritz Rinn and Lena Wiese
Geogr. Helv., 75, 23–36, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-23-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-23-2020, 2020
Anke Schwarz and Monika Streule
Geogr. Helv., 75, 11–18, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-11-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-11-2020, 2020
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This paper is an introduction to the special issue
Contested urban territories: decolonized perspectives. Combining six articles and one interview, we examine how a relational notion of territory, territorialization, and territoriality opens up new grounds for critical urban research. The special issue is an invitation to explore new concepts and engage in a critical reflection on the conditions of knowledge production in urban geography and beyond.
Felicitas Hillmann
Geogr. Helv., 74, 303–314, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-303-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-303-2019, 2019
Susan Thieme, Philipp Eyer, and Alexander Vorbrugg
Geogr. Helv., 74, 293–297, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-293-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-293-2019, 2019
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In this article we discuss current developments, possibilities and challenges around working with film. We describe possibilities how using film in teaching can go beyond film analysis and a mere add-on to communicate research results, but rather can stimulate new forms of reflexivity and creativity along research and teaching processes. We further show how the emergence of digital and physical platforms such as a media laboratory can enable and support exchange on film and other digital media.
Christina West
Geogr. Helv., 74, 261–272, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-261-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-261-2019, 2019
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transversal cityand
transtopiaare developed for conceptually and empirically rethinking urban future. Transversality is conceptualized, analyzed, and differentiated by identification of four main characteristic discursive moments. The changed modes of knowledge production and their consequences for social justice, sustainable development, the evolution of a new processuality of governance, politics, and production of the urban are discussed.
Claudia Maria López
Geogr. Helv., 74, 249–259, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-249-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-249-2019, 2019
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This article offers an example of how displaced farmers respond to cycles of de-territorialization and re-territorialization under globalization. Drawing from ethnographic interviews with displaced leaders of socio-territorial movements in Medellín, Colombia, I find that leaders understand and practice territorial production as a emotionally charged political process. By foregrounding urban reterritorialization, this study highlights how the migrants create their own spaces of belonging.
Andreas Van-Hametner, Christian Smigiel, Karolin Kautzschmann, and Christian Zeller
Geogr. Helv., 74, 235–248, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-235-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-235-2019, 2019
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Institutionelle und private Anleger_innen investieren seit der Wirtschaftskrise verstärkt in Immobilien, und das nicht nur in Großstädten, sondern auch in Mittel- und Kleinstädten. Die dadurch steigenden Wohnkosten belasten viele Haushalte in den Städten Europas. In stark touristisch geprägten Städten Salzburg ist der Wohnungsmarkt zusätzlich unter Druck. (Massen-)Tourismus und Finanzanlagen werden oft nur getrennt behandelt. Wir haben die beiden Phänomene in Salzburg gemeinsam betrachtet.
Anke Strüver
Geogr. Helv., 74, 223–233, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-223-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-223-2019, 2019
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This article concentrates on crises within social geography and discusses the geography of social crises using the example of environmental injustice and the somatization of the environment with respect to food and health. By extending the surface view on embodied subjects as being socio-culturally encoded and discursively normalized, metabolic processes are also addressed. The body is understood as the place where social crises, structures of inequality and discursive categories materialize.
Günther Weiss, Francesca Adam, Stefanie Föbker, Daniela Imani, Carmella Pfaffenbach, and Claus-Christian Wiegandt
Geogr. Helv., 74, 205–221, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-205-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-205-2019, 2019
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In dem vorliegenden Artikel wir auf Grundlage von Leitfadeninterviews in der Stadt Köln und dem Landkreis Heinsberg der Frage nachgegangen, welche Vorstellungen auf der einen Seite die FluchtmigrantInnen selbst über ihre „Integration“ in Deutschland haben und welche Vorstellungen bei den Personen vorliegen, welche beruflich oder ehrenamtlich mit der Betreuung neu zugewanderter Geflüchteter zu tun haben.
Benedikt Korf
Geogr. Helv., 74, 193–204, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-193-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-193-2019, 2019
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This paper critically examines critical geography’s moralizing high ground. The paper makes this critique through a detour via the analyse of the critical gesture of the Greek cynics that the philosophers Foucault and Sloterdijk take to be a political practice of provocative truth-telling: For Foucault and Sloterdijk, the cynics are anti-dogmatic, anti-theoretical and anti-scholastic. I will argue, however, that the cynic is in danger of speaking from the moral high ground of an anti-critique.
Nina Berding
Geogr. Helv., 74, 183–192, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-183-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-183-2019, 2019
Kirsten Linnemann
Geogr. Helv., 74, 167–181, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-167-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-167-2019, 2019
Liz Mason-Deese, Victoria Habermehl, and Nick Clare
Geogr. Helv., 74, 153–161, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-153-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-153-2019, 2019
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This paper analyzes the territorial organizing of two social movements in Greater Buenos Aires, showing how urban struggles produce territory as a key element of their political practice and foreground an alternative to state-centric models of territorial politics. First, unemployed workers’ movements show how the territorial organization of production and reproduction create new social relations, and that an assembly-based solidarity economy market emphasizes the relationality of territory.
Klaus Geiselhart and Tobias Häberer
Geogr. Helv., 74, 113–124, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-113-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-113-2019, 2019
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Der Subjektbegriff ist der Schlüssel zum Verständnis des Menschen und seiner Handlungsfähigkeit. Begreift man den Menschen als rein durch die gesellschaftlichen Strukturen geprägt, dann kann man einzelnen Personen kaum Verantwortung zuschreiben. Wie aber lässt sich die Verantwortung des Einzelnen denken? Wie lässt sich die Rolle des Geistes, also der Fähigkeit zu bewusstem Denken, über die wir ja zu verfügen glauben, konzipieren.
Monika Streule and Anke Schwarz
Geogr. Helv., 74, 105–111, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-105-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-105-2019, 2019
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In our interview with the Uruguayan researcher, journalist, and activist Raúl Zibechi, we discuss current socioterritorial movements in Latin America and beyond, the emergence of new subjects through practices of territorialization, and links between extractive geographies and the urban context. The interview is part of the theme issue "Contested Urban Territories: Decolonized Perspectives", wherein we examine how a relational notion of territory opens up new grounds for critical urban research.
Olfa Raja Meziou
Geogr. Helv., 74, 71–79, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-71-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-71-2019, 2019
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