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Special issue: Rural development
Other 11 Dec 2014
Other | 11 Dec 2014
T. Rauch et al.
geopoliticsor the
Cold Warthe manuscript draws on media discourses of the past 75 years to show which phases of emergence, disappearance, and reactualization they go through and how the long-lasting discursive
archives of geopoliticspowerfully weave themselves into current geopolitical representations.
geographicity of lawwill be developed in order to answer this question in a dialogue between the current spatial turn of legal studies and the already existing
legal geography. Especially, the realms of public space and urbanity will be addressed.
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.
foamfrom Sloterdijk to address these fluid spatialities.
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.
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.
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.
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.