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Volume 72, issue 2
Geogr. Helv., 72, 243–254, 2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-243-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-243-2017
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Geogr. Helv., 72, 243–254, 2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-243-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-243-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Standard article 13 Jun 2017
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Interpreting mega-development projects as territorial traps: the case of irrigation schemes on the shores of Lake Chad (Borno State, Nigeria)
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Robert Pütz and Antje Schlottmann
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Myriam Houssay-Holzschuch
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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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Felicitas Hillmann
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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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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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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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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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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
Zoé Codeluppi
Geogr. Helv., 74, 41–58, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-41-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-41-2019, 2019
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This paper intent to bring to light urban practices of young people living with a diagnosis of psychosis while recovering. My work points out the diversity of urban spaces inhabited by participants during the recovery process which includes institutional space private, as well as public places. I then highlight the continuous variability of symptoms over the recovery period implies alternately practices of withdrawal and reconquest of the urban space, as the recovery process is moving forward.
Alicia Lindón
Geogr. Helv., 74, 31–39, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-31-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-31-2019, 2019
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The subject is the city understood as a lived territory: it develops a theoretical–methodological approach to the sociospatial construction of urban territory. The first part presents the spatial practices and the urban imaginaries. The second part integrates the territorialization of affectivity. The third part considers urban scenarios. Individual topological networks are then incorporated as sequences of urban scenarios, leading on to the crisscrossing of different topological networks.
Vera Smirnova
Geogr. Helv., 74, 13–25, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-13-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-13-2019, 2019
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This paper examines territorial practices of enclosure in the Russian land commune. Using archival research, it explores how the state and territory in the periphery were dialectically co-produced through spatial technologies and public discourses. This work brings a territorial dimension into Russian agrarian scholarship by positioning the imperial rural politics within the context of capitalist land enclosure, thereby introducing complexity into the state-centric Western territory debate.
Charlotte Räuchle and Henning Nuissl
Geogr. Helv., 74, 1–12, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-1-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-74-1-2019, 2019
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post-migrantperspective. In the end, various challenges remain on how to deal with
migrant economiesin political and academic practice.
Marcos Aurelio Saquet
Geogr. Helv., 73, 347–355, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-347-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-347-2018, 2018
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I will develop a specific definition of territory, which seeks to become operative in collaboration with diverse subjects and in the analysis of territorial development based on the place. I show how this fairer society emerges in a multidimensional way, emanating from the processes of territorialization, deterritorialization, and reterritorialization. Finally, I link these processes with the current processes of territorial development in research, analysis, and active participation.
Jacqueline Frick, Nicole Bauer, Eike von Lindern, and Marcel Hunziker
Geogr. Helv., 73, 335–345, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-335-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-335-2018, 2018
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This paper is about residents’ perceptions, evaluations, and preferences regarding forests, 3022 residents completed the Swiss Socio-cultural Forest Monitoring (WaMos). Respondents were well informed about forest issues. Forest functions such as wood production, air quality, and biodiversity were rated as more important than recreation. Mixed forests and multi-sensory experiences were preferred; wilderness was only moderately approved of.
Matthias Lahr-Kurten
Geogr. Helv., 73, 321–333, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-321-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-321-2018, 2018
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In Germany each year, thousands of children are born extremely prematurely. Despite being sites of enormous human suffering und huge financial costs, the places of treatment of these babies are almost non-existent in societal discourse. In order to understand these places which seem isolated from the rest of society, but are tightly connected to it, a ,dense description‘ of a single ,NICU‘ will be given – based on a stay by the author, drawing on the practice theoretical approach of Schatzki.
Jürgen Oßenbrügge
Geogr. Helv., 73, 309–319, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-309-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-309-2018, 2018
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The paper outlines an approach to right wing populism in recent years not only in critizing the use of so called alternative facts but using the concept of a regressive modernisation as a debate which includes populist movements into a broader diagnosis of western societies. These findings are used in order to explain transformations of social geography. It is argued that the success of postmodern geographies is unable to counteract geographies of recent right wing populism.
Boris Michel and Katharina Paulus
Geogr. Helv., 73, 301–307, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-301-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-301-2018, 2018
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This editorial provides a theoretical and contextual framework for the themed issue
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Georg Glasze and Thomas M. Schmitt
Geogr. Helv., 73, 285–300, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-285-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-285-2018, 2018
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For a long time, the mainstream of social and cultural geography seems to have implicitly accepted that religion is becoming obsolete. However, since the 1990s, religion has aroused new interest in the social sciences in general, and to some extent also in social and cultural geography. The paper introduces the interdisciplinary debate on theories of secularisation and the promotion of post-secular perspectives and shows the potential of this debate for social and cultural geography.
Huib Ernste
Geogr. Helv., 73, 273–284, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-273-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-273-2018, 2018
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With his magnum opus on Spheres, Peter Sloterdijk introduces a critical philosophical and cultural view on the spatiality of current society. In this contribution we elaborate on the spatial metaphor Sloterdijk uses but also scrutinise Sloterdijk's ideas by drawing some parallels between his ideas and those of other philosophical anthropological thinkers. Finally, we very briefly point to a suitable conceptual framework for investigating the spherology of a human being in the world.
Tobias Boos and Simon Runkel
Geogr. Helv., 73, 261–272, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-261-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-261-2018, 2018
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This article serves as introduction for a themed issue on Peter Sloterdijk's enormous philosophy of space. The paper gives some orientation on the anthropological and social philosophy Sloterdijk deploys within his oeuvre, and illuminates the various fields of social and cultural research his ideas have informed so far. The article also discusses the necessity of a critical distance to the philosophical premises on which Sloterdijk grounds his philosophy.
Muriel Côte, Flurina Wartmann, and Ross Purves
Geogr. Helv., 73, 253–260, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-253-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-253-2018, 2018
Friederike Enßle and Ilse Helbrecht
Geogr. Helv., 73, 227–239, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-227-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-227-2018, 2018
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This article argues for a spatial research methodology to better understand the interplay of inequality, intersectionality and age(ing). Drawing on places such as nursing homes or housing projects, the article scrutinizes the negotiation of old age in different spatial contexts, and how this is linked to other markers of difference, e.g. gender or ethnicity. On a larger scale, the article points to the potential of a spatial methodology to approach the complexity of intersectionality.
Niels Werber
Geogr. Helv., 73, 215–224, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-215-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-215-2018, 2018
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The infamous idea that the area east of the borders of the German Reich be a “space without a people” imposing itself for occupation by “a people without space” accounts for the ominously looming convictions of German Geopolitics during the years of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. This contribution attributes the conception of the so called “German East” as uncultivated “slavic sahara” or “desert” to 19th Century novels and reads geopolitical classics as continuation of this literature.
Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm
Geogr. Helv., 73, 203–213, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-203-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-203-2018, 2018
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During recent decades, consumption-oriented spaces of comfort and hospitality have proliferated, including, for instance, lounge shopping malls, food court plazas, spas, entertainment retail, visitor centres and the development of ever-larger pedestrian precincts. In this article we explore shopping malls as capitalist domes in Sloterdijk's sense. We observe atmospheric production, atmospheric management and atmospheric culture (which we propose to call atmoculture) inside such domes.
Jasmine Truong
Geogr. Helv., 73, 193–201, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-193-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-193-2018, 2018
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This article examines young people's night out experiences extending through digital spaces of social relations such as WhatsApp. On the one hand, I illustrate that young people are encouraged to direct their attention towards missing friends and absent nightlife places. On the other hand, I find that young people create dynamics of comparison, competition, and optimization through constant connectedness. This raises new questions on young people's experiences of leisure time and space.
Helmut J. Geist
Geogr. Helv., 73, 187–191, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-187-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-187-2018, 2018
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Current efforts to formalize the Anthropocene as a new geologic epoch provoke deliberations concerning the re/unification of human and physical geography. The end of traditional (dualist) human-environmental thinking is noted, a vital pluralism of alternative approaches including gaia-politics welcomed, and, following Bruno Latour and others, the hegemony of a geoscientists’ (geocratic) narrative rejected for reasons provided by political ecology.
Benedikt Korf
Geogr. Helv., 73, 177–186, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-177-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-177-2018, 2018
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I critically interrogate the usefulness of the terminology of „post-secularism“ to understand the entanglement of religion and politics in multi-religious societies in the West and elsewhere. I suggest that the vocabulary of a descriptive political theology is better suited to study these dynamics and apply this conceptual vocabulary to analyse political-normative debates on Indian secularism and the everyday struggles of religious actors in the violent politics of Sri Lanka's civil war.
Muriel Côte and Denis Gautier
Geogr. Helv., 73, 165–175, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-165-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-165-2018, 2018
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This paper interrogates the endurance of a national forest management programme in Burkina Faso called Chantier d’Aménagement Forestier (CAF) despite
evidence of its shortcomings. Analysing the political economics of control over fuelwood markets helps elucidate the endurance of the CAF model. This is
important because it helps us understand how certain areas continue to be officially referred to as "forest" even when they do not have the ecological
characteristic of one.
Martina Blank
Geogr. Helv., 73, 147–149, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-147-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-147-2018, 2018
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Krisenproteste in Athen und Frankfurt by Daniel Mullis combines a detailed insight into political struggles in the context of the European austerity regime with a deep theoretical reflection about hegemony, moment and space referring to Laclau/ Mouffe, Rancière and Lefebvre. The result is a valuable proposition to think in a new manner about protest and institutionalisation as two equally significant elements of emancipation.
Thomas Honeck
Geogr. Helv., 73, 133–145, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-133-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-133-2018, 2018
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This paper characterizes different types of policy narratives that influence the trans-local motion of urban policies and elaborates on their relations. The paper first introduces conceptual and methodological recommendations from policy narrative literature to debates on policy mobility. In an empirical section, it then analyses narratives that support policies on temporary use of vacant lands and buildings in the German cities of Berlin and Stuttgart.
Martina Roggendorf and Claus-C. Wiegandt
Geogr. Helv., 73, 115–126, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-115-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-115-2018, 2018
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The importance of commuting especially between large urban centers has become a major topic as a growing number of people cover increasing distances to reach their workplaces. Based on this approach, the article looks into commuting between the cities of Cologne and Bonn. Social ties to these centers were identified as a main cause for commuting. 20 interviews were analyzed to set up five social types of commuters who have very different perceptions of their daily commute.
Jeff Malpas
Geogr. Helv., 73, 109–114, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-109-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-109-2018, 2018
Andreas Folkers and Nadine Marquardt
Geogr. Helv., 73, 79–93, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-79-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-79-2018, 2018
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From the colonial era up to the present, mega-irrigation projects have played a key role in Sahelian Africa.
It is possible to interpret them as
territorial traps: they set up boundaries (physical, relational, cognitive and operative) that force evolutive trajectories along rigid pathways. After the failure of the mega-irrigation projects, farmers are faced with significant constraints. They identified
a means of escapefrom these catastrophes by transgressing the boundaries imposed.
From the colonial era up to the present, mega-irrigation projects have played a key role in...
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