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Geogr. Helv., 72, 243–254, 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.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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Partizipation migrantisch markierter Bürgerinnen in der Süddeutschen Zeitung – eine diskursanalytische Sondierung
Mosè Cometta
Geogr. Helv., 76, 459–469, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-459-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-459-2021, 2021
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This paper analyses two master plans of the canton Ticino from a philosophical point of view – the first one from 1990, Keynesian, and the second one from 2009, neoliberal. This type of analysis, by showing the political and moral concepts and criteria underlying a master plan, favours their political discussion and thus, ultimately, the implementation of a more inclusive planning process.
Peter Dirksmeier and Angelina Göb
Geogr. Helv., 76, 449–454, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-449-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-449-2021, 2021
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The essay combines the concept of social cohesion with Rudolf Stichweh’s system-theoretical concept of world society. These two approaches are combined hereafter with questions of spatial differentiation. The aim is to embed empirical micro-studies in macro-theoretical terms and to make them useful for empirical research in social geography and spatial science. The construct of “cohesive region” demonstrates this by using the example of urban neighbourhoods.
Janina Dobrusskin and Ilse Helbrecht
Geogr. Helv., 76, 425–436, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-425-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-425-2021, 2021
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Migrant domestic workers develop psychosocial well-being, based on their subjective embodied positioning, which can analytically be grasped through the concept of ontological (in)security. The women perceive and produce ontological (in)security through the spatial dimensions of visibility and belonging. Experiencing visibility and belonging benefits their sense of security and well-being. The results show the relevance of implementing regulations for more possible whereabouts of the women.
Tobias Breuckmann
Geogr. Helv., 76, 437–448, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-437-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-437-2021, 2021
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The article analyses the role of detention centres within refugee camps. Why is it important for the functioning of the refugee camp? How is the detention centre linked to other elements within and outside of the camp through certain practices? The former refugee camp of Moria serves as an example. It turns out that mostly asylum seekers with low recognition rates are detained in order to prevent the provision of information and help from outside in order to make a negative decision more likely.
Benedikt Korf and Ute Wardenga
Geogr. Helv., 76, 381–384, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-381-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-381-2021, 2021
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In this editorial, we introduce the special section on the politics of memory of
Kiel 1969, the famous German geographers' conference, in which, as the myth narrates, a revolution took place within the discipline of German-language geography. We introduce the three individual statements by Verne, Strohmayer and Weichhart, who all recount their entanglements with the myth of
Kiel 1969, and place them in a wider context of the history of geography.
Katharina Mohring and Nina Brendel
Geogr. Helv., 76, 369–380, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-369-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-369-2021, 2021
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The paper discusses how virtual reality (VR) could make a difference to geographic education. A key argument is that virtual immersive environments were acquired affectively and emotionally by users. This should be considered for the processes of consuming, producing, and mediating geographic knowledge via and with VR. To discuss this a teaching and research project is presented in which students produced VR field trips based on empiric research in the cities of Vienna and Berlin.
Frank Meyer and Tim Leibert
Geogr. Helv., 76, 335–345, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-335-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-335-2021, 2021
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Based on a critique of statistical and cartographic analyses of migration patterns of young adults in rural areas of Central Germany, we conclude that there is an emergence of cultures of (out-)migration in some rural regions and discuss possible approaches from psychoanalytically informed migration research and complex systems theory that may help us to understand why, in these regions, adolescents often consider leaving the most viable option.
Anna Lena Bercht, Jonas Hein, and Silja Klepp
Geogr. Helv., 76, 305–314, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-305-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-305-2021, 2021
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This special issue shows that environmental justice perspectives are useful for analysing current socio-ecological conflicts. It aims at exploring climate and marine narratives, environmental knowledge claims, multiple ontologies, climate change adaptation, and the spatial and temporal shaping of socio-ecological struggles for climate and marine justice in more detail. Furthermore, it takes up current strands of climate and marine justice scholarship and explores avenues for further research.
Ute Wardenga
Geogr. Helv., 76, 299–303, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-299-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-299-2021, 2021
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By means of hermeneutic source criticism, my paper investigates how the events of “Kiel 1969” gave rise to a myth. It concludes that the congress’s participants experienced “Kiel 1969” as the site of an enormously dense social interaction within their science. Most importantly, participants’ suggestive oral reports in the aftermath of the congress turned it into the “myth of Kiel”, which became an essential driving force of German-speaking geography’s modernization.
Marco Nocente
Geogr. Helv., 76, 289–297, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-289-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-289-2021, 2021
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This article discusses the methodological and ethical challenges of researching prison letters through a narrative approach. After giving insight into the work of the OLGa Collective and its archive of letters, I problematise the environment of prison spaces that shape inmates' subjectivities and then develop a discussion of the narrative approach by exploring the author's role as booklet editor and researcher, spanning activism and academia and his quest of
speaking for others.
Elisabeth Gruber
Geogr. Helv., 76, 275–284, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-275-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-275-2021, 2021
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The field of population geography in the last few years has intensively focussed on populations that are on the move. While the topic of migration is of great interest and will also be in the future, researchers have also started to focus more on immobile populations. In this paper, literature on immobile populations has been collected and analysed. The paper concludes on what we already know about
immobilitiesfrom extant research and makes suggestions for future research.
Stefanie Hürtgen
Geogr. Helv., 76, 261–273, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-261-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-261-2021, 2021
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Der Artikel diskutiert, warum Lohnarbeit in Europa quer durch die verschiedenen Länder als strukturell krisenhaft angesehen werden muss. Um diese Frage zu beantworten, werden nicht einzelne nationale Sozial- und Arbeitspolitiken diskutiert, sondern es wird das aktuelle europäische Produktionsregime insgesamt betrachtet. Im Zentrum der Analyse steht der Zusammenhang von Transnationalisierung von Produktion und vielfacher und dynamischer sozialräumlicher Fragmentierung der Arbeitsprozesse.
Ernst Michael Preininger and Robert Hafner
Geogr. Helv., 76, 249–260, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-249-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-249-2021, 2021
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Digital technologies are changing the way farms look and operate. To understand the implications, we analysed functionalities of an Austrian start-up which lets customers take care of plots of acres virtually and from their homes. In this system, technology proposes decisions, and there is no classic farmer any more. Our example shows the manifold new potential that powerful and smart technologies can have for food production, but it also shows the threats to farmers.
Katrin Schade, Susan Radisch, Marcus Hübscher, and Johannes Ringel
Geogr. Helv., 76, 233–248, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-233-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-233-2021, 2021
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Small and medium-sized cities in rural areas that are affected by emigration need support. These cities are often lacking the financial and human resources to address resulting problems such as vacant city centers. The study shows that the city competition "Ab in die Mitte! Die City-Offensive Sachsen" supports such cities through project fundings and promotes knowledge exchange between cities. The funding is small but helps to stimulate positive change.
Mark Lawrence
Geogr. Helv., 76, 221–232, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-221-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-221-2021, 2021
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Part of a 20-year engagement with descendants of those displaced during the colonial era trying to reclaim land now occupied by a British-owned sisal plantation in Kenya, this research aims to contribute to efforts to make use of nonrepresentational theory in geography to advance sustainable development. It does so in the context of China's Belt and Road Initiative
dreamscapeof megaproject infrastructure investment.
Sarah Klosterkamp
Geogr. Helv., 76, 205–219, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-205-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-205-2021, 2021
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Dieser Betrag bietet eine Analyse deutscher Staatsschutzverfahren, die im Hinblick auf ihre Anklageschriften, Verfahrensverläufe und Verurteilungen für die Jahre 2015–2020 qualitativ ausgewertet wurden. Anhand ihrer zeige inwiefern durch die Hinzunahme der Sicherungsverwahrung und der Möglichkeit asylrechtlicher (Folge-)Maßnahmen im Kontext dieser Verfahren eine Ausweitung von Haft für nicht-deutsche* Täter*innen auf mehreren Ebenen sowohl ermöglicht als auch praktisch vollzogen wird.
Michael Mießner and Matthias Naumann
Geogr. Helv., 76, 193–204, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-193-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-193-2021, 2021
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Rural areas have received new attention. Regions previously characterized as shrinking are experiencing a highly selective influx of urban middle-class households and an increase in real estate prices. These developments raise the question of value increase and displacement. This article aims to systematize the state of the art in British rural gentrification studies and to explain possible connections for German research on rural gentrification and discusses starting points for future research.
Janine Hauer
Geogr. Helv., 76, 163–175, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-163-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-163-2021, 2021
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Visions for the future drive current practices and shape daily lives. This is also true for different groups of actors involved in the Bagré Growth Pole Project in Burkina Faso, an initiative to promote agricultural development in one of the poorest countries in the world. Based on 9 months of ethnographic
fieldwork, I examine how ideas of the future are used to explain and legitimize how the project proceeds and how lingering conflicts remain unsolved as the future is prioritized.
Benedikt Korf, Maxie Bernhard, Tim Fässler, Meret Oehen, Nicola Siegrist, Livia Zeller, and Gary Seitz
Geogr. Helv., 76, 177–191, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-177-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-177-2021, 2021
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This paper studies a student movement that opened up spaces for radical geography at the geography department of the University of Zurich in the early 1980s, where these students demanded a new curriculum. Building on archival material and narrative interviews, this paper documents the "thought style" of these student initiatives and illustrates the antagonistic political mood, in which these initiatives operated. This case thereby shows the precariousness of radical theory in geography.
Julia Verne
Geogr. Helv., 76, 159–161, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-159-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-159-2021, 2021
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Kiel 1969bietet einen Einstieg, um über die spezifisch deutschsprachige Entwicklung des Faches nachzudenken und wissenschaftliche Dynamiken in gesellschaftliche Kontexte einzubetten.
Kiel 1969zeigt, wie spannend und vielschichtig die Geographie ist, und die Debatte darum zeigt, wieviel wir nicht wissen, wie einfach wir es uns manchmal machen und wieviel es noch zu entdecken gibt. Aus meiner Perspektive ist
Kiel 1969wichtig, aber eben nicht nur
Kiel 1969!
Rémi Willemin and Norman Backhaus
Geogr. Helv., 76, 147–158, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-147-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-147-2021, 2021
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To understand farmers and beekeepers' perceptions of future waterscapes in the Swiss Jura, we applied the novel technique of speculative photo-response fabulation. In the fields, farmers and beekeepers photographed landscapes depicting their relationships to water. Many imagined the probable futures of the picture-framed waterscapes to be like southern regions nowadays. In reaction to their degradation, participants envision plural desired pathways expressing engaged geographies of futures.
Jan Lucas Geilen and Daniel Mullis
Geogr. Helv., 76, 129–141, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-129-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-129-2021, 2021
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Mit dem Paper wurde die je größte Stadt je Bundesland dahingehend untersucht, wie sozio-ökonomische Lage, Migration, Zuspruch zur Demokratie und Altersstruktur mit dem Zweitstimmenanteil der AfD in Stadtteilen korreliert. Vier Aspekte sind zentral: Erstens, Städte sind hinsichtlich des Zuspruchs stark polarisiert; sie sind zweitens, bei weitem nicht nur progressive Orte; drittens, divergieren die Gründe der Polarisierung; und, viertens, ist keine klare Ost-West-Polarisierung auszumachen.
Julie Ren
Geogr. Helv., 76, 103–113, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-103-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-103-2021, 2021
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There has been a proliferation of contemporary art biennials in the past 20 years, especially in cities outside of North America and Europe. This paper considers the ways that the biennial thwarts the possibility of
authenticrepresentation. The research puts the biennials in Taipei and Dakar into relational comparison, looking at the ways cultural identity is made, instrumentalized, and strategically employed.
Laura Gebhardt and Rebekka Oostendorp
Geogr. Helv., 76, 115–127, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-115-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-115-2021, 2021
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The findings of the empirical mixed-method study on car use help to understand mobility practices and their underlying logic.The central component is a user typology based on a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews. The study aims to present an empirical description of mobility practices and the guiding logic of different mobility types in Berlin. The findings offer starting points for user-specific measuress to encourage people to use new mobility concepts instead of their car.
Marina Richter and Julia Emprechtinger
Geogr. Helv., 76, 65–73, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-65-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-65-2021, 2021
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The conditions of social work in prisons are seldomly researched. In particular, we focus on its spatial conditions as it works with and for people who are confined, but it is also carried out under conditions of confinement. Based on insights from two prisons in Switzerland we analyse these conditions by focusing on spaces, bodies and emotions. The materiality of the prison translates into the prison logics and enforces them in complex ways on the bodies of prisoners as well as social workers.
Klaus Geiselhart, Simon Runkel, Susann Schäfer, and Benedikt Schmid
Geogr. Helv., 76, 51–63, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-51-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-51-2021, 2021
Judith Bopp and Anna Lena Bercht
Geogr. Helv., 76, 29–46, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-29-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-29-2021, 2021
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Considering time in climate justice research and practice deepens understanding of climate injustices to vulnerable people and of timely adaptation and resilience strategies. This is what the paper exemplifies by drawing on empirical results of farming communities in India and fishing communities in Norway. It suggests that qualitative scenarios based on the different facets of time as perceived by local groups are a valuable complement to existing quantifications of climate change projections.
Christoph Creutziger and Paul Reuber
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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Geopolitical imaginaries and discourses are subject to long-term changes that can be analyzed with computer-based lexicometric tools. Tracing the appearence of keywords like
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.
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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We explore climate change adaptation planning from a justice perspective. We draw on the growing literature on the politics of adaptation and on justice theories and highlight the need for incorporating the distributive, procedural and recognition justice dimensions in adaptation planning. Adaptation to climate change is reframed as a set of temporal, spatial and socio-political choices that have significant justice implications.
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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Every crisis is a moment both of the intensification of borders and of their potential breaking down. Borders have acquired centrality in the imaginary of the management of the pandemic. They are a constitutive part of the pandemic condition, endowed with a new symbolic and cognitive force. The massive interventions by states to shore up the economy may simply be the prelude to a more virulent phase, where a crisis of legitimacy and a crisis of social reproduction are interwoven.
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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This paper examines the climate justice narratives that are gradually emerging in the cross-border territory of Chiapas–Guatemala, in an area of high socio-environmental conflict. The religious factor is the driving force behind many of these anti-capitalist struggles, especially from the perspective of liberation theology. The case study is a call for the inclusion of religion in climate and environmental justice theories, as a relevant factor in territories with a colonial past.
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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This paper looks at the possibilities and difficulties of producing short comic stories with interviewees in order to find out about the way in which they remember that past and anticipate the future. The study this paper is based on was conducted by three artists and one geographer with people who live close to a planned development corridor in Kenya. The results suggest that the presented method can offer unique insights by making abstract ideas of the future more concrete.
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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Cet article s'intéresse à la représentation de la Suisse à travers deux affiches. La première vise à attirer une clientèle touristique en 1942, la seconde à faire voter les électeurs pour le parti Vert'libéral en 2019. Nous décryptons les images représentées et montrons en quoi elles vont de pair avec certains messages. La Suisse est ici celle des familles urbaines et celle de la verdure. Ces deux thèmes sont clés dans la mobilisation d'un public touristique et d'un électorat.
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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When authorities act apparently to protect communities from risks, including those made worse by climate change, there can be other motives at work. Through research in Rio de Janeiro we analyse how a favela clearance policy was brought in after landslides in 2010 with only weak technical justification. Favela dwellers, activists and counter-experts formed a network to contest these moves, challenge the risk assessments undertaken and build a partially successful resistance to an unjust policy.
Bernd Belina
Geogr. Helv., 75, 371–380, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-371-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-371-2020, 2020
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The spatial borders of territorial states are also the limits of the validity of the principle of abstract equality and its emancipatory potential. Against the backdrop of geographical theorizations of spatial forms, the paper discusses how this is reflected in the Marxist critique of merely abstract equality and the ways in which current theories of radical democracy find emancipatory potential in the demand for equality.
Rossella Alba, Silja Klepp, and Antje Bruns
Geogr. Helv., 75, 363–368, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-363-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-363-2020, 2020
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Taking as an example coastal protection infrastructure under construction in the Venetian Lagoon, we reflect on how environmental justice approaches are useful to analyse the socio-political processes shaping coastal environments and climate change adaptation interventions.
Mathis Stock
Geogr. Helv., 75, 349–361, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-349-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-349-2020, 2020
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Are the legal dimensions of social spatialities sufficiently taken into account in geographical theory? The concept
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.
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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This article investigates how new digital technologies are established in agriculture. It draws upon empirical data from a qualitative case study with a Swiss based but internationally operating start-up that has recently obtained the first authorisation to spray crop protection products on vineyards with their home-made drone. The authors show that there has been a joint-effort between the private company and federal institutions to experiment, improve and regulate the functioning of the drone.
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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This intervention discusses the politics of place naming in the context of decolonising universities and academic knowledge. It is written as a comic that creates a visual as well as textual narrative by focussing on the figure of Carl Vogt, a 19th century racial theorist and politician whose name was used for a building constructed in 2015 at the University of Geneva. It is written as a personal letter to Carl Vogt.
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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Die Intervention befasst sich vor allem mit der Dynamik des Dialogs zwischen Carolin Schur und Peter Weichhart. Die leitende rage lautet, Wie kann wissenschaftlicher Dialog am besten gestaltet werden unter Bedingungen der tendenziell zunehmenden Wissenslücken der jeweiligen Dialogpartner*innen gegenüber anderen Standpunkten? Es wird argumentiert, dass diese Frage am besten geantwortet werden kann, wenn wir unser Verständnis für die subtile Auswirkungen der Positionalität verbessern.
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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Drawing on qualitative interviews conducted with users of the smartphone application Foursquare in New York City, this article explores what navigating urban space and finding places of interests (cafés, restaurants, bars, etc.) means when relying on maps that are algorithmically personalized. This article questions the ways in which users are profiled and categorized in fluid and post-demographic ways and draws on the concept of
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
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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...
