https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/ Recent articles of the journal Geographica Helvetica en https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-311-2026 The promissory narratives of the Dutch National Protein Strategy Willem Rogier Boterman Geogr. Helv., 81, 311–323, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-311-2026, 2026 This paper investigates the National Protein Strategy (NPS) of the Netherlands, an important producer and global exporter of meat and dairy products that largely relies on the import of plant-based proteins from across the globe. The paper shows that the strategy is riddled with techno-optimist narratives that are promising to resolve the strategic deficit of proteins, sustaining the Dutch intensive livestock farming. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:40:03 +0200 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-305-2026 Book review: Visualisierung Qualitativer Geographien – Ein Handbuch Lilith Kuhn Geogr. Helv., 81, 305–309, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-305-2026, 2026 This is a book review of the handbook: Visualisierung Qualitativer Geographien – Ein Handbuch. Wed, 20 May 2026 11:40:03 +0200 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-297-2026 Researching the authoritarian: a conversation on methodology and ethics in closed contexts Sven Daniel Wolfe and Dasha Kuletskaya Geogr. Helv., 81, 297–304, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-297-2026, 2026 This short academic conversation covers the challenges of doing work in contexts shaped by authoritarian practices. Based on our experience living and working in many countries from the former Soviet Union, we compare these experiences with the authoritarian turn in the broader West. Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:40:03 +0200 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-293-2026 Book review: Chris Philo: Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination Felicitas Kübler Geogr. Helv., 81, 293–295, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-293-2026, 2026 This review examines Chris Philo’s Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (2025), which develops an antifascist geographical imagination through a detailed engagement with Theodor W. Adorno’s work. It highlights the book’s key contribution in rendering Adorno’s critical theory productive for human geography by foregrounding its spatial dimensions. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:40:03 +0200 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-289-2026 Book review: Après la ville. Défis de l'urbanisation planétaire de Pierre Veltz (Éditions du Seuil, 2025) Sébastien Lambelet Geogr. Helv., 81, 289–291, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-289-2026, 2026 In Après la ville, Pierre Veltz offers a perceptive analysis of the profound transformations reshaping 21st‑century cities and urban spaces. He argues that the morphological definition of the city — and the radioconcentric model that structured 20th‑century urban studies — has now become obsolete. Indeed, thanks to increasingly dense networks and territorial ramifications linking major cities, the urban condition now asserts itself everywhere. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:40:03 +0200 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-273-2026 Fragmented reproduction: women's reproductive experiences and the carcerality of Swiss federal asylum camps Laura Perler, Milena Wegelin, Nina Etter, and Carolin Schurr Geogr. Helv., 81, 273–287, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-273-2026, 2026 The article explores the reproductive experiences in Swiss federal asylum camps, arguing that these camps function as carceral spaces that severely impact women's reproductive lives through logics of fragmentation. Combining insights from carceral geography and studies on reproductive health, the authors argue for the abolition of asylum camps and the creation of alternative housing and care models that centre women's needs. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:40:03 +0200 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-255-2026 Cellular agriculture in the media: newspaper coverage in Australia, Brazil, Germany, and India Brenda Buhr Voth, Peter Rothe, Rodrigo Luiz Morais-da-Silva, Mariana Hase Ueta, Frank Meyer, and Carla Forte Maiolino Molento Geogr. Helv., 81, 255–271, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-255-2026, 2026 Cellular agriculture (CellAg) is a technology used to produce meat alternatives. It aims at lowering carbon emissions, reducing animal cruelty, and mitigating the adverse environmental effects of mass meat production. We analyzed media coverage of CellAg in four countries (Australia, Brazil, Germany, and India) and compared which topics were most frequently associated with it. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:40:03 +0200 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-237-2026 Grounded relationalities, the socio-ecological (de/re)territorialization of São Paulo's urban marginalities Lucas Lerchs Geogr. Helv., 81, 237–253, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-237-2026, 2026 This study retraces the production, loss, and defence of a self-built urban settlement in the ecological peripheries of São Paulo. This study explores how such self-built marginalized communities build and defend their territory in the face of environmental laws and urban expansion. It shows how everyday relations with land and the ecologies – what the work calls grounded relationalities – are both the basis of home and the target of oppression and potential resistance for the evicted families.  Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-223-2026 Festivalisation in a new light: characteristics and objectives of light art festivals in Germany Jochen Burger Geogr. Helv., 81, 223–236, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-223-2026, 2026 This qualitative study researches light art festivals in Germany. Over the past 25 years, 25 light art festivals have been implemented by various actors, mostly in small- and medium-sized cities across Germany. The analysis indicates that public authorities do not adopt this format solely for the purpose of promoting the city's brand and attracting tourists. Instead, these events are also founded with the aim of defamiliarising routines and addressing multiples challenges in city centres. Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-207-2026 Declining red brick factories in Greater Cairo (Egypt): unveiling military-led urbanization through its productive peripheries Corten Pérez-Houis Geogr. Helv., 81, 207–222, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-207-2026, 2026 This paper deals with Cairo's contemporary urbanization through one of its main building materials: red brick. Although the Egyptian capital has been expanding for the last few decades, the production of this building material is being challenged. The modernization policies implemented by al-Sisi's government have led to a technical standardization of red brick and an economic marginalization of its factories, with concrete block emerging as a competing material. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-193-2026 Klassenzusammensetzung und die Produktion verräumlichter Gemeinschaften in Barcelona-Sants Martin Sarnow Geogr. Helv., 81, 193–206, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-193-2026, 2026 The article analyses the production of spatialised communities in the Sants district of Barcelona from a historical-materialist perspective. The case study outlines how rising rents, displacement and forced evictions threaten existing social structures, while at the same time new spatialised communities are produced in struggles against neoliberal urban development. The composition of these struggles reflects an international, heavily feminized, and precarious working class. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-179-2026 Preparing for war: citizenship, militarization and the agencies of children and youth in security politics Kathrin Hörschelmann and Lukas Dreßen Geogr. Helv., 81, 179–192, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-179-2026, 2026 This paper examines how young people are enrolled in military security politics as a politics of killing and letting die that is enabled by generational injustice. Based on the analysis of the three case studies of military recruitment and citizenship in France, Sweden, and Latvia, the paper argues for greater attention to the militarization of young people’s lives and to the ethical and generational justice implications of this. Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-171-2026 German Theory: Ein Nachwort Benedikt Korf and Eberhard Rothfuß Geogr. Helv., 81, 171–177, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-171-2026, 2026 In this afterword to the themed issue German Theory, we explain the origins and meaning of German Theory as a constellation of German-Jewish thought that although it has its origins in the cultural and intellectual life of Weimar still has something important to say to contemporary human geography and its theoretical debates. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-155-2026 Between faith and nature: sacred landscapes of South Tyrol in nineteenth-century travel accounts Lorenzo Brocada Geogr. Helv., 81, 155–169, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-155-2026, 2026 This study explores how religion and nature shaped the Alpine landscapes of South Tyrol in the nineteenth century. By analyzing travellers' writings and images, it shows how faith was expressed through mountain spaces and how these sacred places helped form local identity. The research reveals that sacred landscapes are dynamic, linking memory, belief, and a sense of belonging that still resonates today. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-137-2026 The menhir: aesthetic politics of radioactive waste disposal in northern Switzerland Rony Emmenegger and Federico Luisetti Geogr. Helv., 81, 137–153, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-137-2026, 2026 Geological disposal projects rest on the assumption that radioactive waste can be safely managed through its spatio-temporal separation from human life at the surface. This paper examines how a local farmer in the Zürcher Weinland – one of the regions considered for nuclear waste disposal – disrupted this assumption by rendering the radioactive hazard perceptible through a series of landscape interventions. Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-123-2026 The productivity of necropolitics Timo Dorsch Geogr. Helv., 81, 123–136, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-123-2026, 2026 This analysis addresses the question of the role of violence in maximizing capitalist profits in Latin America. It reveals that violence is not a consequence of personal brutality but rather a structural component of a very specific form of labour. The labour carried out through violence, and the human bodies that endure it, form a mode of production that is more similar to what we are familiar with than we usually realize. Nonetheless, even here, resistance is possible. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-107-2026 Urban climate neutrality: Swiss development projects and urban climate finance in Rajkot Fritz-Julius Grafe and Christian Jung Geogr. Helv., 81, 107–122, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-107-2026, 2026 This paper explores how Swiss development agencies strategically facilitate climate finance in Rajkot, India. By anchoring climate finance locally, these projects promote climate-resilient infrastructure while advancing Switzerland’s geopolitical and economic goals. The study examines the formation of state–capital hybrids and explores the shifting role of the state under current climate finance practices. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-87-2026 Conflits et apprentissages militants: le mouvement pro-ukrainien en France face à la guerre (2014–2024) Hervé Amiot Geogr. Helv., 81, 87–105, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-87-2026, 2026 How do you advocate for and send aid to a country at war thousands of kilometers away? This is the questions facing the Ukrainian diaspora in France since 2014 and the "first" Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The article shows that pro-Ukrainian activists, who are largely new to the cause, are building their practical know-how "on the job" by experimenting with other activists, consulting professionals (especially in the medical field), and interacting remotely with their contacts in Ukraine. Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-77-2026 Political feelings in ecological crises – an Introduction to the Theme Issue “Emotional society-nature-relations” [Emotionale Gesellschaft-Natur-Verhältnisse] Jan Winkler and Boris Michel Geogr. Helv., 81, 77–85, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-77-2026, 2026 The editorial introduces the special issue on socio-environmental emotionalities. It stresses the importance of analysing the emotional and affective dimensions of shifting society–environment relations in the context of climate change and socio-ecological crises. Based on a political and spatial conceptualisation of emotions and affects, the editorial asks about their role in shaping power relations and subjectivities, while engaging with the rich contributions to the special issue. Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:40:03 +0100 https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-69-2026 Bordering the academy: comment la frontière de Damoclès empêche de travailler sur la Palestine? Clémence Lehec Geogr. Helv., 81, 69–76, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-81-69-2026, 2026 The author offers a retrospective of her researching on borders in Palestine in the late 2010's experience, in the form of commented narrative reconstructions. The author describes and analyzes the processes of silenciation and the obstacles encountered in conducting research on Palestine. She intends to raise questions about what is build as legitimate or not within the academic space, reflecting on the power relations that act as structural brakes on the production of knowledge. Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:40:03 +0100