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Recent articles of the journal Geographica HelveticaDie another day: explanations based on qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) for the survival and non-survival of isolated ski lifts in Switzerland
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-85-2024
<b>Die another day: explanations based on qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) for the survival and non-survival of isolated ski lifts in Switzerland</b><br>
Steve Schlegel and Christoph Schuck<br>
Geogr. Helv., 79, 85–99, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-85-2024, 2024<br>
Why do isolated Swiss ski lifts die? A comprehensive survey of all isolated lifts ever established in Switzerland is conducted. Using a set-theoretical method (qualitative comparative analysis), it is shown that closed isolated lifts tend to be outdated and have no technical snowmaking facilities. Moreover, it is evident that the simultaneous occurrence of the lack of lift facility replacement, lack of snowmaking and high ski area competition has caused the closure of most isolated lifts.
2024-03-26T09:57:34+01:00Von Stadt, Land, Fluss zur Nachhaltigkeitskunde: (Irr-)Wege der Ausgestaltung des Fachwissens in den Berliner Geographielehrplänen der letzten drei Jahrzehnte
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-73-2024
<b>Von Stadt, Land, Fluss zur Nachhaltigkeitskunde: (Irr-)Wege der Ausgestaltung des Fachwissens in den Berliner Geographielehrplänen der letzten drei Jahrzehnte</b><br>
Péter Bagoly-Simó<br>
Geogr. Helv., 79, 73–84, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-73-2024, 2024<br>
This article explores whether the reduction in geographical knowledge leads to better Education for Sustainable Development or to a general loss of quality in Geography teaching and learning.
2024-03-20T09:57:34+01:00Intime Infrastrukturen: Feministisch-geographische Perspektiven auf Energie
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-65-2024
<b>Intime Infrastrukturen: Feministisch-geographische Perspektiven auf Energie</b><br>
Rosa Aue<br>
Geogr. Helv., 79, 65–72, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-65-2024, 2024<br>
Facing multiple and embodied inequalities inscribed in the energy system, this intervention argues for an feminist perspective on energy geographies. Extending critical research on urban infrastructure with concepts of care, it seeks to contribute to more just energy relations.
2024-02-29T09:57:34+01:00Book review: Mehr-als-menschliche Geographien – Schlüsselwerke, Beziehungen und Methodiken
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-61-2024
<b>Book review: Mehr-als-menschliche Geographien – Schlüsselwerke, Beziehungen und Methodiken</b><br>
Larissa Fleischmann<br>
Geogr. Helv., 79, 61–63, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-61-2024, 2024<br>
2024-02-27T09:57:34+01:00Shifting values at the cemetery – the artistic interventions of DeathLab
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-51-2024
<b>Shifting values at the cemetery – the artistic interventions of DeathLab</b><br>
Mirko Winkel, Mathias Siedhoff, and Jeannine Wintzer<br>
Geogr. Helv., 79, 51–59, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-51-2024, 2024<br>
Cemeteries are a reflection of the values, history, and composition of their communities. Current social developments are therefore also visible through them. This contribution describes the work of DeathLab, a public event series that uses contemporary artist-designed urns as a means of exploring shifting values in funeral culture and linking them to population geography. It explores the possibilities of scientific analysis by incorporating artistic interventions.
2024-02-16T09:57:34+01:00Making space for community energy: landed property as barrier and enabler of community wind projects
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-35-2024
<b>Making space for community energy: landed property as barrier and enabler of community wind projects</b><br>
Robert Wade and David Rudolph<br>
Geogr. Helv., 79, 35–50, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-35-2024, 2024<br>
Renewable energy technologies require land. Landowners therefore often play a crucial role in wind energy development, shaping participation opportunities of various groups. Through case studies of the Netherlands and Scotland, we unpack how landownership influences the possible strategies for community energy. We find that securing community ownership of the land or wind resource itself is a potentially powerful, long-term strategy for community energy movements to achieve their goals.
2024-02-05T09:57:34+01:00Theorizing power and agency in state-initiated municipal climate change adaptation: integrating reflexive capacity into adaptive capacity
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-21-2024
<b>Theorizing power and agency in state-initiated municipal climate change adaptation: integrating reflexive capacity into adaptive capacity</b><br>
Dennis Fila, Hartmut Fünfgeld, and Stefanie Lorenz<br>
Geogr. Helv., 79, 21–33, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-21-2024, 2024<br>
This paper explores the role of power, institutions, and actors in climate change adaptation. We introduce reflexive capacity, which is the ability of organizations to include diverse stakeholders and knowledge in decision-making. By analyzing a case study from Germany, we highlight how this capacity can transform over time and impact adaptation strategies. We conclude that understanding power and agency in this context can provide important insights for improving climate change adaptation.
2024-01-16T09:57:34+01:00Kiel 1969–2019: Die Zukunft der Geographie liegt auch in ihrer Vergangenheit
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-15-2024
<b>Kiel 1969–2019: Die Zukunft der Geographie liegt auch in ihrer Vergangenheit</b><br>
Benedikt Korf and Nadine Marquardt<br>
Geogr. Helv., 79, 15–19, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-15-2024, 2024<br>
2024-01-11T09:57:34+01:00Disziplinhistorische Tauchgänge zur German Theory: Ein Gespräch mit Ute Wardenga über die deutsche Länderkunde und Landschaftsgeographie
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-1-2024
<b>Disziplinhistorische Tauchgänge zur German Theory: Ein Gespräch mit Ute Wardenga über die deutsche Länderkunde und Landschaftsgeographie</b><br>
Benedikt Korf, Eberhard Rothfuß, and Ute Wardenga<br>
Geogr. Helv., 79, 1–13, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-1-2024, 2024<br>
2024-01-10T09:57:34+01:00A situated governmentality approach to energy transitions: technologies of power in German and Indian smart grid strategies
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-581-2023
<b>A situated governmentality approach to energy transitions: technologies of power in German and Indian smart grid strategies</b><br>
Leonie Büttner and Lucas Barning<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 581–592, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-581-2023, 2023<br>
This paper develops a situated governmentality approach to the particularities of energy transition projects, focusing on smart grid strategies in Germany and India. By analysing the underlying rationalities and power dynamics driving these energy transition projects, we challenge the dominant perception of smart grids as a universal solution. Our findings emphasize the different contexts in which smart grids are being developed and the various technologies of power at play.
2023-12-21T09:57:34+01:00Critical critical posthumanism in human geography
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-567-2023
<b>Critical critical posthumanism in human geography</b><br>
Huib Ernste<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 567–580, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-567-2023, 2023<br>
A critique of critical posthumanism from the perspective of the philosophical anthropology of Helmuth Plessner argues that practitioners of critical posthumanism are too quick with their critique of hitherto used conceptualisations of the human and too easily assume their utopian thinking to be the end of the debate, instead of engaging in a continuing search for a more human or posthuman world. This reflection could help to make critical posthumanism even more critical.
2023-12-13T09:57:34+01:00Editorial: Infrastructures and migration
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-559-2023
<b>Editorial: Infrastructures and migration</b><br>
Anna-Lisa Müller and Leonie Tuitjer<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 559–565, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-559-2023, 2023<br>
This article deals with the interrelation of migration and infrastructures. These are key topics of social geographic research. With this article we provide an overview on conceptualisations of infrastructures and migration, focussing in particular on the forms that infrastructures take in the course of migration journeys and the actors that are involved, as well as the effects the infrastructures have on migrants and their (im-)mobility.
2023-12-01T09:57:34+01:00Towards an integrative understanding of multiple energy justices
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-547-2023
<b>Towards an integrative understanding of multiple energy justices</b><br>
Stefanie Baasch<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 547–558, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-547-2023, 2023<br>
Energy transitions are closely linked to various justice issues, which are increasingly being studied in research contexts. In order to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the complexity of energy justice, including a greater consideration of emotions, this paper proposes an expanded model of energy justice that brings together existing concepts of environmental and energy justice.
2023-11-24T09:57:34+01:00„We are making it on ourselves“ – Infrastrukturen der (Im)Mobilität in Bosnien und Herzegowina
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-531-2023
<b>„We are making it on ourselves“ – Infrastrukturen der (Im)Mobilität in Bosnien und Herzegowina</b><br>
Philipp Themann and Benjamin Etzold<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 531–546, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-531-2023, 2023<br>
The article focuses on the cross-border movements of refugees at the Croatian external EU border and which infrastructures are used to enable, guide, regulate or completely prevent (im)mobility. The places presented in the article are nodes where physical, digital and social dimensions of infrastructures are intertwined in order to cope with situations of protracted displacement, social marginalization and forced immobilization.
2023-11-22T09:57:34+01:00Book review : Les espaces publics à l'épreuve des mobilités
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-527-2023
<b>Book review : Les espaces publics à l'épreuve des mobilités</b><br>
Gonçal Cerdà Beneito<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 527–529, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-527-2023, 2023<br>
2023-11-01T09:57:34+01:00Book review : Twin cities across five continents
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-523-2023
<b>Book review : Twin cities across five continents</b><br>
Christophe Sohn<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 523–525, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-523-2023, 2023<br>
2023-10-25T09:57:34+02:00Book review : Heteroactivism : resisting lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans rights and equalities
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-519-2023
<b>Book review : Heteroactivism : resisting lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans rights and equalities</b><br>
Morgane Rudaz<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 519–521, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-519-2023, 2023<br>
2023-10-25T09:57:34+02:00Legal Ecologies der Klimawandelanpassung
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-507-2023
<b>Legal Ecologies der Klimawandelanpassung</b><br>
Tino Petzold<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 507–518, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-507-2023, 2023<br>
More comprehensive legislation and litigation indicate a new significance of law in recent years within climate change politics. In order to illuminate these issues, this article engages with the political and legal scientific debates on juridification; traces the processes of juridification of climate policies in the German context from a historical perspective; and introduces the concept of "Legal Ecologies of Climate Change Adaptation" as a novel and legally nuanced perspective.
2023-10-10T09:57:34+02:00Infrastructuring environmental (in)justice: green hydrogen, Indigenous sovereignty and the political geographies of energy technologies
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-493-2023
<b>Infrastructuring environmental (in)justice: green hydrogen, Indigenous sovereignty and the political geographies of energy technologies</b><br>
Benno Fladvad<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 493–505, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-493-2023, 2023<br>
This article develops a conceptual approach for energy-related environmental justice research. This infrastructural lens is exemplarily applied to the issue of green hydrogen, drawing on brief insights from Colombia and Canada. It shows that hydrogen infrastructures can be sources of injustice but also vehicles for decolonization and Indigenous sovereignty. The conceptual research was conducted as part of a fellowship at the Research Institute for Sustainability, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam.
2023-10-04T09:57:34+02:00Methodologische Reflexionen zur reflexiven Fotografie aus den Perspektiven postkolonialer Kritik
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-479-2023
<b>Methodologische Reflexionen zur reflexiven Fotografie aus den Perspektiven postkolonialer Kritik</b><br>
Andreas Eberth<br>
Geogr. Helv., 78, 479–491, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-479-2023, 2023<br>
In diesem Beitrag wird der Fokus primär auf post- und dekoloniale Konturierungen epistemischer Gewalt gelegt. Dabei wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob und inwiefern Visualisierungen, die im Rahmen qualitativer empirischer Forschung entstehen, einen Beitrag leisten können, der Kritik zu begegnen und Gewaltverhältnisse zumindest zu reduzieren oder epistemische Gewaltverhältnisse weiter stützen.
2023-09-26T09:57:34+02:00