Special issue: Special edition Social Geography: Criminality and carcerality...
Standard article 22 Dec 2014
Standard article | 22 Dec 2014
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.
post-migrantperspective. In the end, various challenges remain on how to deal with
migrant economiesin political and academic practice.
Raum. Gesetze. Daten.. The article calls for a broader historiographic analysis of the quantitative-theoretical turn in German-speaking geography. We propose a research agenda that aims at writing a history of science beyond monumental history and classical intellectual history, that focuses on the messiness of history and takes the historicity of systems of thought into account. The endeavour is part of a growing
progressive sense of place, transnationalities, socio-spatial atmospheres,
homeand encounters, it has never become a major strand of contemporary (German speaking) human geography.
Young People and New Geographies of Learning and Educationsets a theoretical frame for the collected papers focusing on the three themes: (1)
movement and transitions, (2) spaces and identities, and (3) education and assemblages. This special issue adds an exciting collection of papers with diverse geographical foci that address the various challenges to youths, young people's geographies, and geographies of education.
framing and overflowing(Callon, 1998) and
fuzzy logic(Zadeh, 2015) to show the application and relevance of critically examining educational selection beyond the particular local context. It examines the empirical example of the central entrance examination procedure to grammar schools in the Canton of Zurich. The main argument illuminates the widely neglected grey zones and the fuzzy logic lying at the heart of the selection machinery for higher education.
forest transitionrefers to a pattern in which historical deforestation is replaced by forest regrowth. The concept normally points to economic, social, and political causes. This paper proposes a new analytical model that focuses attention on four interrelated processes: changes in tree cover; changes in forest quality; change in the ecological, socio-economic, and political processes that create particular forests; and changes in the way we think about and categorize forests.
