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GH | Articles | Volume 74, issue 1
Geogr. Helv., 74, 13-25, 2019
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Special issue: Contested Urban Territories: Decolonized Perspectives
Geogr. Helv., 74, 13-25, 2019
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Standard article 16 Jan 2019
Standard article | 16 Jan 2019
Territory, enclosure, and state territorial mode of production in the Russian imperial periphery
Vera SmirnovaRelated subject area
Human Geography
Du retrait à la reconquête : pratiquer la ville après un épisode psychotique
The lived city: everyday experiences, urban scenarios, and topological networks
Migrantische Ökonomien zwischen Potentialorientierung und Differenzmarkierung. Konzeption und Erträge eines „prä-postmigrantischen“ Forschungsgegenstands
A perspective of counter-hegemonic analysis and territorial transformation
What forest is in the light of people's perceptions and values: socio-cultural forest monitoring in Switzerland
Intensive Geographien – die Versorgung von extremen Frühgeburten in Deutschland aus praxistheoretischer Perspektive
„March for Sozialgeographie“? Rechtspopulismus als Zumutung und die regressive Moderne als Herausforderung der Humangeographie
Jenseits von Kiel: Zu einer Wissenschaftsgeschichte der quantitativ-theoretischen Wende in der deutschsprachigen Geographie
Understanding the geographies of religion and secularity: on the potentials of a broader exchange between geography and the (post-) secularity debate
The geography of spheres: an introduction and critical assessment of Peter Sloterdijk's concept of spheres
Einführung: Die ungeheuerliche Raumphilosophie von Peter Sloterdijk
Introduction: The trouble with forest: definitions, values and boundaries
Ungleichheit, Intersektionalität und Alter(n) – für eine räumliche Methodologie in der Ungleichheitsforschung
Geopolitik als Literatur – ein germanistischer Beitrag zur Genealogie der deutschen Politischen Geographie und Geopolitik
Atmospheres of retail and the asceticism of civilized consumption
Attending to others: how digital technologies direct young people's nightlife
Integrative Geographie neu denken – z.B. anthropozänisch
„Wir sind nie säkular gewesen“: Politische Theologie und die Geographien des Religiösen
Fuelwood territorialities: Chantier d'Aménagement Forestier and the reproduction of “political forests” in Burkina Faso
Book review: Wider dem europäischen Austeritätsregime: Mit Laclau, Mouffe, Rancière und Lefebvre das transformatorische Potenzial politischer Kämpfe ausschöpfen
A touch of post-truth: the roles of narratives in urban policy mobilities
Pendeln zwischen zwei Oberzentren – von verlorener bis geschenkter Zeit
Assessing the significance of Heidegger's Black Notebooks
Die Verschränkung von Umwelt und Wohnwelt – Grüne smart homes aus der Perspektive der pluralen Sphärologie
Lebenswelt, Leiblichkeit und Resonanz: Eine raumphänomenologisch-rekonstruktive Perspektive auf Geographien der Alltäglichkeit
Introduction to the special issue “Young People and New Geographies of Learning and Education”
Fortschritt und Verdrängung – Ökologischer Fehlschluss und quantitative Revolution in der Geographie
Vidéosurveillance et insécurités urbaines : Etude de l'efficacité préventive du dispositif de caméras installé au quartier des Pâquis à Genève
Unbound emotional geographies of youth transitions
Framing, overflowing, and fuzzy logic in educational selection: Zurich as a case study
Die Emergenz der Masse – zur Urbanität im globalen Süden
Geographien sozialer Krisen/Krisen sozialer Geographien
Forest transitions: a new conceptual scheme
Familienmigration bei Hochqualifizierten: wie intergenerationale Beziehungen das Einleben prägen
Revolution ohne Kiel und ohne Revolution – Die quantitativ-theoretische Geographie in Erlangen
Pre-Thinking GIS – Zur Visuellen Politik der frühen quantitativ-theoretischen Geographie
Post-secular rapprochement in peripheralized regions – politics of withdrawal and parish community responses
Die Abwesenheit der Phänomenologie in der deutschen Humangeographie
The role of organizational culture in policy mobilities – the case of South Korean climate change adaptation policies
Rescaling Energy? Räumliche Neuordnungen in der deutschen Energiewende
Postsäkulares Placemaking im oberpfälzischen Konnersreuth: Sakralisierung, Kulturerbe, Eigensinn
Freunde führen einander – Der kommunalpolitische Dialog mit dem „Islam“ im Modus einer Gouvernementalität der Freundschaft
Gestimmte Denkräume. Anmerkungen zu Jürgen Hasses „Was Räume mit uns machen – und wir mit ihnen“ (2014)
Entschärfte Säkularisierung – gezähmte Religiosität – (multi-)religiöse Räume als räumliche Materialisierungen der Postsäkularisierung
Territorialisation à distance par caméra vidéo : Perception de la vidéosurveillance au quartier des Pâquis à Genève
„Im Namen der Sicherheit“ – Staatsschutzprozesse als Orte politisch-geographischer Forschung, dargestellt an Beispielen aus Gerichtsverfahren gegen Kämpfer und UnterstützerInnen der Terrororganisation „Islamischer Staat“
Interpreting mega-development projects as territorial traps: the case of irrigation schemes on the shores of Lake Chad (Borno State, Nigeria)
Big data from the sky: popular perceptions of private drones in Switzerland
What does Pokémon Go teach us about geography?
Unaccompanied minor asylum seekers – processes of subject formation and feelings of belonging in the context of educational experiences in Switzerland
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.
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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Especially in metropolises, various political programmes aim at commodifying the potential of migrant economies for urban development. Nevertheless, there is a gap in research concerning the importance of migrant economies for urban development in smaller cities. This article discusses the topic as an issue of research and local politics in a
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
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
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
Thomas Dörfler and Eberhard Rothfuß
Geogr. Helv., 73, 95-107, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-95-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-95-2018, 2018
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This article aims to explore the potential of Schütz' sociological phenomenology for spatial phenomena and its integration into human geography.
Although the influence and productivity of phenomenology in general could contribute significantly to shed light on spatial phenomena of the life-world, such as a
progressive sense of place, transnationalities, socio-spatial atmospheres,
homeand encounters, it has never become a major strand of contemporary (German speaking) human geography.
Itta Bauer and Sara Landolt
Geogr. Helv., 73, 43-48, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-43-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-43-2018, 2018
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This introduction to the special issue
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.
Jan Kemper
Geogr. Helv., 73, 49-61, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-49-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-49-2018, 2018
Raoul Kaenzig and Francisco Klauser
Geogr. Helv., 73, 63-73, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-63-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-63-2018, 2018
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Drawing upon police statistics, this paper explores the impacts of the videosurveillance cameras (CCTV) installed in November 2014 in the Pâquis neighborhood in Geneva. It focuses on the evolution of criminality within the filmed perimeter and nearby settings. In line with former studies, our results underline the limited preventive effects of the CCTV system. The analysis shows that cameras are inducing criminality displacement, mainly of drug trafficking.
Kathrin Hörschelmann
Geogr. Helv., 73, 31-42, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-31-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-31-2018, 2018
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This paper makes the case for greater consideration of the ways in which young people experience and negotiate transitions in their everyday lives and across the life course emotionally. Based on qualitative research with young people from the German city of Leipzig, the paper analyses the emotional fallout of interpersonal conflict, especially in families, and makes tentative suggestions for responding to young people's unbound emotional geographies in social and educational policy.
Itta Bauer
Geogr. Helv., 73, 19-30, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-19-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-19-2018, 2018
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This paper uses the concepts of
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.
Peter Dirksmeier
Geogr. Helv., 73, 11-17, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-11-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-73-11-2018, 2018
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Contemporary urban theory has less to say about internal processes of crowds for theoretical reflections on urbanity. The paper analyses the work on crowds by Peter Sloterdijk and the performative theory of assembly by Judith Butler to enrich contemporary thinking on urbanity in the South. The paper accentuates two arguments. Sloterdijk emphasises the `affective synthesis' of crowds, whereas Butler elaborates the performative effect of crowds to articulate the right of owning attested rights.
Simon Runkel and Jonathan Everts
Geogr. Helv., 72, 475-482, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-475-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-475-2017, 2017
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This short paper provides the initial provocation for a themed issue that emerges from a conference on the topic of geographies of social crises/crises of social geographies. We call for social geographers to engage with the historical and current dynamics of places and milieus to understand novel class societies and the violence that underpins social inequalities.
Christian A. Kull
Geogr. Helv., 72, 465-474, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-465-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-465-2017, 2017
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The concept
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.
Stefanie Föbker
Geogr. Helv., 72, 443-453, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-443-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-443-2017, 2017
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This paper addresses family migration amongst highly-skilled professionals. Many highly-skilled professionals who move abroad for career reasons are accompanied by partners and children. However, their integration processes are rarely discussed. The article is based on interviews with highly-skilled migrants and their accompanying partners in Germany and Great Britain. The results indicate that parents’ efforts for their children’s integration also have an effect on their own integration.
Katharina Paulus
Geogr. Helv., 72, 393-404, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-393-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-393-2017, 2017
Boris Michel
Geogr. Helv., 72, 377-387, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-377-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-377-2017, 2017
Frank Meyer and Judith Miggelbrink
Geogr. Helv., 72, 361-370, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-361-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-361-2017, 2017
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In many rural parts of Germany, secularization overlaps with outmigration and population decline. As a result, Christian churches face significant financial pressure in the rural areas near big cities due to plummeting numbers of parish members. Using a case study in the Evangelical Church in Central Germany, we argue that cooperation between different groups of belief helps local communities mitigating worsening socioeconomic circumstances and the withdrawal of finances and church staff.
Jürgen Hasse
Geogr. Helv., 72, 351-360, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-351-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-351-2017, 2017
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This article is written from the perspective of phenomenology. Its potential gain for a critical human geography is discussed in contrast to constructivism. The example of atmospheres will illustrate another theoretical conception of space. Atmospheres we feel like a cloud in our sense perception in situations of awareness. Finally there is a close link to the work of Michel Foucault as well as the Critical Theory (Frankfurter Schule).
Susann Schäfer
Geogr. Helv., 72, 341-350, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-341-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-341-2017, 2017
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This paper deals with climate change adaptation policy in South Korea. It shows that the implementation of the idea "adapting to climate change" has been highly influenced by the political structure and perception of how to deal with a problem that is highly uncertain. The implications of the research are that the implementation of a political agenda across different political systems requires
not only exchange of information but also guidance for institutional adjustments.
Sören Becker and Matthias Naumann
Geogr. Helv., 72, 329-339, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-329-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-329-2017, 2017
Thomas P. Funk
Geogr. Helv., 72, 317-328, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-317-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-317-2017, 2017
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In 2005 the beatification process of stigmatist Therese Neumann (1898–1962) and the development of her home town as a tourist destination started. The valorisation of a catholic cult as cultural heritage, the negotiation of new forms of EU-European governing by community, and the insistence of locals that the popular saint intervenes in the placemaking by supernatural means show postsecular placemaking as a conflicting process in which devotion is used as a resource as well as an impediment.
Jan Winkler
Geogr. Helv., 72, 303-316, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-303-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-303-2017, 2017
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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a German city, this paper addresses practices of governing Muslims and Islam within local politics. It analyses how the political technology of dialogue aims at the integration and formation of Muslim communities and is increasingly deploying the idea of interfaith relations. The paper discusses this approach as a governing through friendship: A practice of involvement that operates through trust-building and the fostering of personal acquaintances and ties.
Simon Runkel
Geogr. Helv., 72, 295-301, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-295-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-295-2017, 2017
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Based on a reading of the book „Was Räume mit uns machen – und wir mit ihnen. Kritische Phänomenologie des Raumes“ by J. Hasse (2014), the article discusses the noteworthy role of phenomenology within German-speaking human geography. The phenomenological work by Hasse and his close referring to the philosophy of H. Schmitz will be discussed in the context of the sociology of knowledge and the history of the discipline.
Stefanie Duttweiler
Geogr. Helv., 72, 283-294, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-283-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-283-2017, 2017
Francisco Klauser and Raoul Kaenzig
Geogr. Helv., 72, 271-282, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-271-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-271-2017, 2017
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Drawing upon two public opinion surveys conducted in Geneva in 2015 and 2016, the paper explores how video surveillance was lived and perceived by the residents of the monitored Pâquis area, as well as by the population at large. This study shows the system gradually loses its relevance in people's everyday life, which, in turn, limits the cameras' symbolic power to enduringly revitalize, and thus to properly re-territorialize, the monitored areas.
Sarah Klosterkamp and Paul Reuber
Geogr. Helv., 72, 255-269, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-255-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-255-2017, 2017
Marina Bertoncin and Andrea Pase
Geogr. Helv., 72, 243-254, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-243-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-243-2017, 2017
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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.
Francisco Klauser and Silvana Pedrozo
Geogr. Helv., 72, 231-239, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-231-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-231-2017, 2017
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Drawing upon a quantitative opinion survey conducted in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel in 2015, the paper provides insight into how far the current proliferation of private drones truly reaches. The paper also studies how the usage and societal diffusion of civil drones is perceived and lived by the population at large. Such a perspective is needed to understand the driving forces that shape current drone developments, and to explore the wider societal implications of the technology.
Huiwen Gong, Robert Hassink, and Gunnar Maus
Geogr. Helv., 72, 227-230, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-227-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-227-2017, 2017
Barbara Bitzi and Sara Landolt
Geogr. Helv., 72, 217-226, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-217-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-72-217-2017, 2017
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Drawing on ethnographic research in a center for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers (UAM) in Switzerland we explored educational experiences of UAM. Our results show that attending internal schools should be time-bound as it can hinder the recognition of UAM’s previously acquired educational knowledge. Further, UAM attending mainstream schools experience feelings of not belonging, which seem to be caused by having the life experiences of a UAM and stereotypes about refugees and asylum seekers.
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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.
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