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- Peripherien, Konflikte, Transformationen – Perspektiven einer
kritischen Energiegeographie
Abstract: Peripherien, Konflikte, Transformationen – Perspektiven einer kritischen Energiegeographie
Matthias Naumann, Sören Becker, and Antje Bruns
Geogr. Helv., 80, 99–107, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-99-2025, 2025
This introduction presents the fields of peripheries, conflicts and transformations as core topics of critical energy geographies. These fields point to different ways how the provision of energy is interwoven with social inequalities and uneven spatial development. Tackling the relations between energy technology and social power, the contributions to this Theme Issue highlight how power and resistance unfold in different spatial contexts and are linked to various notions of justice.
PubDate: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:53:42 +020
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-99-2025 2025
- Book review: Atlas des migrations dans le monde
Abstract: Book review: Atlas des migrations dans le monde
Florent Chossière
Geogr. Helv., 80, 95–97, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-95-2025, 2025
PubDate: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:28:50 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-95-2025 2025
- Geographien des Verlusts auf dem Tierfriedhof: Tote Tiere zwischen
Subjekt, Objekt und Abjekt
Abstract: Geographien des Verlusts auf dem Tierfriedhof: Tote Tiere zwischen Subjekt, Objekt und Abjekt
Elisa Kornherr
Geogr. Helv., 80, 81–94, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-81-2025, 2025
Empirical research on pet cemeteries demonstrates that ambivalent attributions to pets as social partners, material objects, and abject cadavers shape the place and related practices. Situated within the frameworks of more-than-human geographies and animal geographies, the article argues (1) that analysing the multidimensional status of dead animals provides a productive lens for understanding human-animal relations and illustrates (2) how loss processing can be read in a more-than-human way.
PubDate: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 07:08:53 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-81-2025 2025
- Designing landscapes of affordances for ageing in place
Abstract: Designing landscapes of affordances for ageing in place
Ola Söderström, Tania Zittoun, Fabienne Gfeller, Aurora Ruggeri, and Isabelle Kloepper
Geogr. Helv., 80, 67–79, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-67-2025, 2025
This article contributes to studies on and interventions in the quality of old persons' everyday environments. First, it draws on work in geography and psychology to develop an innovative theoretical and methodological framework for interventions aiming to improve the quality of this environment. Second, it shows, step by step, how this framework was used in the context of a project in Switzerland targeting the prevention of old people's social isolation.
PubDate: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 05:56:43 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-67-2025 2025
- Verlust lokalisieren: Auf der Suche nach einem unvergänglichen Objekt
in Aleppo
Abstract: Verlust lokalisieren: Auf der Suche nach einem unvergänglichen Objekt in Aleppo
Zoya Masoud
Geogr. Helv., 80, 57–65, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-57-2025, 2025
The loss was commonplace in Aleppo during the recent war. This paper explores how various groups at the front lines in East Aleppo sought to preserve heritage to reconstruct it after the war. I argue that these individuals were exposed to existential fear. Their efforts to localize grief and loss imagined the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the old city of Aleppo as an eternal object that preceded their human life span. In exile, their attitudes diverted toward this legacy.
PubDate: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:52:55 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-57-2025 2025
- Philanthrokapitalistisches Engagement in der Stadt. Memetische, hörbare
und kartographische Perspektiven auf Heilbronn
Abstract: Philanthrokapitalistisches Engagement in der Stadt. Memetische, hörbare und kartographische Perspektiven auf Heilbronn
Katharina Schmidt and Iris Veronica Restrepo Lopez
Geogr. Helv., 80, 39–55, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-39-2025, 2025
Using memes, maps, and audio collages, we discuss the politics of giving and its impact on urban development in the city of Heilbronn. Focusing on the activities of one powerful philanthropist, the perspectives of local residents reveal ambivalent interpretations of recent urban developments. While acknowledging the new opportunities and dynamics offered by philanthropy, they also raise concerns about its effects on local democratic decision-making processes and unequal urban power relations.
PubDate: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 07:34:34 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-39-2025 2025
- Book review: The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations
Abstract: Book review: The Wealth of Cities and the Poverty of Nations
Bernd Belina
Geogr. Helv., 80, 35–37, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-35-2025, 2025
PubDate: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:12:37 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-35-2025 2025
- Book review: Geographie ländlicher Räume
Abstract: Book review: Geographie ländlicher Räume
Thomas Hammer
Geogr. Helv., 80, 31–33, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-31-2025, 2025
PubDate: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 11:48:44 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-31-2025 2025
- Doing urban geography in times of crisis: introduction to the forum
“Urban geography in times of crisis”
Abstract: Doing urban geography in times of crisis: introduction to the forum “Urban geography in times of crisis”
Hanna Hilbrandt and Julie Ren
Geogr. Helv., 80, 23–29, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-23-2025, 2025
The forum Urban geography in times of crisis discusses the transformation of urban geography in the entanglement of epistemological and worldly crises. In our introductory reflections, we highlight some of its contributions' crosscutting insights, weave a common thread through this dialogue, and discuss obstacles to as well as critical resources necessary when rethinking and possibly changing practices of knowledge production.
PubDate: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:39:05 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-23-2025 2025
- Book review: Ländliche Utopien – Herausforderungen und Alternativen
regionaler Entwicklungen
Abstract: Book review: Ländliche Utopien – Herausforderungen und Alternativen regionaler Entwicklungen
Flavian Pichonnat and Ellena Brandner
Geogr. Helv., 80, 19–21, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-19-2025, 2025
PubDate: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:39:05 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-19-2025 2025
- Insurrections in Iran: an off-site ethnography
Abstract: Insurrections in Iran: an off-site ethnography
Chowra Makaremi
Geogr. Helv., 80, 9–17, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-9-2025, 2025
The text explores the challenges and methods of research in repressive contexts, through the case of the Woman, Life, Freedom uprisings in Iran. Drawing on a study of post-revolutionary Iran, it discusses the production of empirical knowledge without direct presence, through digital tools and archival practices. Examining images, discourses and acts of revolt, such as unveiling, it analyzes a radical shift in collective values, affects, belongings and the relations between state and society.
PubDate: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:41:36 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-9-2025 2025
- Book review: Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie
Abstract: Book review: Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie
Johann Braun
Geogr. Helv., 80, 5–7, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-5-2025, 2025
PubDate: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:11:48 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-5-2025 2025
- Book review: The Politics of Place Naming: Naming the World
Abstract: Book review: The Politics of Place Naming: Naming the World
Felix de Montety
Geogr. Helv., 80, 1–3, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-1-2025, 2025
PubDate: Fri, 03 Jan 2025 07:20:26 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-80-1-2025 2025
- Illustrating qualitative research findings: the reflexive and epistemic
potential of experimental visualization
Abstract: Illustrating qualitative research findings: the reflexive and epistemic potential of experimental visualization
Lea Bauer and Sarah Ruth Sippel
Geogr. Helv., 79, 373–389, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-373-2024, 2024
Drawing on auto-ethnographically documented experimental visualization practices and in conversation with critical cartography and the debates on diagrammatic reasoning in the arts, this paper argues that visualization should be considered more systematically as a method that bears self-reflexive and epistemic potential within qualitative research processes.
PubDate: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:52:29 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-79-373-2024 2024
- Wärmewende in der multiplen Krise – die Rolle der Gasindustrie und die
Kämpfe um eine sozial-ökologische Transformation der Wärmeversorgung
Abstract: Wärmewende in der multiplen Krise – die Rolle der Gasindustrie und die Kämpfe um eine sozial-ökologische Transformation der Wärmeversorgung
Hendrik Sander
Geogr. Helv., 79, 357–371, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-357-2024, 2024
In the struggles on the decarbonization of the mainly fossil-based heat supply in German cities competing actors and corporations try to achieve their strategies. Especially in Berlin these debates are fierce. Those disputes crystallize in the question whether the corporate gas-based infrastructure will be adjusted by means of green gases resp. hydrogen or whether it will be transformed to a new system based on renewable energies resp. heatpumps.
PubDate: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:55:29 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-79-357-2024 2024
- “We learn Latin, they learn to cook”: students', principals', and
teachers' coproductions of exclusive public secondary schools
Abstract: “We learn Latin, they learn to cook”: students', principals', and teachers' coproductions of exclusive public secondary schools
Carlotta Reh and Sara Landolt
Geogr. Helv., 79, 343–356, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-343-2024, 2024
Focusing on Gymnasia, Zurich's selective public secondary schools, this article analyzes how Gymnasium staff and education policies address students and how students perceive the Gymnasia. Students learn to see Gymnasia as stellar schools for hard-working and intelligent students who earned their privileges and coproduce and legitimize their privileged status by drawing on their merit. These processes contribute to a hierarchization of Zurich's schooling landscape.
PubDate: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 07:52:37 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-79-343-2024 2024
- Book review: Beyond Molotovs – a visual handbook of
anti-authoritarian strategies
Abstract: Book review: Beyond Molotovs – a visual handbook of anti-authoritarian strategies
Nora Mariella Küttel
Geogr. Helv., 79, 341–342, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-341-2024, 2024
PubDate: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:42:34 +010
DOI: 10.5194/gh-79-341-2024 2024
- Oral history in geographischer Forschung: Emotionen und Verlust in
Erfahrungsgeschichten ehemaliger Werftarbeiter:innen erforschen
Abstract: Oral history in geographischer Forschung: Emotionen und Verlust in Erfahrungsgeschichten ehemaliger Werftarbeiter:innen erforschen
Nora Mariella Küttel
Geogr. Helv., 79, 325–339, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-325-2024, 2024
This article explores people's narratives about changing shipyard work in East Germany since 1989. The shipyard serves as a central place where loss, emotions and memory condense. Using oral history interviews with former workers, it delves into their experiences and emotions about (the fear of) losing their jobs. This sheds light on how transformations affect people emotionally, highlighting oral history's role in capturing personal experiences in geographic research.
PubDate: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 10:38:32 +020
DOI: 10.5194/gh-79-325-2024 2024
- Breakdowns, (Un-)Sichtbarkeiten und glitches. Kritische Geographien der
Resilienz digitaler Infrastrukturen
Abstract: Breakdowns, (Un-)Sichtbarkeiten und glitches. Kritische Geographien der Resilienz digitaler Infrastrukturen
Boris Michel and Finn Dammann
Geogr. Helv., 79, 311–323, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-311-2024, 2024
Critical geographers in recent years became interested incidents of failure, disruption and glitches in digital technologies. While we sympathize with the basic assumptions of this discussion this paper proposes an opposing perspective. Using the example of Internet infrastructures, we focus on the work of preventing glitches and maintanance. We are particularly interested in the production of resilience the rationalities of redundancy and addressing latency.
PubDate: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:49:09 +020
DOI: 10.5194/gh-79-311-2024 2024
- The academic publishing system in crises: absences in international urban
studies
Abstract: The academic publishing system in crises: absences in international urban studies
Nadine Appelhans
Geogr. Helv., 79, 305–309, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-305-2024, 2024
This paper argues that varied perspectives on the multiple crises from the Global South and Global East are underrepresented in international urban-study publishing. In these regions, the crisis is exacerbated by the relative lack of data addressing urban issues. This absence underlines the importance of the international publishing system but justifies urgency to engage with a wider range of perspectives while also pointing towards a need to support local publishing structures.
PubDate: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:34:54 +020
DOI: 10.5194/gh-79-305-2024 2024
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