Current theoretical debates on urbanization processes point to the need to re-examine the urban and the non-urban as categories as well as in their relationship to each other. This theoretical paper critically examines the current and inspiring debate on “planetary urbanization” and stresses the need to reconsider the corporeality of urban encounter, the relationship between urban and rural, and the contentious political practice involving land, territory, and property. It is argued that rural and urban spaces can be understood as political spaces that refer to specific ways of regulating and contesting land, territory and property, depending on the power relations prevailing in each case. Research questions are developed from conflating the theoretical perspective with the example of Brazilian urban and rural movements.
{"title":"Reassessing Urbanization Theory","authors":"Johanna Hoerning","doi":"10.25162/gz-2019-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2019-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Current theoretical debates on urbanization processes point to the need to re-examine the urban and the non-urban as categories as well as in their relationship to each other. This theoretical paper critically examines the current and inspiring debate on “planetary urbanization” and stresses the need to reconsider the corporeality of urban encounter, the relationship between urban and rural, and the contentious political practice involving land, territory, and property. It is argued that rural and urban spaces can be understood as political spaces that refer to specific ways of regulating and contesting land, territory and property, depending on the power relations prevailing in each case. Research questions are developed from conflating the theoretical perspective with the example of Brazilian urban and rural movements.","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69151576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Departing from calls for a Southern perspective in urban studies (Patel 2014), this paper discusses the social production of public spaces in Hanoi, the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Vietnam is on the threshold of becoming an urbanized society, with 36 % of the population living in urban areas and 1.2 million people moving to the city each year (Thanh Nien News 2016). Until recently, the state has always been predominant in any definition of urban landscapes (Thomas 2002, 1621; Ho Tai 1995, 273). However, with the introduction of economic reforms in 1986, urban dwellers have increasingly begun to challenge the state’s defining power. Drawing on Lefebvre’s (1991) tripartite system of space, this paper shows how urbanites continuously transform former spaces of officialdom into public spaces through their everyday practices. Based on ethnographic research in Vietnam, academic exchange and collaboration with Vietnamese scholars, and an analysis of Vietnamese secondary literature, this article questions long-established concepts of public space and the public sphere developed with reference to Northern cities. Finally, it proposes a model of public space in Hanoi comprising the three dimensions of the state, the private sphere, and the sacred.
{"title":"Multiple Publics in the Global South – a Lefebvrian Perspective on the Production of Public Space in Vietnam","authors":"Sandra Kurfürst","doi":"10.25162/gz-2019-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2019-0014","url":null,"abstract":"Departing from calls for a Southern perspective in urban studies (Patel 2014), this paper discusses the social production of public spaces in Hanoi, the capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Vietnam is on the threshold of becoming an urbanized society, with 36 % of the population living in urban areas and 1.2 million people moving to the city each year (Thanh Nien News 2016). Until recently, the state has always been predominant in any definition of urban landscapes (Thomas 2002, 1621; Ho Tai 1995, 273). However, with the introduction of economic reforms in 1986, urban dwellers have increasingly begun to challenge the state’s defining power. Drawing on Lefebvre’s (1991) tripartite system of space, this paper shows how urbanites continuously transform former spaces of officialdom into public spaces through their everyday practices. Based on ethnographic research in Vietnam, academic exchange and collaboration with Vietnamese scholars, and an analysis of Vietnamese secondary literature, this article questions long-established concepts of public space and the public sphere developed with reference to Northern cities. Finally, it proposes a model of public space in Hanoi comprising the three dimensions of the state, the private sphere, and the sacred.","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69151599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographische Entwicklungsforschung: Wer was sagt Eine Replik auf den Debattenbeitrag von Antje Schlottmann in der GZ 3/2018","authors":"T. Rauch","doi":"10.25162/gz-2018-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2018-0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69151384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper contributes to the history of German-speaking geography and the quantitative-theoretical turn. Instead of focusing on the history of ideas and theories, the article looks more closely at the geographic approach to the city and the early urban geography. We aim to show how the objects of geographical research and problematization are making theories and modes of thinking plausible. We argue that it is helpful to write the history of science along the objects of geographical research. The object, which helped making quantitative-theoretical thinking plausible and thus got plausible itself, we argue, is the city.
{"title":"„Das komplizierteste Glied unserer hochorganisierten Kulturlandschaft“","authors":"J. Braun, Boris Michel","doi":"10.25162/GZ-2019-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/GZ-2019-0005","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to the history of German-speaking geography and the quantitative-theoretical turn. Instead of focusing on the history of ideas and theories, the article looks more closely at the geographic approach to the city and the early urban geography. We aim to show how the objects of geographical research and problematization are making theories and modes of thinking plausible. We argue that it is helpful to write the history of science along the objects of geographical research. The object, which helped making quantitative-theoretical thinking plausible and thus got plausible itself, we argue, is the city.","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69151656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article discusses potentials and risks of the focus group as a method of human geography. Firstly, we aim to clarify the extent to which focus groups are suitable for efficiently opening up new fields of analysis. Secondly, it is to be determined whether the method of the focus group will involve the participants more closely in the research processes. Thirdly, we analyze the specific “geographic” aspects of focus groups. The basis of our contribution is, on the one hand, a review of the socio-scientific and human-geographic literature on focus groups and on the other hand the critical analysis of our experiences with the implementation of focus groups in two research projects in the field of energy geography. The paper concludes that the focus group is a demanding method which - unlike often postulated - is not per se characterized by a particular efficiency and participation. Its particular advantages are, in contrast, to combine context-related experiences and information in the form of a guided group discussion. Geographical realities (territories, places, scales and networks) are produced and reproduced with regard to their actor constellations and power relations.
{"title":"Effizient und partizipativ?","authors":"L. Gailing, M. Naumann","doi":"10.25162/GZ-2019-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/GZ-2019-0006","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses potentials and risks of the focus group as a method of human geography. Firstly, we aim to clarify the extent to which focus groups are suitable for efficiently opening up new fields of analysis. Secondly, it is to be determined whether the method of the focus group will involve the participants more closely in the research processes. Thirdly, we analyze the specific “geographic” aspects of focus groups. The basis of our contribution is, on the one hand, a review of the socio-scientific and human-geographic literature on focus groups and on the other hand the critical analysis of our experiences with the implementation of focus groups in two research projects in the field of energy geography. The paper concludes that the focus group is a demanding method which - unlike often postulated - is not per se characterized by a particular efficiency and participation. Its particular advantages are, in contrast, to combine context-related experiences and information in the form of a guided group discussion. Geographical realities (territories, places, scales and networks) are produced and reproduced with regard to their actor constellations and power relations.","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69151670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Qualification strategies in processes of regional restructuring","authors":"Gerhard Rainer, J. Kister, C. Steiner","doi":"10.25162/gz-2019-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2019-0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69151723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arbeitsbezogene Migration von Hochqualifizierten","authors":"Annalena Müller, J. Plöger","doi":"10.25162/gz-2019-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2019-0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69151956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who has the right to be remembered?","authors":"C. Hintermann","doi":"10.25162/GZ-2019-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/GZ-2019-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69151405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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