Personal experiences gained while working as a human geographer in three countries form the basis for reflections on two key areas: recent developments in the ongoing neoliberalization of higher education, and the place of critical cultural and social theory, especially as connected with newly controversial ‘diversity politics’, both inside and outside the academy. In the first case, a differentiated view of the various forms taken by educational neoliberalization is recommended, both for understanding what has happened and for discerning possibilities for an exit from further neoliberal “flailing and failing forward” (Peck, Theodore and Brenner 2012, 274). Secondly, the ‘liberal backlash’, promoted in part by academics, that blames such upheavals as Brexit and the election of Trump in part upon diversity politics and the academic cultural theory with which it is often associated, is identified as a major challenge. Academics must be active in confronting the distorted representations and harmful intellectual politics emanating from this backlash. Across both areas discussed, a vigorous defense of the value and legitimacy of critical social and cultural theory is needed.
{"title":"Surviving neo-liberalism and the liberal backlash","authors":"M. Hannah","doi":"10.25162/GZ-2018-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/GZ-2018-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Personal experiences gained while working as a human geographer in three countries form the basis for reflections on two key areas: recent developments in the ongoing neoliberalization of higher education, and the place of critical cultural and social theory, especially as connected with newly controversial ‘diversity politics’, both inside and outside the academy. In the first case, a differentiated view of the various forms taken by educational neoliberalization is recommended, both for understanding what has happened and for discerning possibilities for an exit from further neoliberal “flailing and failing forward” (Peck, Theodore and Brenner 2012, 274). Secondly, the ‘liberal backlash’, promoted in part by academics, that blames such upheavals as Brexit and the election of Trump in part upon diversity politics and the academic cultural theory with which it is often associated, is identified as a major challenge. Academics must be active in confronting the distorted representations and harmful intellectual politics emanating from this backlash. Across both areas discussed, a vigorous defense of the value and legitimacy of critical social and cultural theory is needed.","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69150064","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}
Dieser Beitrag entwickelt eine immanente Kritik an der Arbeit des globalen Entwicklungsapparates, die dessen grundlegende Krisenhaftigkeit analytisch im Begriff der ,,Ironie der Entwicklung" erfasst – als dialektische Widerspruchlichkeit zwischen Moraluberschuss (Absichten) und Scheitern (Handlungsfolgen). Diese Ironie zeigt sich in einer manipulativen Vernunft (Musto), andere auch gegen ihren Willen glucklich zu machen, die in der Form einer Gabenokonomie global institutionalisiert ist. Diese ,,systemische" Ironie kann unterschiedlich gelesen werden: die externe Kritik einer distanzierenden ironischen Haltung, wie sie der Dekonstruktivismus des post-development pflegt, kann darin nur die ,,Bosartigkeit" des Entwicklungsapparates erkennen. Eine immanente Kritik ,,ohne Besserwisserei" (Jaeggi) macht eine empathische ironische Haltung der Kritikerin gegenuber dem Entwicklungsapparat erforderlich und sucht eher eine produktive hermeneutische Spannung zwischen Kritik und moralischem Engagement.
{"title":"Die Ironie der Entwicklungstheorie","authors":"B. Korf","doi":"10.25162/GZ-2018-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/GZ-2018-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Dieser Beitrag entwickelt eine immanente Kritik an der Arbeit des globalen Entwicklungsapparates, die dessen grundlegende Krisenhaftigkeit analytisch im Begriff der ,,Ironie der Entwicklung\" erfasst – als dialektische Widerspruchlichkeit zwischen Moraluberschuss (Absichten) und Scheitern (Handlungsfolgen). Diese Ironie zeigt sich in einer manipulativen Vernunft (Musto), andere auch gegen ihren Willen glucklich zu machen, die in der Form einer Gabenokonomie global institutionalisiert ist. Diese ,,systemische\" Ironie kann unterschiedlich gelesen werden: die externe Kritik einer distanzierenden ironischen Haltung, wie sie der Dekonstruktivismus des post-development pflegt, kann darin nur die ,,Bosartigkeit\" des Entwicklungsapparates erkennen. Eine immanente Kritik ,,ohne Besserwisserei\" (Jaeggi) macht eine empathische ironische Haltung der Kritikerin gegenuber dem Entwicklungsapparat erforderlich und sucht eher eine produktive hermeneutische Spannung zwischen Kritik und moralischem Engagement.","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69151293","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":"Risikokontroversen: Mobiles Risiko und Notfallorganisation bei Gefahrguttransporten auf der Bahnlinie „Betuweroute“","authors":"Florian M. Neisser","doi":"10.25162/gz-2017-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2017-0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69149082","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":"Freundschaft – ein Beitrag zum private turn in der Sozialgeographie","authors":"Peter Dirksmeier","doi":"10.25162/gz-2017-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2017-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69149095","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}
Enlightenment notions of science and technology have been crucial to imperial and colonial endeavors. They have come to stand for modernization and progress in a Eurocentric development agenda; later on, they have turned into the central objects of post-development and post-colonial critiques. While post-development approaches tend to romanticize indigenous and local knowledges, some of the most recent development initiatives return to a glorify (global) science and technology as the solution for development. This paper critically engages with these narratives about science and technology and introduces (postcolonial) science and technology studies (STS) as a perspective that challenges such binary ways of dealing with science and technology in development contexts. By doing so it contributes to recent debates about the role of science and technology for development and gives new inspiration for a theoretically inclined development geography.
{"title":"Wissenschaft und Technologie im Zentrum der Geographischen Entwicklungsforschung","authors":"C. Schurr, Julia Verne","doi":"10.7892/BORIS.119198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7892/BORIS.119198","url":null,"abstract":"Enlightenment notions of science and technology have been crucial to imperial and colonial endeavors. They have come to stand for modernization and progress in a Eurocentric development agenda; later on, they have turned into the central objects of post-development and post-colonial critiques. While post-development approaches tend to romanticize indigenous and local knowledges, some of the most recent development initiatives return to a glorify (global) science and technology as the solution for development. This paper critically engages with these narratives about science and technology and introduces (postcolonial) science and technology studies (STS) as a perspective that challenges such binary ways of dealing with science and technology in development contexts. By doing so it contributes to recent debates about the role of science and technology for development and gives new inspiration for a theoretically inclined development geography.","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71357478","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":"Eine Einbahnstraße? – Über Möglichkeiten der Beeinflussung von Touristifizierung am Beispiel von San Telmo, Buenos Aires","authors":"Jan Dohnke","doi":"10.25162/gz-2017-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2017-0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69149430","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}
Relating individual and local ways of consumption to global social and ecological issues has become more and more common in recent years, a phenomenon which can also be understood as a rescaling of political participation. Using a poststructural approach of subjectivation/subjectivity, I suggest to understand the increasing awareness of the origin of commodities as the result of a twofold process: on the one hand there is discursive empowerment, on the other hand, there is performative enactment; both lead to the emergence of consciously acting consumers, the crucial technology being the negotiation and questioning of personal wants and needs. In the following paper, I want to show this point by drawing on both ethnographic and netnographic fieldwork with users of a social network who refer to themselves as „conscious consumers“. It concludes by discussing the idea of empowering consumers through rescaled political participation.
{"title":"„Was brauche ich wirklich?“ Konsumgewissen, Selbsttechnologien und raumsensibler Konsum","authors":"Yusif Idies","doi":"10.25162/gz-2017-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2017-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Relating individual and local ways of consumption to global social and ecological issues has become more and more common in recent years, a phenomenon which can also be understood as a rescaling of political participation. Using a poststructural approach of subjectivation/subjectivity, I suggest to understand the increasing awareness of the origin of commodities as the result of a twofold process: on the one hand there is discursive empowerment, on the other hand, there is performative enactment; both lead to the emergence of consciously acting consumers, the crucial technology being the negotiation and questioning of personal wants and needs. In the following paper, I want to show this point by drawing on both ethnographic and netnographic fieldwork with users of a social network who refer to themselves as „conscious consumers“. It concludes by discussing the idea of empowering consumers through rescaled political participation.","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69148855","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":"Re-Imaging the Post-Conflict Quarter: Tourismus in Westbelfast seit dem Abschluss des Karfreitagsabkommens","authors":"H. Bertram","doi":"10.25162/gz-2017-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2017-0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69149351","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":"Soziale Innovation oder Business as Usual?","authors":"Julia Poerting","doi":"10.25162/gz-2017-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2017-0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35646,"journal":{"name":"Geographische Zeitschrift","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69149652","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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