Description: Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. The aim of this paper is to outline a genealogy of the concept of Lebensraum. It will focus on the way that Darwinian evolutionary thought was translated into 19th Century German geography, particularly in the work of Friedrich Ratzel and his formulation of the concept of Lebensraum. The paper argues that the Ratzelian Lebensraum must be viewed as a concept aimed towards a synthesis between b...
Abrahamsson, C.: Review of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, by Jane Bennett, Dialogues in Human Geography, 1, 399–402, 2011.; Barnes, T. J.: Notes from the underground: why the history of economic geography matters: the case of Central Place Theory, Econ. Geogr., 88, 1–26, 2012.; Barnes, T. J. and Abrahamsson, C.: No comedy, only tragedy: the Haushofers, father and son, and the spaces of Nazi geopolitics, RGS-IBG, Edinburgh, 2012.; Bassin, M.: Imperialism a...
Description: Universität Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland. No abstract available.
Description: Departement de geographie, Faculte des Sciences economiques et sociales, Universite de Geneve, Boulevard du Pont d'Arve 40, 1211 Geneve 4, Suisse. Comme un grand nombre d'autres types de régions et de milieux, les montagnes sont concernées par le rÔle croissant des initiatives internationales et transnationales. Si les initiatives intergouvernementales sont relativement bien connues, il n'en est pas de mÊme des formes de coopération et des réseaux initi...
Description: Poudriére 3, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. No abstract available.
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Description: FWR-HSG, Forschungsstelle für Wirtschaftsgeographie und Raumplanung, Postfach, 9011 St.Gallen, Switzerland. No abstract available.
Description: Institut für Geographie, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstr. 55. 20146 Hamburg, Germany. Menschliche Körper und Räume sind wechselseitig aufeinander bezogen und sehr ähnlichen gesellschaftlichen Konstitutionsbedingungen unterworfen. Dessen ungeachtet wurde der Körper mit seinen Bedeutungen für die Konstruktion und Aneignung von Räumen in der Geographie bisher kaum thematisiert. Dieser Beitrag widmet sich aus feministisch-poststrukturalistischer Perspektive ...
Description: Institut de Géographie de I'Université de Fribourg/Geographisches Institut der Universität Freiburg. Pérolles. 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. The aim of Swiss land use planning is to guarantee an expedient and economical use ofthe land and an orderly development of the country. Therefore. land use planning has to designate areas suitable for optimal economic development. The possiblility of climate change poses a special challenge for land use planners. This...
Description: University of Fribourg, Department of Geosciences, Geography, Chemin du Musée 4, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. Variations in surface and near-surface ground temperatures (GST) dominate the evolution of the ground thermal regime over time and represent the upper boundary condition for the subsurface. Focusing on the Lapires talus slope in the south-western part of the Swiss Alps, which partly contains massive ground ice, and using a joint observational and ...
Apaloo, J., Brenning, A., and Bodin, X.: Interactions between Seasonal Snow Cover, Ground Surface Temperature and Topography (Andes of Santiago, Chile, 33.5° S), Permafrost Periglac., 23, 277–291, doi:10.1002/ppp.1753, 2012.; Arenson, L., Hoelzle, M., and Springman, S.: Borehole deformation measurements and internal structure of some rock glaciers in Switzerland, Permafrost Periglac., 13, 117–135,
Description: Kerenzerbergstraße 27, 8753 Mollis, Switzerland. No abstract available.
Description: Lehrstuhl für Bevölkerungs- und Sozialgeographie, Universität Bayreuth, Universitätsstrasse 30, 95447 Bayreuth. In diesem Beitrag über den ungleichen Zugang zu Trinkwasser stehen die sozialen und politischen Beziehungen sowie die damit verbundene symbolische Bedeutung des Wassers im Mittelpunkt. Auf Basis der relationalen Handlungstheorie von Bourdieu wird gezeigt, wie Wasser als Mittel verwendet wird, soziale Differenzierung symbolisch auszudrücken be...
Description: Universität Bremen, Institut für Geographie, Bibliothekstr. 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany. Postcolonial scholars are interested in mapping landscapes of power and identity. In doing so, they focus on the historic entanglements between North and South as well as on the unequal power relations and living conditions of the present. Despite sharing common interests, German-speaking development geography has been reluctant so far to incorporate postcolonial persp...
Anderson, B.: Die Erfindung der Nation. Zur Karriere eines folgenreichen Konzepts, Campus, Frankfurt a. Main, New York, 1988.; Bhabha, H. K.: The Postcolonial and the Postmodern: The Question of Agency, in: The Location of Culture, Herausgeber: Bhabha, H. K., London, New York, 171–197, 1994.; Blenck, J.: Geographische Entwicklungsforschung, in: Geographische Beiträge zur Entwicklungsländer-Forschung – DGFK-Hefte 12, Herausgeber: Hottes, K., Bonn-Bad Godesberg, 11–20, 197...
Description: School of Geography and Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. No abstract available.
Buttimer, A.: Grasping the dynamisms of the lifeworld, Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr., 66, 277–92, 1976.; Derrida, J.: Plato's Pharmacy, in: Dissemination, trans. B. Johnson, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 61–172, 1981.; Derrida, J.: White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text of Philosophy, Margins of Philosophy, trans, Alan Bass, Chicago: U of Chicago P, 207–72, 1982.; Elden, S.: Contributions to geography? The spaces of Heidegger's Beiträge, Environ. Plann. D, 23, 811–827, 2...
Description: Hauptstraße 69, 4107 Ettingen, Switzerland. No abstract available.