Geographien sozialer Krisen/Krisen sozialer Geographien

Runkel, Simon; Everts, Jonathan

doi:10.5194/gh-72-475-2017

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“…This phenomenon is further fueled by a growing skepticism towards liberal democracies (in particular by right-wing populists), the financial crisis of 2008, and the growing awareness of ecological deterioration, in particular of climate change, and its manifold consequences. Crises and disasters have thus become part of a 'new normal' and float freely from one topic and situation to the other, while they are being connected to either dystopian, pessimistic scenarios or progressive, transformative and utopian political claims (Runkel and Everts, 2017). Despite an apparent effect of habituation (Grammelsberger, 2013), these 'exceptionalist' narratives thus inhere a strong political momentum, since they are often tied to the claiming or the reinforcement of political power and sovereignty (Hempel and Markwart, 2013).…”

Section: Of Crises and Disastersmentioning

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Rethinking democracy in times of crises: Towards a pragmatist approach to the geographies of emerging publics

Fladvad¹

2021

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How do societies respond to ‘super wicked’ problems that often occur at very large spatial and temporal scales? On the one hand, there exists a tendency to conceive of liberal democracy as inconvenient, inflexible and as incapable of dealing with complex and elusive issues such as climate change or questions of environmental injustice. On the other, these issues have given rise to manifold ‘emerging public spheres’ inside and outside existing democratic institutions. Since both of these tendencies refer to the idea of sustainability, this contribution discusses the relationships between different future trajectories of sustainability and democracy in particular with regards to their inherent spatialities. Building on this, and following the works of contemporary political theorists and human geographers, it suggests conceptualizing democracy from a pragmatist point of view as coined by the North American philosopher John Dewey. In doing so, it becomes possible to reframe democracy in the Anthropocene and to conceive of it as an ever-evolving phenomenon of problem-solving communities that convene around different issues of shared concern. This perspective allows thinking beyond theorizations of global democracy, in favor of a democratic model that shows openness for social complexity and uncertainty and which accepts that the spaces of democratic action are not given from the outset but that they are brought into being by the emerging publics themselves.

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Section: Of Crises and Disastersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking democracy in times of crises: Towards a pragmatist approach to the geographies of emerging publics

Fladvad¹

2021

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“…praktiziert. Nicht von ungefähr wird bereits lange vor der gegenwärtigen Debatte um rechte Einstellungen von Beschäftigten auf das repressiv-naturalisierende framing der sich glokal vervielfältigenden dark sides ökonomischer Entwicklung in den betrieblichen Alltagsdiskursen und -praktiken verwiesen (Zoll, 1984;Zeuner et al, 2007;Stöss, 2017;Sauer et al, 2018;Dörre, 2019;Hürtgen, 2014Hürtgen, , 2020b.…”

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Glokalisierung und Feminisierung: Zur strukturellen Krise von Lohnarbeit im europäischen Raum

Hürtgen

2021

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. The article discusses the glocalized socio-spatial form of European production as socially crisis-ridden. Combining literature from transnational production network theory, critical political economy, labour process theory and feminist geography the article shows that a European production regime has developed which is based on the transnationalization of economic and competitive parameters on the one hand and multiscalar social fragmentation of labour processes on the other. Its very logic is, hence, functional economic integration based on labour's socio-spatial disintegration. The regime pushes for what we can call the feminization of work because it systematically cuts the former, patriarchal and uneven connection between waged work and socio-political integration. As feminist debates show, progressive perspectives have to be transnational and multiscalar and they have to include fundamental questions about the concept and status of work in society.

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“…In der deutschsprachigen Geographie hat sich diese Vielfalt kritischer Geographien vor allem unter dem revolutionären Habitus der "Neuen Kulturgeographie" versammelt (Steinbrink and Aufenvenne, 2017). Diese kritische Geographie ist weitgehend zum Mainstream innerhalb der Humangeographie geworden (Runkel und Everts, 2017;Steinbrink und Aufenvenne, 2017).…”

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Korf

2019

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. This paper takes Foucault's and Sloterdijk's reception of the Greek cynics as an intellectual resource to critically examine critical geography's moralizing high ground. I analyse how, in 1983, Foucault and Sloterdijk paint the cynical impulse as a political practice of provocative truth-telling against the moral high-grounds of the dogmatic left of the 1970s: For Foucault and Sloterdijk, the cynics are anti-dogmatic, anti-theoretical and anti-scholastic. I will argue, however, that the cynical impulse is itself in danger of speaking from the moral high ground of anti-critique, a disposition that needs the anti-dote of skepticism.

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Geographien sozialer Krisen/Krisen sozialer Geographien

Cited by 8 publications

References 47 publications

Rethinking democracy in times of crises: Towards a pragmatist approach to the geographies of emerging publics

Rethinking democracy in times of crises: Towards a pragmatist approach to the geographies of emerging publics

Glokalisierung und Feminisierung: Zur strukturellen Krise von Lohnarbeit im europäischen Raum

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