B Michel

Datos Biográficos

ID5785
NOMBREB Michel
NOMBRESB
APELLIDOMichel
FIRMAMICHEL B
AFILIACIONESFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
ORCID0000-0002-4329-3064
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS64
TOTAL DE CITAS125
TOTAL COMO AUTOR64
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1936
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H6

  • Metro Manila's digital infrastructure ecosystem. Insights into critical data centre studies in the majority world

    Open AccessB Michel, Finn DammannARTICLEDigital Geography and Society2026

    This article contributes to the growing field of critical data centre studies. A key contribution of these debates is to understand data centres as powerful socio-technical assemblages and as an infrastructural foundation of digital worlds. This interdisciplinary research highlights the role of data centres in materialising, fixing, and embedding data flows, and it brings to the fore the geographies, politics, economies, and environmental relatio…

  • Hydrocartography in Times of Menacing Waters

    Open AccessPaul Schweizer, Bibiana Pereira da Silva et al.ARTICLEGeo Geography and Environment2026Referencias: 14

    Maps have long been used to deal with menacing waters, to make them comprehensible and governable. Cartography and governing water are both deeply entangled in modernist rationalities and modes of control. This paper takes as its starting point the floods that have affected southern Brazil in recent years and the scientific and journalistic maps that have emerged around them. Following hydrofeminist and political ecology debates, it argues for a …

  • Anti-breast cancer effects of Pterocarpus soyauxii Taub aqueous extract and its compounds by integrating Admet, network pharmacology, molecular docking, dynamic simulation, CLC-Pred and pdCSM-Cancer/P…

    Open AccessPascal Emmanuel Owona, Owona Pascal Emmanuel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology2025

  • Geomediatization and the Messy Futuring of Geodata Commons

    Open AccessB MichelARTICLEMedia and Communication2024

    The concept of geomediatization has proven to be productive for describing current processes of geodatafication and geospatial technologies. With its focus on their future, this thematic issue calls for research into geomediatization beyond a narrow geomediatization realism. In my commentary, I take up this call and present some reflections from my research on recent corporate involvement in OpenStreetMap and the messy politics of digital commons…

  • Seeing economic development like a large language model. A methodological approach to the exploration of geographical imaginaries in generative AI

    Open AccessB Michel, Yannick EckerARTICLEGeoforum2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 5

  • "Der Park als Problemraum". Regieren städtischer Drogenkulturen am Beispiel des Görlitzer Parks

    Open AccessFrederieke Westerheide, B MichelARTICLEGeographica Helvetica2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 61

    The governing of urban drug use and its economies represents a central aspect of urban governmentality and has played an important role in the production and control of public space in numerous cities of the Global North since the 1970s. Urban drug cultures are often the subject of moral panics and urban policing. At the same time, geographical engagement with the spatial dimensions and effects of governing urban drug cultures is surprisingly rar…

  • Kritisches Kartieren als reflexive Praxis qualitativer Forschung

    Open AccessB MichelARTICLEGeographica Helvetica2022

    Both qualitative research in geography and visual geographies have an ambivalent relationship to maps and cartographic methods. Reasons for this include discourse-theoretical approaches to maps and cartography since the 1980s, the tension between the self-images of modern cartography and the methodological perspectives of qualitative approaches, the relationship between map and image, or the role of technology in cartography and GIS. On the one h…

  • Cartographic imaginaries of the Covid-19 crisis in Mexico – a typology of disease maps

    Open AccessG Montanari, Independent Researcher et al.ARTICLEHUMAN GEOGRAPHIES – Journal of…2022Referencias: 7

    Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the news reports on it have been accompanied by maps. Similarly to weather maps, they became part of our daily news feed. The newspapers' maps reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic often use the same or similar data to depict the current state of the spread within a national territory. However, the designs of the maps vary between different news outlets. These differences were analysed using the document…

  • Ein diskurstheoretisch informierter Blick auf Karten und Kartographie

    Open AccessG Glasze, Christian Bittner et al.CHAPTERHandbuch Diskurs und Raum2021

  • De/colonizing OpenStreetMap? Local mappers, humanitarian and commercial actors and the changing modes of collaborative mapping

    Open AccessSusanne Schröder-Bergen, G Glasze et al.ARTICLEGeoJournal2021Citada por: 6Referencias: 14

    In its early days, the geodata and mapping project OpenStreetMap (OSM) was widely celebrated for opening up and “democratizing” the production of geographic knowledge. However, critical research highlights that the new socio-technical practices of collaborative mapping often also produce or reproduce patterns of exclusion, not least in the area of relative data density between the Global South and North. These findings notwithstanding, we conside…

  • Is This Is Not an Atlas an Atlas? On the Pitfalls of Editing a Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies

    Severin Halder, B Michel et al.ARTICLECartographica The International…2020

    As part of kollektiv orangotango+, we co-edited an international collection of activist, academic, and artistic “counter- mappings.” Because counter-mapping is historically closely connected with, and indebted to, anti-colonial struggles and decolonial politics, we hoped to locate our work within the wider debates about decolonial cartography and the decolonizing of the map. At the same time, preparing, producing, and distributing this publicatio…

  • Jenseits von Kiel

    Open AccessB Michel, Katharina PaulusARTICLEGeographica Helvetica2018

    This editorial provides a theoretical and contextual framework for the themed issue “Raum. Gesetze. Daten.”. The article calls for a broader historiographic analysis of the quantitative-theoretical turn in German-speaking geography. We propose a research agenda that aims at writing a history of science beyond monumental history and classical intellectual history, that focuses on the messiness of history and takes the historicity of systems of tho…

  • Making Mount Kilimanjaro German

    Open AccessB MichelARTICLETransactions of the Institute of…2018Citada por: 2Referencias: 36

    In 1885, as Germany claimed dominion over what was to become German East Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro became the highest German mountain; in 1889, the German geographer Hans Meyer was the first European to reach its summit. The “conquest” of Kilimanjaro was more than just one man's heroic adventure; it was an event that brought together Geography, the building of the German nation and European imperialism. This paper seeks to explore Hans Meyer's pr…

  • Anti-semitism in early 20th century German geography. From a "spaceless" people to the root of the "ills" of urbanization

    Open AccessB MichelARTICLEPolitical Geography2018Citada por: 5Referencias: 12

  • Pre-Thinking GIS – Zur Visuellen Politik der frühen quantitativ-theoretischen Geographie

    Open AccessB MichelARTICLEGeographica Helvetica2017

    This paper examines questions of how issues of visual representation and vision have changed with the the quantitative and theoretical thinking in 1950s and early 1960s Anglophone geography. If the quantitative revolution in geography is understood as a scientific revolution, one should also expect a revolution of the ways in which geography made use of visualizations. At the center of this essay is William Bunge's “Theoretical Geography”, one of…

  • Strukturen Sehen. Über die Karriere eines Hexagons in der quantitativen Revolution

    Open AccessB MichelARTICLEGeographica Helvetica2016

    Publications from the early quantitative revolution in geography saw a significant change in the use of visual material. While the old regionalist paradigm of "Länderkunde" was dominated by images of "geographical individuals" the new geography was dominated by abstract models and visualized laws and theories. Overall visual material gains in importance, both quantitatively and qualitatively. This paper follows the changed functions, possibilitie…

  • Seeing Spatial Structures

    Open AccessB MichelARTICLEGeografiska Annaler Series B…2016Citada por: 3Referencias: 26

    This article examines the role that visual material played in the early years of the quantitative revolution in Anglophone geography. It is part of a larger project that attempts to write a history of geography's scopic regimes in the twentieth century and draws on post‐positivist approaches to the history of science. It is argued that there are a number of strategic as well as theoretical reasons for such a reliance on images in the quantitative…

  • "With almost clean or at most slightly dirty hands". On the self-denazification of German geography after 1945 and its rebranding as a science of peace

    Open AccessB MichelARTICLEPolitical Geography2016Citada por: 7Referencias: 23

  • Learning from failed policy mobilities

    Open AccessChristian Stein, B Michel et al.ARTICLEEuropean Urban and Regional Studies2015Citada por: 23Referencias: 20

    This paper contributes to the debates on policy mobilities by examining Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Germany as examples of contested, failed and unfinished travelling policies. Recent debates on policy mobilities opened a fruitful discussion on how policies are transferred from one place to another and the complex processes that rework places and policies in heterogeneous ways. While we are sympathetic to this literature, there are t…

  • Regionalforschung in der Geographie und interdisziplinäre area studies nach dem cultural turn

    G Glasze, Henning Füller et al.ARTICLEGeographische Zeitschrift2014

    Geography beyond the cultural turn is inclined to understand regions merely as social or discursive constructs. Notwithstanding "regional specialisation" and "intimate regional knowledge", at least traditionally, play an important role in geography. Regional descriptors are still used to frame research questions and regional knowledge is considered to facilitate access to empirical data. Part of a current renaissance of area studies is a debate o…

  • Antisemitismus, Großstadtfeindlichkeit und reaktionäre Kapitalismuskritik in der deutschsprachigen Geographie vor 1945

    Open AccessB MichelARTICLEGeographica Helvetica2014

    In der Forschung zur Geschichte der Geographie besteht eine auffällige Leerstelle bezüglich antisemitischen Denkens vor 1945. In diesem Beitrag wird versucht die Rolle und Funktion antisemitischer Elemente in der deutschsprachigen Geographie des Landschaftsparadigmas vor 1945 nachzuzeichnen. Es wird die These vertreten, dass die antisemitische Figur des Judentums als einem raum- und bodenlosen Volk, nicht nur tief in das geographische Denken eing…

  • Wir sind nie revolutionär gewesen – Zum Mythos des Kieler Geographentags als der Geburtsstunde einer neuen Geographie

    Open AccessB MichelARTICLEGeographica Helvetica2014

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  • Reclaiming the European City and Lobbying for Privilege

    Open AccessB Michel, Christian SteinARTICLEUrban Affairs Review2014Citada por: 19Referencias: 6

    Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are an increasing global phenomenon. In diverse places, they are established and sought of as helpful means to improve urban places. BIDs are frequently seen as a showcase for new forms of globalizing urban policies. This paper contrasts and broadens the frequent examples from the United States and the United Kingdom with experiences from Germany. We argue that this presents not just another example of BIDs a…

  • Stop Being a Tourist!' New Dynamics of Urban Tourism in Berlin-Kreuzberg

    Open AccessHenning Füller, B MichelARTICLEInternational Journal of Urban…2014Citada por: 47Referencias: 28

    Berlin is witnessing a massive tourism boom, and parts of it can be described as 'new urban tourism', which shows a preference for off the beaten track areas and 'authentic' experiences of the city. This form of tourism seems especially salient in Kreuzberg. It is here that an openly articulated critique of tourism attracted national attention in 2011 and has not ceased to do so since. This article aims to better understand the conflictive potent…

  • La chute de l'empire austro-hongrois

    B Michel