Gerhard Rainer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1154791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerhard Rainer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Rainer |
| SIGNATURE | RAINER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8103-8371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Nature in the glass’
Wine is often portrayed and perceived as a natural product; however, in fact, it's predominantly a highly industrialized, processed commodity. The vast majority of vine is cultivated in monocultural systems, requiring the intensive use of pesticides and agricultural machinery. Advanced cellar technologies and oenological practices standardize vinification, controlling and manipulating microbial and biochemical processes to ensure a uniform produc…
(Pragmatist) geographies of rankings
As a rapidly growing interdisciplinary literature has argued, rankings have become a key means of valuation in contemporary society. However, the majority of the work focuses on rankings in only a few areas, and even if spatial aspects play a role in the interdisciplinary literature, the number of explicitly geographical works on rankings is surprisingly low. Against this backdrop, in this paper I aim firstly to flesh out a pragmatism‐inspired ge…
The more-than-living city
In this article, we develop the concept of urban metabolism of Non/Life. More precisely, by linking Povinelli’s notion of geontopower to Urban Political Ecology (UPE), we aim to broaden the scope of UPE and ask how processes of urbanization are connected to the governance of transitions between Life and Nonlife. While previous work from UPE has focused on the relationship between society and nature, interpreting the emergence of urban sewage infr…
Tourism, financialization, and real estate
From the perspective of an Alpine town with high tourism intensity, this paper adds to the literature on the political economy of short-term rentals (STRs). While holiday apartments are a relatively new phenomenon in cities, connected to the emergence of the platform economy, in many Alpine destinations, they have constituted an important segment of tourist accommodation for many decades. This is the situation in our case study town, Garmisch-Par…
Affective spaces of the rural
While many rural regions in Germany are facing a downward socio-structural spiral, there is a growing societal yearning for rurality and the practices associated with it. By creating a network for individuals who migrate from urban centers to a peripheral rural area, the self-proclaimed “spatial pioneer” movement of Upper Lusatia operates at the convergence of these realities. Through an ethnographic inquiry into this movement, we study the socia…
German colonial geography as a racial-Völkish reordering project beyond the East
There is very little research on German colonial geography in general, and the boom in this subdiscipline during the National Socialist period has not received any scholarly attention so far. Against that backdrop, this paper aims to contribute: a) to a finer-grained picture of colonial, racial-Völkish thinking – and its application – in German geography during the National Socialist period and b) to our understanding of the continuities and rupt…
La Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, la Argentina peronista y el nacionalsocialismo. Una mirada desde y más allá de la geografía
Though immigration to Argentina of people with connections to the national socialist government has received a lot of scientific and media attention in the last years, the National University of Tucumán’s boom and the role scientists with national socialist connections played in this has hardly been studied. From the perspective of geography, and also from beyond said disciplinary viewpoint, this research note analyzes the nexus between the rise …
Market Making and the Contested Performation of Value in the Global (Bulk) Wine Industry
Recent economic geography scholarship has emphasized (1) the performative work of market making (i.e., the geographies of marketization perspective) and (2) value-creation practices in markets (particularly the geographies of association and dissociation perspectives). In this article, we propose making stronger connections between these bodies of literature to gain a better understanding of how the performative constitution of markets and of bra…
Beyond Haushoferism
For decades, German geographers’ entanglement with Nazi rule has been described as primarily related to geopolitics and, more specifically, to the figure of Karl Haushofer – the ‘black sheep’ of an otherwise ‘scientific’ discipline. While research has been dismantling this ‘Haushoferism’ since the 1980s, the academic geography environment in which Haushofer was embedded in Munich has not been studied thus far. The present article seeks to fill th…
Mehr-als-menschliche Geographien. Schlüsselkonzepte, Beziehungen und Methodiken
More-than-human geographies haben sich im angelsächsischen Raum als wichtiges Forschungsfeld etabliert und in den letzten Jahren auch in der deutschsprachigen Geographie zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Dezentrierung des Menschen wird durch verschiedene Ansätze wie die Phänomenologie, den Pragmatismus, die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie, Assemblage-, Affekt- und Mehr-als-repräsentationale Theorien sowie durch praxistheoretische, performative und vis…
Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony
The relationship between “national” geographical schools and an increasingly globalized geographical theory-building under the logics of Anglophone hegemony has generated critical debate within geography. This paper aims to contribute to current discussions on the development of differential, language-based “schools of thought” in geography and how these are mobilized and de- and recontextualized when they travel beyond their origins. However, it…
The emergence of new wine design practices
In this paper, we argue that the rapid expansion of exports as a share of global wine production is strongly related to the invention of flexitanks for wine transportation and the concurrent exponential growth of the bulk wine industry. Bulk wine fundamentally changes wine production, from the organisation of grape growing to the commercialisation of the final product, as it enables companies to assemble wine across the globe by establishing new …
Geographies of qualification in the global fine wine market
Although questions of "quality" have gained prominence in economic geography, research has not fully explored recent discussions on processes of qualification in economic sociology. This paper has two key aims. The first is to introduce the way qualification processes have been conceptualized in recent pragmatism-inspired, process-oriented social science contributions, drawing particularly on work relating to actor-network theory, as well as on s…
Amenity/lifestyle migration to the Global South
While most research into amenity/lifestyle migration still focuses on rural places in the Global North, it has recently been acknowledged that international North–South migration is a growing phenomenon. Against the backdrop of strong media attention to Global North immigration, there is a need to focus more on the rapidly increasing – but much less visible – migration streams of lifestyle/amenity movers to the Global South, and particularly on t…
Producing nature for tourism
High-resolution forest mapping for behavioural studies in the Nature Reserve ‘Les Nouragues’, French Guiana
For animals with spatially complex behaviours at relatively small scales, the resolution of a global positioning system (GPS) receiver location is often below the resolution needed to correctly map animals’ spatial behaviour. Natural conditions such as canopy cover, canyons or clouds can further degrade GPS receiver reception. Here we present a detailed, high-resolution map of a 4.6 ha Neotropical river island and a 8.3 ha mainland plot with the …
The making of the ‘world’s highest wine region’
Constructing globalized spaces of tourism and leisure
Migración por amenidad y turismo
El turismo y la migracin son frecuentemente vistos -de manera aislada o en conjunto -como grandes transformadores sociales, territoriales y econmicos del espacio rural. En buena parte de las investigaciones, ambos fenmenos se plantean como influencias negativas y corruptoras de "lo local", percibido como algo autntico y puro que debe resguardarse a toda costa. Este artculo examina estas nociones a partir del estudio de caso de Taf del Valle, pobl…
Mefaspace
Constructing globalized spaces of tourism and leisure
Geographies of qualification in the global fine wine market
Although questions of "quality" have gained prominence in economic geography, research has not fully explored recent discussions on processes of qualification in economic sociology. This paper has two key aims. The first is to introduce the way qualification processes have been conceptualized in recent pragmatism-inspired, process-oriented social science contributions, drawing particularly on work relating to actor-network theory, as well as on s…
Amenity/lifestyle migration to the Global South
While most research into amenity/lifestyle migration still focuses on rural places in the Global North, it has recently been acknowledged that international North–South migration is a growing phenomenon. Against the backdrop of strong media attention to Global North immigration, there is a need to focus more on the rapidly increasing – but much less visible – migration streams of lifestyle/amenity movers to the Global South, and particularly on t…
Producing nature for tourism
Tourism, financialization, and real estate
From the perspective of an Alpine town with high tourism intensity, this paper adds to the literature on the political economy of short-term rentals (STRs). While holiday apartments are a relatively new phenomenon in cities, connected to the emergence of the platform economy, in many Alpine destinations, they have constituted an important segment of tourist accommodation for many decades. This is the situation in our case study town, Garmisch-Par…
Market Making and the Contested Performation of Value in the Global (Bulk) Wine Industry
Recent economic geography scholarship has emphasized (1) the performative work of market making (i.e., the geographies of marketization perspective) and (2) value-creation practices in markets (particularly the geographies of association and dissociation perspectives). In this article, we propose making stronger connections between these bodies of literature to gain a better understanding of how the performative constitution of markets and of bra…
The emergence of new wine design practices
In this paper, we argue that the rapid expansion of exports as a share of global wine production is strongly related to the invention of flexitanks for wine transportation and the concurrent exponential growth of the bulk wine industry. Bulk wine fundamentally changes wine production, from the organisation of grape growing to the commercialisation of the final product, as it enables companies to assemble wine across the globe by establishing new …
The more-than-living city
In this article, we develop the concept of urban metabolism of Non/Life. More precisely, by linking Povinelli’s notion of geontopower to Urban Political Ecology (UPE), we aim to broaden the scope of UPE and ask how processes of urbanization are connected to the governance of transitions between Life and Nonlife. While previous work from UPE has focused on the relationship between society and nature, interpreting the emergence of urban sewage infr…
Beyond Haushoferism
For decades, German geographers’ entanglement with Nazi rule has been described as primarily related to geopolitics and, more specifically, to the figure of Karl Haushofer – the ‘black sheep’ of an otherwise ‘scientific’ discipline. While research has been dismantling this ‘Haushoferism’ since the 1980s, the academic geography environment in which Haushofer was embedded in Munich has not been studied thus far. The present article seeks to fill th…
Mefaspace
Migración por amenidad y turismo
El turismo y la migracin son frecuentemente vistos -de manera aislada o en conjunto -como grandes transformadores sociales, territoriales y econmicos del espacio rural. En buena parte de las investigaciones, ambos fenmenos se plantean como influencias negativas y corruptoras de "lo local", percibido como algo autntico y puro que debe resguardarse a toda costa. Este artculo examina estas nociones a partir del estudio de caso de Taf del Valle, pobl…
Constructing globalized spaces of tourism and leisure
High-resolution forest mapping for behavioural studies in the Nature Reserve ‘Les Nouragues’, French Guiana
For animals with spatially complex behaviours at relatively small scales, the resolution of a global positioning system (GPS) receiver location is often below the resolution needed to correctly map animals’ spatial behaviour. Natural conditions such as canopy cover, canyons or clouds can further degrade GPS receiver reception. Here we present a detailed, high-resolution map of a 4.6 ha Neotropical river island and a 8.3 ha mainland plot with the …
The making of the ‘world’s highest wine region’
Producing nature for tourism
Amenity/lifestyle migration to the Global South
While most research into amenity/lifestyle migration still focuses on rural places in the Global North, it has recently been acknowledged that international North–South migration is a growing phenomenon. Against the backdrop of strong media attention to Global North immigration, there is a need to focus more on the rapidly increasing – but much less visible – migration streams of lifestyle/amenity movers to the Global South, and particularly on t…
The emergence of new wine design practices
In this paper, we argue that the rapid expansion of exports as a share of global wine production is strongly related to the invention of flexitanks for wine transportation and the concurrent exponential growth of the bulk wine industry. Bulk wine fundamentally changes wine production, from the organisation of grape growing to the commercialisation of the final product, as it enables companies to assemble wine across the globe by establishing new …
Geographies of qualification in the global fine wine market
Although questions of "quality" have gained prominence in economic geography, research has not fully explored recent discussions on processes of qualification in economic sociology. This paper has two key aims. The first is to introduce the way qualification processes have been conceptualized in recent pragmatism-inspired, process-oriented social science contributions, drawing particularly on work relating to actor-network theory, as well as on s…
Mehr-als-menschliche Geographien. Schlüsselkonzepte, Beziehungen und Methodiken
More-than-human geographies haben sich im angelsächsischen Raum als wichtiges Forschungsfeld etabliert und in den letzten Jahren auch in der deutschsprachigen Geographie zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Dezentrierung des Menschen wird durch verschiedene Ansätze wie die Phänomenologie, den Pragmatismus, die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie, Assemblage-, Affekt- und Mehr-als-repräsentationale Theorien sowie durch praxistheoretische, performative und vis…
Globalizing geography before Anglophone hegemony
The relationship between “national” geographical schools and an increasingly globalized geographical theory-building under the logics of Anglophone hegemony has generated critical debate within geography. This paper aims to contribute to current discussions on the development of differential, language-based “schools of thought” in geography and how these are mobilized and de- and recontextualized when they travel beyond their origins. However, it…
La Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, la Argentina peronista y el nacionalsocialismo. Una mirada desde y más allá de la geografía
Though immigration to Argentina of people with connections to the national socialist government has received a lot of scientific and media attention in the last years, the National University of Tucumán’s boom and the role scientists with national socialist connections played in this has hardly been studied. From the perspective of geography, and also from beyond said disciplinary viewpoint, this research note analyzes the nexus between the rise …
Market Making and the Contested Performation of Value in the Global (Bulk) Wine Industry
Recent economic geography scholarship has emphasized (1) the performative work of market making (i.e., the geographies of marketization perspective) and (2) value-creation practices in markets (particularly the geographies of association and dissociation perspectives). In this article, we propose making stronger connections between these bodies of literature to gain a better understanding of how the performative constitution of markets and of bra…
Beyond Haushoferism
For decades, German geographers’ entanglement with Nazi rule has been described as primarily related to geopolitics and, more specifically, to the figure of Karl Haushofer – the ‘black sheep’ of an otherwise ‘scientific’ discipline. While research has been dismantling this ‘Haushoferism’ since the 1980s, the academic geography environment in which Haushofer was embedded in Munich has not been studied thus far. The present article seeks to fill th…
Affective spaces of the rural
While many rural regions in Germany are facing a downward socio-structural spiral, there is a growing societal yearning for rurality and the practices associated with it. By creating a network for individuals who migrate from urban centers to a peripheral rural area, the self-proclaimed “spatial pioneer” movement of Upper Lusatia operates at the convergence of these realities. Through an ethnographic inquiry into this movement, we study the socia…
German colonial geography as a racial-Völkish reordering project beyond the East
There is very little research on German colonial geography in general, and the boom in this subdiscipline during the National Socialist period has not received any scholarly attention so far. Against that backdrop, this paper aims to contribute: a) to a finer-grained picture of colonial, racial-Völkish thinking – and its application – in German geography during the National Socialist period and b) to our understanding of the continuities and rupt…
‘Nature in the glass’
Wine is often portrayed and perceived as a natural product; however, in fact, it's predominantly a highly industrialized, processed commodity. The vast majority of vine is cultivated in monocultural systems, requiring the intensive use of pesticides and agricultural machinery. Advanced cellar technologies and oenological practices standardize vinification, controlling and manipulating microbial and biochemical processes to ensure a uniform produc…
(Pragmatist) geographies of rankings
As a rapidly growing interdisciplinary literature has argued, rankings have become a key means of valuation in contemporary society. However, the majority of the work focuses on rankings in only a few areas, and even if spatial aspects play a role in the interdisciplinary literature, the number of explicitly geographical works on rankings is surprisingly low. Against this backdrop, in this paper I aim firstly to flesh out a pragmatism‐inspired ge…
The more-than-living city
In this article, we develop the concept of urban metabolism of Non/Life. More precisely, by linking Povinelli’s notion of geontopower to Urban Political Ecology (UPE), we aim to broaden the scope of UPE and ask how processes of urbanization are connected to the governance of transitions between Life and Nonlife. While previous work from UPE has focused on the relationship between society and nature, interpreting the emergence of urban sewage infr…
Tourism, financialization, and real estate
From the perspective of an Alpine town with high tourism intensity, this paper adds to the literature on the political economy of short-term rentals (STRs). While holiday apartments are a relatively new phenomenon in cities, connected to the emergence of the platform economy, in many Alpine destinations, they have constituted an important segment of tourist accommodation for many decades. This is the situation in our case study town, Garmisch-Par…
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