P Dirksmeier
Biographic Data
| ID | 15693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Dirksmeier |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Dirksmeier |
| SIGNATURE | DIRKSMEIER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz University Hannover |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9706-004X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A sense of belonging to the neighbourhood in places beyond the metropolis – the role of social infrastructure
This paper analyses the importance of social infrastructure, understood as physical locations and institutions that influence the way people engage with one another, for explaining local belonging beyond the metropolis. Previous studies emphasise the importance of factors such as length of residence, trust, social cohesion, or community organisation for the sense of belonging to one’s neighbourhood, but more or less ignore the aspect of social in…
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres
This paper offers a multidisciplinary overview on the concept and reality of affective and spatial atmospheres. Initially, the paper provides a synopsis on the disciplinary origins of the concept in philosophy, cultural geography and architecture, and then outlines how tourism research has more recently started adopting the atmosphere perspective. Research on spatial atmospheres has primarily been concerned with collective affective phenomena in …
Sailing to save the planet? Media-produced narratives of Greta Thunberg’s trip to the UN Climate Summit in German print newspapers
Narratives and stories are important communication tools and as such essential subjects of social geography. This paper analyses the retelling of Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip across the Atlantic to the Climate Action Summit in New York in 2019 in leading German newspapers and magazines and how her intentions are transformed through this reporting into different narratives. The research mainly focuses on examining the influence of space and place…
The role of climate change awareness for trust in institutions in sub-Saharan Africa
Within the context of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa, trust in institutions is an important prerequisite to implement climate change adaptation and mitigation policies. There is a lack of systematic investigation of the relationship between climate change awareness, conflicts, and trust in institutions. We address this pressing research gap based on a regression analysis with trust in institutions as dependent variables, and climate change …
Do trust and renewable energy use enhance perceived climate change efficacy in Europe
In the European Union, mitigation policies in the energy sector are one of the most important fields of political intervention for reducing emissions to achieve sustainability. Using renewable energy is moreover a central arena for perceived personal and political climate change efficacy, which describes an individual’s perceived ability to positively contribute to the fight against climate change and their belief in the effectiveness of governme…
Geography of placemories
This paper develops the new concept of the geography of placemories as a critical approach for deciphering spatialised memories in cultural geography. In referring to Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism and cultural materialism in line with Raymond Williams, the paper reflects on processual conceptions of feeling, society, memory and place. First, reviewing existing research on memory and place elucidates that cultural geography takes…
Geographies of climate change opinion
Climate change can only be tackled with public support for sustainable policies. Thus, public attitudes towards climate change matter. More than 3 decades of climate change opinion (CCO) research-conducted by geographers, environmental psychologists, behavioural scientists, sociologists etc.-have provided us with a wealth of information about which predictors shape public CCOs. This review synthesises these findings and highlights the different g…
Zusammenhalts-Regionen – zur Theorie der Weltgesellschaft in der Sozialgeographie
The essay combines the concept of social cohesion with Rudolf Stichweh's system-theoretical concept of world society. These two approaches are joint hereafter with questions of spatial differentiation. The aim is to embed empirical micro-studies in macro-theoretical terms and to make them useful for empirical research in social geography. The construct of “cohesive region” demonstrates this by using the example of neighbourhoods
Social media and perceived climate change efficacy
Climate change perceptions interact with how climate change is portrayed in the news, which is now increasingly accessed via social media platforms. While their effects on climate change awareness have been documented, it is less clear to what extent news consumed via social media platforms influences perceived climate change efficacy, which refers to the belief that one is able to make a difference in the fight against climate change. Our paper …
The impact of regionalism on anti-immigrant attitudes
Regionalism, understood as affective attachment of people to place, is shifting into the focus of social scientific attention. An important aspect of this are the globally observable encounters of growing numbers of immigrants with regional identities. Empirical work concerning the impact of regionalism on anti-immigrant attitudes has been contradictory so far. Results range from a moderate to no influence. The paper, thus, analyses the intricate…
Ein blinder Fleck der Diversitätsdebatte? Zur Neuguineaisierung der Stadt
The contemporary metropolis is characterised by an increasing diversity of its population, which is called “super-diversity” or “hyperdiversity” in the urban discourse. This epistemological realignment breaks new ground away from the classic Chicago School. Associated with this “diversification of diversity” (Vertovec, 2007:1025) is a fragmentation of the different social and ethnic groups in the city. However, the concept of super-diversity camo…
Does spatial proximity supplant family ties? Exploring the role of neighborly support for older people in diverse, aging cities
The aging population, coupled with increasing diversification, is currently altering the social fabric of cities worldwide. At the local level, social ties within a neighborhood play a key role in enabling older people to age in familiar surroundings. However, family ties in the neighborhood become less common implying that older people become more dependent on alternative support systems such as friends and neighbors. Drawing from a mixed-method…
Resentments in the cosmopolis
Manufacturing marginality. (Un-)governing the night in Berlin
Die Emergenz der Masse – zur Urbanität im globalen Süden
The potentiality of crowds, in terms of possibilities for achieving a livelihood in the big and dense cities, gains centre stage in contemporary urban studies dealing with the global South. These emergent effects of crowds act as dissociation of further work in urban theory from the global North that often displays a universalistic claim. However, contemporary urban theory both from the global South and North has astonishing less to say about int…
Extensive legal exceptionalism, an administrative export-processing zone and urbanization in Mauritius
An analysis of the repercussions of the administrative Mauritian export-processing zone (EPZ), encompassing the territory of the whole main island of the Republic of Mauritius, for the trajectory of urbanization finds that unlike specific economic zones such as Shenzhen special economic zone, China, the Mauritian EPZ only had an historical impact on the urbanization of the main island. The correlates of current urbanization are unemployment, prop…
Providing places for structures of feeling and hierarchical complementarity in urban theory
This paper reflects upon intellectual possibilities of Raymond Williams’ classic study The Country and the City (1975) within current urban and regional research. First, the paper canvasses the relevance of the book by constructing a frame of reference based on its citations in urban and regional studies. The principal findings of this approach discern frequent use of the main points developed by Williams in recent discourse. Thereafter the paper…
Kritik der symbolischen Formen I - Symbolische Form und Funktion
Everyday urban encounters as stratification practices
Geographies of urban encounter explore how people live with difference in contemporary, super-diverse cities. For a deeper understanding of the role of encounters for living with cultural and social differences, we conceptualise encounters as manifestations of Foucauldian micro-mechanisms of power conducted by affects. Affects, understood as complex, reflexive states of being, are direct responses to social or environmental stimuli. Our main poin…
The intricate geographies of gender ideologies in Germany
Resident Perceptions of New Urban Tourism
Research on urban tourism has focused on the search for alternative, authentic, lively, and mundane urban neighbourhoods by visitors. This so-called new urban tourism is characterised by the increasing quest by tourists for contact with mundane life in ordinary residential quarters. The intrusion of new urban tourism into day-to-day life also affects residents' perceptions of visitors, which are prone to become stereotypes and prejudices rather t…
Ist Kreativität ein subjektives oder ein kollektives Phänomen? Über eine ungeklärte Frage in der Non-representational Theory und eine denkbare Antwort der Philosophie der symbolischen Formen
The micro-macro-problem of the social sciences is also present in human geographies' discussions of creativity. Creativity could be conceptualized either as a capability of subjects or as emerging from interaction processes. A direct consequence of this theoretical indecision is an inconsistent notion of creativity in Nigel Thrifts' nonrepresentational theory (NRT) that is originally developed to valuate creative praxis. The paper advances a prop…
Situational places
Cities in general and public urban spaces in particular have re‐emerged as important places where strangers from different social and cultural backgrounds interact. The growing number of intercultural encounters assumed by contemporary urban studies calls for a theoretical examination of how these encounters are conducted. In this article we therefore critically examine the interplay between cultures, strangers, performances, encounters, and urba…
Are Urbanites More Permissive? Germany’s Urban Geography of Prejudice
Traditionally, bowing to the migration history of Germany, larger proportions of foreigners live in major German cities than in other parts of the country. According to contact theory, famously developed by social psychologist Gordon Allport in the 1950s, intergroup contacts between different ethnic groups reduce prejudice. The main aim of the article is to examine whether the level of prejudice toward foreigners is lower among the German urban p…
Stadt und Performanz
Die Stadt ist ein Untersuchungsgegenstand, der an Komplexität kaum zu überbieten ist (Wirth 1938). So verändert sich die Perspektive auf die Reichhaltigkeit des Objekts je nachdem, welche theoretische Grundhaltung man zu ihm einnimmt. Es rücken unterschiedliche Dimensionen, Fragestellungen und Phänomene von Stadtleben, städtischen Räumen, Urbanität oder Urbanisierung in den Mittelpunkt, je nachdem ob wir aus einer handlungstheoretischen, polit-ök…
Are Urbanites More Permissive? Germany’s Urban Geography of Prejudice
Traditionally, bowing to the migration history of Germany, larger proportions of foreigners live in major German cities than in other parts of the country. According to contact theory, famously developed by social psychologist Gordon Allport in the 1950s, intergroup contacts between different ethnic groups reduce prejudice. The main aim of the article is to examine whether the level of prejudice toward foreigners is lower among the German urban p…
Everyday urban encounters as stratification practices
Geographies of urban encounter explore how people live with difference in contemporary, super-diverse cities. For a deeper understanding of the role of encounters for living with cultural and social differences, we conceptualise encounters as manifestations of Foucauldian micro-mechanisms of power conducted by affects. Affects, understood as complex, reflexive states of being, are direct responses to social or environmental stimuli. Our main poin…
The wish to live in areas with ‘people like us
In contemporary urban research, classical notions of differences in mentality between the urban and rural population as known since the writings of Cicero have once again become en vogue. The concept of ‘metropolitan habitus’, elaborated by British Sociologist Tim Butler, is the most influential revival of mental differentiation in this context. With the help of the concept of metropolitan habitus, Butler is able to differentiate between distinct…
The intricate geographies of gender ideologies in Germany
Does spatial proximity supplant family ties? Exploring the role of neighborly support for older people in diverse, aging cities
The aging population, coupled with increasing diversification, is currently altering the social fabric of cities worldwide. At the local level, social ties within a neighborhood play a key role in enabling older people to age in familiar surroundings. However, family ties in the neighborhood become less common implying that older people become more dependent on alternative support systems such as friends and neighbors. Drawing from a mixed-method…
Situational places
Cities in general and public urban spaces in particular have re‐emerged as important places where strangers from different social and cultural backgrounds interact. The growing number of intercultural encounters assumed by contemporary urban studies calls for a theoretical examination of how these encounters are conducted. In this article we therefore critically examine the interplay between cultures, strangers, performances, encounters, and urba…
Die Beobachtung der Situation
The paper analyses the role of affections and affect in two encounters between strangers in Berlin. Affections are construed as states of being of the affected body, whereas affect is the transition between different states of being. Drawing on recent work on affects in social geography the paper conceptualises affect as a theoretical tool for the empirical analysis of bodies in encounters. Affect be understood as the main force behind the collec…
Resident Perceptions of New Urban Tourism
Research on urban tourism has focused on the search for alternative, authentic, lively, and mundane urban neighbourhoods by visitors. This so-called new urban tourism is characterised by the increasing quest by tourists for contact with mundane life in ordinary residential quarters. The intrusion of new urban tourism into day-to-day life also affects residents' perceptions of visitors, which are prone to become stereotypes and prejudices rather t…
Quo vadis research on spatial atmospheres
This paper offers a multidisciplinary overview on the concept and reality of affective and spatial atmospheres. Initially, the paper provides a synopsis on the disciplinary origins of the concept in philosophy, cultural geography and architecture, and then outlines how tourism research has more recently started adopting the atmosphere perspective. Research on spatial atmospheres has primarily been concerned with collective affective phenomena in …
Geography of placemories
This paper develops the new concept of the geography of placemories as a critical approach for deciphering spatialised memories in cultural geography. In referring to Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism and cultural materialism in line with Raymond Williams, the paper reflects on processual conceptions of feeling, society, memory and place. First, reviewing existing research on memory and place elucidates that cultural geography takes…
Social media and perceived climate change efficacy
Climate change perceptions interact with how climate change is portrayed in the news, which is now increasingly accessed via social media platforms. While their effects on climate change awareness have been documented, it is less clear to what extent news consumed via social media platforms influences perceived climate change efficacy, which refers to the belief that one is able to make a difference in the fight against climate change. Our paper …
Resentments in the cosmopolis
Providing places for structures of feeling and hierarchical complementarity in urban theory
This paper reflects upon intellectual possibilities of Raymond Williams’ classic study The Country and the City (1975) within current urban and regional research. First, the paper canvasses the relevance of the book by constructing a frame of reference based on its citations in urban and regional studies. The principal findings of this approach discern frequent use of the main points developed by Williams in recent discourse. Thereafter the paper…
Geographies of climate change opinion
Climate change can only be tackled with public support for sustainable policies. Thus, public attitudes towards climate change matter. More than 3 decades of climate change opinion (CCO) research-conducted by geographers, environmental psychologists, behavioural scientists, sociologists etc.-have provided us with a wealth of information about which predictors shape public CCOs. This review synthesises these findings and highlights the different g…
Habituelle Urbanitaet
Strife in the rural idyll? The relationship between autochthons and in-migrants in scenic regions of South Bavaria
The notion of the rural idyll as a conception of a healthy life in a natural environment goes back to the eclogues of Theocritus and Virgil. Since the 1970s this idea has gained greater attention in the anglophone human-geographical literature. Representations of the idyll are regarded as a crucial motive for the influx of urban middle classes into exurban, scenic rural regions. This in-migration gives rise to conflicts between the autochthonous …
Der Fremde als Katalysator für Inventionen
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The wish to live in areas with ‘people like us
In contemporary urban research, classical notions of differences in mentality between the urban and rural population as known since the writings of Cicero have once again become en vogue. The concept of ‘metropolitan habitus’, elaborated by British Sociologist Tim Butler, is the most influential revival of mental differentiation in this context. With the help of the concept of metropolitan habitus, Butler is able to differentiate between distinct…
Stadt und Performanz
Die Stadt ist ein Untersuchungsgegenstand, der an Komplexität kaum zu überbieten ist (Wirth 1938). So verändert sich die Perspektive auf die Reichhaltigkeit des Objekts je nachdem, welche theoretische Grundhaltung man zu ihm einnimmt. Es rücken unterschiedliche Dimensionen, Fragestellungen und Phänomene von Stadtleben, städtischen Räumen, Urbanität oder Urbanisierung in den Mittelpunkt, je nachdem ob wir aus einer handlungstheoretischen, polit-ök…
Die Beobachtung der Situation
The paper analyses the role of affections and affect in two encounters between strangers in Berlin. Affections are construed as states of being of the affected body, whereas affect is the transition between different states of being. Drawing on recent work on affects in social geography the paper conceptualises affect as a theoretical tool for the empirical analysis of bodies in encounters. Affect be understood as the main force behind the collec…
Ist Kreativität ein subjektives oder ein kollektives Phänomen? Über eine ungeklärte Frage in der Non-representational Theory und eine denkbare Antwort der Philosophie der symbolischen Formen
The micro-macro-problem of the social sciences is also present in human geographies' discussions of creativity. Creativity could be conceptualized either as a capability of subjects or as emerging from interaction processes. A direct consequence of this theoretical indecision is an inconsistent notion of creativity in Nigel Thrifts' nonrepresentational theory (NRT) that is originally developed to valuate creative praxis. The paper advances a prop…
Situational places
Cities in general and public urban spaces in particular have re‐emerged as important places where strangers from different social and cultural backgrounds interact. The growing number of intercultural encounters assumed by contemporary urban studies calls for a theoretical examination of how these encounters are conducted. In this article we therefore critically examine the interplay between cultures, strangers, performances, encounters, and urba…
Are Urbanites More Permissive? Germany’s Urban Geography of Prejudice
Traditionally, bowing to the migration history of Germany, larger proportions of foreigners live in major German cities than in other parts of the country. According to contact theory, famously developed by social psychologist Gordon Allport in the 1950s, intergroup contacts between different ethnic groups reduce prejudice. The main aim of the article is to examine whether the level of prejudice toward foreigners is lower among the German urban p…
Everyday urban encounters as stratification practices
Geographies of urban encounter explore how people live with difference in contemporary, super-diverse cities. For a deeper understanding of the role of encounters for living with cultural and social differences, we conceptualise encounters as manifestations of Foucauldian micro-mechanisms of power conducted by affects. Affects, understood as complex, reflexive states of being, are direct responses to social or environmental stimuli. Our main poin…
The intricate geographies of gender ideologies in Germany
Resident Perceptions of New Urban Tourism
Research on urban tourism has focused on the search for alternative, authentic, lively, and mundane urban neighbourhoods by visitors. This so-called new urban tourism is characterised by the increasing quest by tourists for contact with mundane life in ordinary residential quarters. The intrusion of new urban tourism into day-to-day life also affects residents' perceptions of visitors, which are prone to become stereotypes and prejudices rather t…
Providing places for structures of feeling and hierarchical complementarity in urban theory
This paper reflects upon intellectual possibilities of Raymond Williams’ classic study The Country and the City (1975) within current urban and regional research. First, the paper canvasses the relevance of the book by constructing a frame of reference based on its citations in urban and regional studies. The principal findings of this approach discern frequent use of the main points developed by Williams in recent discourse. Thereafter the paper…
Kritik der symbolischen Formen I - Symbolische Form und Funktion
Extensive legal exceptionalism, an administrative export-processing zone and urbanization in Mauritius
An analysis of the repercussions of the administrative Mauritian export-processing zone (EPZ), encompassing the territory of the whole main island of the Republic of Mauritius, for the trajectory of urbanization finds that unlike specific economic zones such as Shenzhen special economic zone, China, the Mauritian EPZ only had an historical impact on the urbanization of the main island. The correlates of current urbanization are unemployment, prop…
Manufacturing marginality. (Un-)governing the night in Berlin
Die Emergenz der Masse – zur Urbanität im globalen Süden
The potentiality of crowds, in terms of possibilities for achieving a livelihood in the big and dense cities, gains centre stage in contemporary urban studies dealing with the global South. These emergent effects of crowds act as dissociation of further work in urban theory from the global North that often displays a universalistic claim. However, contemporary urban theory both from the global South and North has astonishing less to say about int…
Ein blinder Fleck der Diversitätsdebatte? Zur Neuguineaisierung der Stadt
The contemporary metropolis is characterised by an increasing diversity of its population, which is called “super-diversity” or “hyperdiversity” in the urban discourse. This epistemological realignment breaks new ground away from the classic Chicago School. Associated with this “diversification of diversity” (Vertovec, 2007:1025) is a fragmentation of the different social and ethnic groups in the city. However, the concept of super-diversity camo…
Does spatial proximity supplant family ties? Exploring the role of neighborly support for older people in diverse, aging cities
The aging population, coupled with increasing diversification, is currently altering the social fabric of cities worldwide. At the local level, social ties within a neighborhood play a key role in enabling older people to age in familiar surroundings. However, family ties in the neighborhood become less common implying that older people become more dependent on alternative support systems such as friends and neighbors. Drawing from a mixed-method…
Resentments in the cosmopolis
Zusammenhalts-Regionen – zur Theorie der Weltgesellschaft in der Sozialgeographie
The essay combines the concept of social cohesion with Rudolf Stichweh's system-theoretical concept of world society. These two approaches are joint hereafter with questions of spatial differentiation. The aim is to embed empirical micro-studies in macro-theoretical terms and to make them useful for empirical research in social geography. The construct of “cohesive region” demonstrates this by using the example of neighbourhoods
Social media and perceived climate change efficacy
Climate change perceptions interact with how climate change is portrayed in the news, which is now increasingly accessed via social media platforms. While their effects on climate change awareness have been documented, it is less clear to what extent news consumed via social media platforms influences perceived climate change efficacy, which refers to the belief that one is able to make a difference in the fight against climate change. Our paper …
The impact of regionalism on anti-immigrant attitudes
Regionalism, understood as affective attachment of people to place, is shifting into the focus of social scientific attention. An important aspect of this are the globally observable encounters of growing numbers of immigrants with regional identities. Empirical work concerning the impact of regionalism on anti-immigrant attitudes has been contradictory so far. Results range from a moderate to no influence. The paper, thus, analyses the intricate…
Geographies of climate change opinion
Climate change can only be tackled with public support for sustainable policies. Thus, public attitudes towards climate change matter. More than 3 decades of climate change opinion (CCO) research-conducted by geographers, environmental psychologists, behavioural scientists, sociologists etc.-have provided us with a wealth of information about which predictors shape public CCOs. This review synthesises these findings and highlights the different g…
Sailing to save the planet? Media-produced narratives of Greta Thunberg’s trip to the UN Climate Summit in German print newspapers
Narratives and stories are important communication tools and as such essential subjects of social geography. This paper analyses the retelling of Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip across the Atlantic to the Climate Action Summit in New York in 2019 in leading German newspapers and magazines and how her intentions are transformed through this reporting into different narratives. The research mainly focuses on examining the influence of space and place…
Sociology (22 works) · Geography (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)