Matthias Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthias Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthias |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Augsburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3240-3026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Belastungen und Wohlbefinden pädagogischer Fachkräfte in Kindertageseinrichtungen
Die Begründbarkeit der Wahrheit: Zur Notwendigkeit der ontologischen Begründung jedweder Erkenntnistheorie und der prinzipiellen Unzulänglichkeit ihrer Abbildbarkeit im begrifflichen Denken
Water populism and the Iranians' collective adipsia
This article examines Iran as an example, where the water crisis is dealt with through denial, projection, and securitization approaches, described as “water populism.” The Iranian polity systematically adopts denial and projection approaches to obscure an underlying causal chain whose first ring is ideology, and then, it resorts to the securitization of water to safeguard these approaches against public criticism. Ideology prescribes an intensiv…
Is the New Path a Modified Old Path: Smallholder Farmers’ Perspectives on Cotton Farming in Khatlon, Tajikistan
This article reviews the Soviet legacy in relation to contemporary cotton production in south-western Tajikistan and asks why farmers are still locked in to Soviet cotton production policies and practices despite post-Soviet regulatory, societal and environmental changes. With hindsight on Soviet agricultural production policies in Central Asia, this contribution scrutinises the perception of smallholder dehkhan farmers towards continued cotton p…
Beyond the Coffee Cup: The Functions of Cafés in Bishkek
Over just a few years, numerous Western-style cafés have opened in Kyrgyzstan’s capital and gained popularity. In contrast to existing food-service venues, these new cafés provide superior service, creating incentives to linger. Based on Oldenburg’s theory of the ‘third place’, this article analyses the functions of these cafés and discusses their significance for Bishkek society. Three main functions are identified: first, providing an alternati…
Environmental Humanities: Beiträge zur geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Umweltforschung
The environmental humanities comprise a large, growing, and diverse body of inquiry spanning a multitude of academic disciplines. Along with the social sciences, these humanities disciplines have long been devoted to the study of human affairs, leaving the natural sciences to study things such as ecology, ice sheets, and climate. Broadly, where humanities disciplines differ from social science ones is as follows: unlike, say, economics, which tre…
Bildung und Arbeit als Integrationsfeld für Geflüchtete
This publication presents the results of a study on the integration of refugees into education, training and work in Berlin. The research is based on qualitative interviews with refugees and representa-tives of schools, companies, civil society projects and administrative bodies. The study analyses factors that both support and hinder refugees’ integration into training and work, and discusses related measures of integration management.
Ungerechte Energielandschaften – die Produktion von Raum im Kontext der Transformation des deutschen Energiesystems
The study analyses the characteristic features of energy landscapes. By the example of the German energy transition, it is discussed in how far they are an expression of social inequality and injustice. Based on a review of the literature on socio-technical and socio-ecological dimensions of energy landscapes, the central findings will be integrated into Henri Lefebvre's concept “The Production of Space”. Thereby, those social spaces are identifi…
On the path to sustainable energy landscapes? The social shaping of energy landscapes in the face of climate protection measures
Potential spatio-temporal patterns of renewable energies that take into account international climate protection strategies have been neither analysed nor visualised exactly in terms of their landscape complexity. Furthermore, it is unclear what land uses would be prevalent in new energy landscapes, due to a lack of restrictions, and which social conflicts would be associated with these land use changes. There is no knowledge at all about the ext…
Wonderland of technology? How energy landscapes reveal inequalities and injustices of the German Energiewende
Environmental degradation at Lake Urmia (Iran): Exploring the causes and their impacts on rural livelihoods
During the last 20 years, Lake Urmia, once recognised as one of the largest hypersaline lakes on the planet, has suffered from severe environmental degradation. As a result of climate change and human activities, the lake has been largely desiccated. Previous work around the unfolding environmental disaster mainly focused on Lake Urmia’s water regime, water level fluctuations, crisis causes and possible actions to revive its fortunes. However, th…
Environmental humanities: An Emerging Field of Transdisciplinary Research
Humanity is facing a global crisis that has been brought about by the domestication, exploitation and degradation of the natural environment. This crisis is closely interconnected with social structures and processes, and with cultural representations ‐ thus with history and politics, too. Therefore, historically, politically, aesthetically, and ethically reflective approaches that require the expertise of the humanities and social sciences are e…
International tourism and urban transformation in Old Havana
Cuba is currently experiencing an unprecedented boom in international tourism, and the Cuban state has actively supported tourism expansion as a strategic means to increase greatly needed foreign currency income, in order to sustain its socialist system.In Havana, Cuba's gateway city for international tourists and -with its colonial old town bestowed with UNESCO world heritage status -one of its touristic hotspots, this tourism boom is felt most …
Is the post-fossil era necessarily post-capitalistic? – The robustness and capabilities of green capitalism
A cup of coffee in Bishkek: Insights into the emerging coffee culture in Kyrgyzstan's capital
This study deals with the contemporary dynamics of urban life in Bishkek. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Central Asian societies have experienced widespread political, economic and socio-cultural transformations. In this context, Western or globalized cultural modes and trends influence Kyrgyzstan's social and cultural life. One of these trends is the increasingly popular coffee culture, with its attendant high-grade coffee brands and…
Dynamic Processes and Developments in the Central Karakoram
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Repercussions of institutional governance changes on communication practices in the Afar National Regional State, Ethiopia
Formal and informal institutions guide and shape communities and communication practices worldwide. Colonization, modernization and political transformation processes changed and questioned the role and relevance of informal institutions and strengthened the position of formal institutions. This paper looks at institutional governance transitions and the increasing presence of formal as opposed to informal clan based practices in the pastoralist …
Commodity individuation of milk in the Somali Region, Ethiopia
Livestock is traditionally the central commodity for the Somali pastoralists of Ethiopia, a commodity that fulfils numerous purposes required to sustain livelihoods. Livestock commodification, however, is not limited to animal sales. Milk is a fundamental element of Somali life, used as a primary source of food for young animals and for human consumption. In the Somali Region, herders now sell milk, an act that was traditionally taboo, to supplem…
Simultaneity as a challenge for development
Human Geography of Post-Socialist Mountain Regions: An Introduction
The political situation during the so-called Cold War divided alpine and mountain research in at least two sections. From a Western perspective, knowledge about the mountains located behind the iron curtain was very limited due to restricted access and the fact that studies conducted by colleagues from socialist countries were rarely available, written in a non-Western language or just ignored. With the 1989/91 transformation, the numerous mounta…
Géographie humaine des régions montagneuses post-socialistes: Une introduction
La situation politique durant la « Guerre froide » a engendré des divisions qui n'ont pas épargné la recherche alpine sur la montagne. D’un point de vue occidental, les connaissances sur les montagnes situées derrière le rideau de fer étaient très limitées à cause de difficultés d’accessibilité mais également parce que les études effectuées par les collègues des pays socialistes étaient rarement disponibles, écrites dans une langue non-occidental…
Politische Ökologie des Postsozialismus
The consequences and effects of the socialist experiment are still felt today, a quarter century after the system change in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The political, economic and social transformation processes which occurred in this period have only partially led to a convergence with the West. The former socialist societies show, to this day, striking differences and specific paths, which is why "postsocialism" as an explanatory categ…
Local perceptions, knowledge systems and communication problems around the climate change discourse – examples from the Peruvian Andes
This article depicts the connections between the global climate change discourse and local perceptions in the Global South using the example of village communities of the Peruvian Andes.We argue that it is necessary to understand how the global climate change discourse is transmitted, processed and adapted under specific local and socio-cultural circumstances.Our argument is based on the assumption that not only physical climate change processes …
Festschrift zu Ehren von Christian Kirchner: Recht im ökonomischen Kontext
Mit der Festschrift für Christian Kirchner sollte ein außergewöhnlicher akademischer Lehrer und Forscher zu seinem 70. Geburtstag geehrt werden, der in seiner die Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften umfassenden Laufbahn, zuletzt während seiner fast 20-jährigen Tätigkeit als Professor an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, entscheidend zur Entwicklung des modernen Wirtschaftsrechts, insbesondere des Wettbewerbs- sowie des Regulierungsrechts, bei…
Mensch und Umwelt in Kirgistan: Politische Ökologie im postkolonialen und postsozialistischen Kontext
Wahrnehmung, Nutzung und Management von Umwelt und Naturressourcen werden maßgeblich durch politische Herrschaftsformen beeinflusst – so die These der Politischen Ökologie. Folglich führen systemische Umbrüche und Transformationen von Politik, Ökonomie und Gesellschaft zu Restrukturierungen von Institutionen und zu Modifikationen des Umgangs mit der Umwelt. Inwieweit die politischen Systeme in dem durch markante historische Zäsuren geprägten Mitt…
Migration past and present: Changing patterns in Kyrgyzstan
Internal and international labour migration is a main livelihood strategy for many people in rural areas of Kyrgyzstan. It is estimated that approximately one-third of the employable population of Kyrgyzstan is working abroad. However, current labour migration phenomena are not exceptional since Central Asia's history has always been characterized by the movement of people, including external and internal, forced and voluntary, legal and illegal,…
Wonderland of technology? How energy landscapes reveal inequalities and injustices of the German Energiewende
Environmental degradation at Lake Urmia (Iran): Exploring the causes and their impacts on rural livelihoods
During the last 20 years, Lake Urmia, once recognised as one of the largest hypersaline lakes on the planet, has suffered from severe environmental degradation. As a result of climate change and human activities, the lake has been largely desiccated. Previous work around the unfolding environmental disaster mainly focused on Lake Urmia’s water regime, water level fluctuations, crisis causes and possible actions to revive its fortunes. However, th…
Changing meanings of Kyrgyzstan's nut forests from colonial to post-Soviet times: Changing meanings of Kyrgyzstan's nut forests
Discourses shape the perception, conservation and utilisation of natural resources. This can be seen in the case of the globally unique walnut-fruit forests of southern Kyrgyzstan. This article shows the historical change of the discourse on protection and utilisation of these forests from the times of Russian colonialism and Soviet socialism up to present day post-Soviet capitalism. Due to the abundance of these forests, protection concepts were…
Is the post-fossil era necessarily post-capitalistic? – The robustness and capabilities of green capitalism
Human Geography of Post-Socialist Mountain Regions: An Introduction
The political situation during the so-called Cold War divided alpine and mountain research in at least two sections. From a Western perspective, knowledge about the mountains located behind the iron curtain was very limited due to restricted access and the fact that studies conducted by colleagues from socialist countries were rarely available, written in a non-Western language or just ignored. With the 1989/91 transformation, the numerous mounta…
Water populism and the Iranians' collective adipsia
This article examines Iran as an example, where the water crisis is dealt with through denial, projection, and securitization approaches, described as “water populism.” The Iranian polity systematically adopts denial and projection approaches to obscure an underlying causal chain whose first ring is ideology, and then, it resorts to the securitization of water to safeguard these approaches against public criticism. Ideology prescribes an intensiv…
Is the New Path a Modified Old Path: Smallholder Farmers’ Perspectives on Cotton Farming in Khatlon, Tajikistan
This article reviews the Soviet legacy in relation to contemporary cotton production in south-western Tajikistan and asks why farmers are still locked in to Soviet cotton production policies and practices despite post-Soviet regulatory, societal and environmental changes. With hindsight on Soviet agricultural production policies in Central Asia, this contribution scrutinises the perception of smallholder dehkhan farmers towards continued cotton p…
Environmental humanities: An Emerging Field of Transdisciplinary Research
Humanity is facing a global crisis that has been brought about by the domestication, exploitation and degradation of the natural environment. This crisis is closely interconnected with social structures and processes, and with cultural representations ‐ thus with history and politics, too. Therefore, historically, politically, aesthetically, and ethically reflective approaches that require the expertise of the humanities and social sciences are e…
A cup of coffee in Bishkek: Insights into the emerging coffee culture in Kyrgyzstan's capital
This study deals with the contemporary dynamics of urban life in Bishkek. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Central Asian societies have experienced widespread political, economic and socio-cultural transformations. In this context, Western or globalized cultural modes and trends influence Kyrgyzstan's social and cultural life. One of these trends is the increasingly popular coffee culture, with its attendant high-grade coffee brands and…
Unternehmensethik konkret: Gesellschaftliche Verantwortung Ernst Gemeint
Deutsche und polnische Juden vor dem Holocaust: Judische Identitat zwischen Staatsburgerschaft und Ethnizitat 1933-1940
Vereintes Deutschland — geteilte Jugend: Ein Politisches Handbuch
Interdependencies and reciprocity of private and common property resources in the Central Karakorum
2) Similarly, OLSON (1965) argues that in a big group of non-organised actors the utilisation of collective resources is led by the individual interests of the actors; the fear of freeriders hinders improvements and leads to over-utilisation of resources
Die Zukunft des Menschen: Perspektiven der Orientierung
Unsere Welt steht vor tiefgreifenden Veränderungen: Werden sie ein neues Bild des Menschen nach sich ziehen? Wie können wir selbst die Zukunft des Menschen bestimmen und von welchem Selbstbild wollen wir dabei ausgehen? Die Frage nach der Zukunft des Menschen ist nur beantwortbar im Rück-griff auf unsere Ursprünge: auf die Grundlagen unserer Kultur, auf unsere Deutung der Geschichte, auf das Potential von Religion und Glaube, auf die Selbstbilder…
Migration past and present: Changing patterns in Kyrgyzstan
Internal and international labour migration is a main livelihood strategy for many people in rural areas of Kyrgyzstan. It is estimated that approximately one-third of the employable population of Kyrgyzstan is working abroad. However, current labour migration phenomena are not exceptional since Central Asia's history has always been characterized by the movement of people, including external and internal, forced and voluntary, legal and illegal,…
Flourishing retail in the post-soviet sphere? Potentials and constraints of small-scale retail activities in rural Kyrgyzstan
The demise of the USSR led to the collapse of its centrally organised retail system. With this collapse the supply of consumer goods dried up, especially in the remote parts of the former USSR. At the same time the advent of capitalism offered a new institutional framework for independent retail activities. In the Kyrgyz Republic, where the economic liberalisation followed strictly the Washington Consensus, a large number of small shops emerged i…
Changing meanings of Kyrgyzstan's nut forests from colonial to post-Soviet times: Changing meanings of Kyrgyzstan's nut forests
Discourses shape the perception, conservation and utilisation of natural resources. This can be seen in the case of the globally unique walnut-fruit forests of southern Kyrgyzstan. This article shows the historical change of the discourse on protection and utilisation of these forests from the times of Russian colonialism and Soviet socialism up to present day post-Soviet capitalism. Due to the abundance of these forests, protection concepts were…
Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending WarThe Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier
Mensch und Umwelt in Kirgistan: Politische Ökologie im postkolonialen und postsozialistischen Kontext
Wahrnehmung, Nutzung und Management von Umwelt und Naturressourcen werden maßgeblich durch politische Herrschaftsformen beeinflusst – so die These der Politischen Ökologie. Folglich führen systemische Umbrüche und Transformationen von Politik, Ökonomie und Gesellschaft zu Restrukturierungen von Institutionen und zu Modifikationen des Umgangs mit der Umwelt. Inwieweit die politischen Systeme in dem durch markante historische Zäsuren geprägten Mitt…
Festschrift zu Ehren von Christian Kirchner: Recht im ökonomischen Kontext
Mit der Festschrift für Christian Kirchner sollte ein außergewöhnlicher akademischer Lehrer und Forscher zu seinem 70. Geburtstag geehrt werden, der in seiner die Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften umfassenden Laufbahn, zuletzt während seiner fast 20-jährigen Tätigkeit als Professor an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, entscheidend zur Entwicklung des modernen Wirtschaftsrechts, insbesondere des Wettbewerbs- sowie des Regulierungsrechts, bei…
Politische Ökologie des Postsozialismus
The consequences and effects of the socialist experiment are still felt today, a quarter century after the system change in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The political, economic and social transformation processes which occurred in this period have only partially led to a convergence with the West. The former socialist societies show, to this day, striking differences and specific paths, which is why "postsocialism" as an explanatory categ…
Local perceptions, knowledge systems and communication problems around the climate change discourse – examples from the Peruvian Andes
This article depicts the connections between the global climate change discourse and local perceptions in the Global South using the example of village communities of the Peruvian Andes.We argue that it is necessary to understand how the global climate change discourse is transmitted, processed and adapted under specific local and socio-cultural circumstances.Our argument is based on the assumption that not only physical climate change processes …
Simultaneity as a challenge for development
Human Geography of Post-Socialist Mountain Regions: An Introduction
The political situation during the so-called Cold War divided alpine and mountain research in at least two sections. From a Western perspective, knowledge about the mountains located behind the iron curtain was very limited due to restricted access and the fact that studies conducted by colleagues from socialist countries were rarely available, written in a non-Western language or just ignored. With the 1989/91 transformation, the numerous mounta…
Géographie humaine des régions montagneuses post-socialistes: Une introduction
La situation politique durant la « Guerre froide » a engendré des divisions qui n'ont pas épargné la recherche alpine sur la montagne. D’un point de vue occidental, les connaissances sur les montagnes situées derrière le rideau de fer étaient très limitées à cause de difficultés d’accessibilité mais également parce que les études effectuées par les collègues des pays socialistes étaient rarement disponibles, écrites dans une langue non-occidental…
Dynamic Processes and Developments in the Central Karakoram
Ответственность за содержание статей несут авторы
Repercussions of institutional governance changes on communication practices in the Afar National Regional State, Ethiopia
Formal and informal institutions guide and shape communities and communication practices worldwide. Colonization, modernization and political transformation processes changed and questioned the role and relevance of informal institutions and strengthened the position of formal institutions. This paper looks at institutional governance transitions and the increasing presence of formal as opposed to informal clan based practices in the pastoralist …
Commodity individuation of milk in the Somali Region, Ethiopia
Livestock is traditionally the central commodity for the Somali pastoralists of Ethiopia, a commodity that fulfils numerous purposes required to sustain livelihoods. Livestock commodification, however, is not limited to animal sales. Milk is a fundamental element of Somali life, used as a primary source of food for young animals and for human consumption. In the Somali Region, herders now sell milk, an act that was traditionally taboo, to supplem…
International tourism and urban transformation in Old Havana
Cuba is currently experiencing an unprecedented boom in international tourism, and the Cuban state has actively supported tourism expansion as a strategic means to increase greatly needed foreign currency income, in order to sustain its socialist system.In Havana, Cuba's gateway city for international tourists and -with its colonial old town bestowed with UNESCO world heritage status -one of its touristic hotspots, this tourism boom is felt most …
Is the post-fossil era necessarily post-capitalistic? – The robustness and capabilities of green capitalism
A cup of coffee in Bishkek: Insights into the emerging coffee culture in Kyrgyzstan's capital
This study deals with the contemporary dynamics of urban life in Bishkek. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Central Asian societies have experienced widespread political, economic and socio-cultural transformations. In this context, Western or globalized cultural modes and trends influence Kyrgyzstan's social and cultural life. One of these trends is the increasingly popular coffee culture, with its attendant high-grade coffee brands and…
Ungerechte Energielandschaften – die Produktion von Raum im Kontext der Transformation des deutschen Energiesystems
The study analyses the characteristic features of energy landscapes. By the example of the German energy transition, it is discussed in how far they are an expression of social inequality and injustice. Based on a review of the literature on socio-technical and socio-ecological dimensions of energy landscapes, the central findings will be integrated into Henri Lefebvre's concept “The Production of Space”. Thereby, those social spaces are identifi…
On the path to sustainable energy landscapes? The social shaping of energy landscapes in the face of climate protection measures
Potential spatio-temporal patterns of renewable energies that take into account international climate protection strategies have been neither analysed nor visualised exactly in terms of their landscape complexity. Furthermore, it is unclear what land uses would be prevalent in new energy landscapes, due to a lack of restrictions, and which social conflicts would be associated with these land use changes. There is no knowledge at all about the ext…
Wonderland of technology? How energy landscapes reveal inequalities and injustices of the German Energiewende
Political science (25 works) · Geography (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works)