Simon Runkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 929401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Runkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Runkel |
| SIGNATURE | RUNKEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3774-2433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Geographies of the future
Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism
How are terror threats and counterterrorism measures experienced in everyday urban spaces? We argue that thinking atmospherically about the spaces of urban encounters with (counter)terrorism is important, firstly, to identify and question feelings and dispositions shaped by discourses, practices, and infrastructures of (counter)terrorism; secondly, to contribute spatial perspectives of felt experience to literatures on security and (counter)terro…
Geopolitics of Urban Squares
In this article, we scrutinise the concept of 'affective atmosphere' at the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, Germany. By unpacking key moments and elements in the Breitscheidplatz's history, when measures of security and counterterrorism transformed, we investigate how the felt experience of city dwellers and users of the square altered. We argue that the concept of atmosphere, taking the affective dimension of urban life into account, offers an enric…
Religious Inflection in the Economy of Experience
The article offers a brief genealogy of the concept of atmosphere in the thought of Hermann Schmitz (New Phenomenology) and Gernot Böhme (Aesthetic Theory) to show that the concept takes on a quasi-religious appearance, especially in its design and economic applications. It is shown how a phenomenological concept of religious origin could become a pseudo-psychological marketing strategy. The article argues that the concept of atmosphere should no…
Praxeologische Feldforschung – Reichweite, Tragweite, Importanz und Relevanz als Analysekategorien
This paper develops three analytical categories – range, supporting capacity, exigency/notability – to capture how supra-individual phenomena affect the people studied by empirical research. Researchers face a tension between constructivist and realist perspectives as the examined phenomena are simultaneously social constructs, in the way people perceive and understand them, and social facts in their consequences. Taking a critical perspective on…
Gewohnheiten und Routinen - praxistheoretische Zugänge zu Geographien des Alltags
Versteck
Praktiken und Planung
Einführung
This article serves as introduction for a themed issue on Peter Sloterdijk's enormous philosophy of space. It invites scholars from various disciplines to critically engage with Sloterdijk's thought and discusses briefly the contributions made in this special issue. The paper gives some orientation on the anthropological and social philosophy Sloterdijk deploys within his oeuvre, and illuminates the various fields of social and cultural research …
Collective Atmospheres. Phenomenological explorations of protesting crowds with Canetti, Schmitz, and Tarde
The paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding collectively shared political agency in public space. By using a phenomenological approach, it explores the spaces of protest movements by deploying Elias Canetti’s perspective on crowds and links this to an affectively embodied spatiality of protesting crowds, which is conceptually framed as atmosphere. This endeavour is substantiated with the differentiation between atmospheres and sit…
Geographien sozialer Krisen/Krisen sozialer Geographien
This short paper provides the initial provocation for a themed issue that emerges from a conference on the topic of geographies of social crises/crises of social geographies. The article calls for a (re)consideration of the “social question” in the 21st century. We call for social geographers to engage with the historical dynamics of places and milieus to understand novel class societies and the violence that underpins social inequalities. The ar…
The future is now! Extrapolated riskscapes, anticipatory action and the management of potential emergencies
The future is now! Extrapolated riskscapes, anticipatory action and the management of potential emergencies
Collective Atmospheres. Phenomenological explorations of protesting crowds with Canetti, Schmitz, and Tarde
The paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding collectively shared political agency in public space. By using a phenomenological approach, it explores the spaces of protest movements by deploying Elias Canetti’s perspective on crowds and links this to an affectively embodied spatiality of protesting crowds, which is conceptually framed as atmosphere. This endeavour is substantiated with the differentiation between atmospheres and sit…
Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism
How are terror threats and counterterrorism measures experienced in everyday urban spaces? We argue that thinking atmospherically about the spaces of urban encounters with (counter)terrorism is important, firstly, to identify and question feelings and dispositions shaped by discourses, practices, and infrastructures of (counter)terrorism; secondly, to contribute spatial perspectives of felt experience to literatures on security and (counter)terro…
Geopolitics of Urban Squares
In this article, we scrutinise the concept of 'affective atmosphere' at the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, Germany. By unpacking key moments and elements in the Breitscheidplatz's history, when measures of security and counterterrorism transformed, we investigate how the felt experience of city dwellers and users of the square altered. We argue that the concept of atmosphere, taking the affective dimension of urban life into account, offers an enric…
Geographien sozialer Krisen/Krisen sozialer Geographien
This short paper provides the initial provocation for a themed issue that emerges from a conference on the topic of geographies of social crises/crises of social geographies. The article calls for a (re)consideration of the “social question” in the 21st century. We call for social geographers to engage with the historical dynamics of places and milieus to understand novel class societies and the violence that underpins social inequalities. The ar…
The future is now! Extrapolated riskscapes, anticipatory action and the management of potential emergencies
Einführung
This article serves as introduction for a themed issue on Peter Sloterdijk's enormous philosophy of space. It invites scholars from various disciplines to critically engage with Sloterdijk's thought and discusses briefly the contributions made in this special issue. The paper gives some orientation on the anthropological and social philosophy Sloterdijk deploys within his oeuvre, and illuminates the various fields of social and cultural research …
Collective Atmospheres. Phenomenological explorations of protesting crowds with Canetti, Schmitz, and Tarde
The paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding collectively shared political agency in public space. By using a phenomenological approach, it explores the spaces of protest movements by deploying Elias Canetti’s perspective on crowds and links this to an affectively embodied spatiality of protesting crowds, which is conceptually framed as atmosphere. This endeavour is substantiated with the differentiation between atmospheres and sit…
Gewohnheiten und Routinen - praxistheoretische Zugänge zu Geographien des Alltags
Versteck
Praktiken und Planung
Praxeologische Feldforschung – Reichweite, Tragweite, Importanz und Relevanz als Analysekategorien
This paper develops three analytical categories – range, supporting capacity, exigency/notability – to capture how supra-individual phenomena affect the people studied by empirical research. Researchers face a tension between constructivist and realist perspectives as the examined phenomena are simultaneously social constructs, in the way people perceive and understand them, and social facts in their consequences. Taking a critical perspective on…
Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism
How are terror threats and counterterrorism measures experienced in everyday urban spaces? We argue that thinking atmospherically about the spaces of urban encounters with (counter)terrorism is important, firstly, to identify and question feelings and dispositions shaped by discourses, practices, and infrastructures of (counter)terrorism; secondly, to contribute spatial perspectives of felt experience to literatures on security and (counter)terro…
Geopolitics of Urban Squares
In this article, we scrutinise the concept of 'affective atmosphere' at the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, Germany. By unpacking key moments and elements in the Breitscheidplatz's history, when measures of security and counterterrorism transformed, we investigate how the felt experience of city dwellers and users of the square altered. We argue that the concept of atmosphere, taking the affective dimension of urban life into account, offers an enric…
Religious Inflection in the Economy of Experience
The article offers a brief genealogy of the concept of atmosphere in the thought of Hermann Schmitz (New Phenomenology) and Gernot Böhme (Aesthetic Theory) to show that the concept takes on a quasi-religious appearance, especially in its design and economic applications. It is shown how a phenomenological concept of religious origin could become a pseudo-psychological marketing strategy. The article argues that the concept of atmosphere should no…
Geographies of the future
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)