Geographische Zeitschrift
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH (DE) |
| ISSN | 0016-7479 / 2365-3124 |
| Scopus | 28757 |
| Wikidata | Q1503176 |
| OpenAlex | S20704927 |
| MAG | 20704927 |
| Website | http://www.steiner-verlag.de/GZ/ |
| Total publications | 16 |
| Coverage period | 2009 - 2025 |
| Country | DE |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 35 |
| Impact factor | 0.5 |
| SJR | 0.217 (Q3) |
| SNIP | 0.497 |
| CiteScore | 0.8 |
| h-index | 4 |
| i10-index | 1 |
| Female authorship share | 40.9% |
Geographische Zeitschrift is a general geography journal. While human and cultural geography can intersect with anthropology, this venue's broad scope means anthropological content is likely occasional rather than central
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The Uneven Geographies of Knowledge in Migration Scholarship
Influenced by literature on situated knowledge, linguistic hegemony, and epistemic communities, this paper proposes a reflexive geographical approach to migration scholarship, examining the asymmetrical power relations that shape this field of research. Through a cross-analysis of the development of migration studies in France and Morocco, and by bringing into dialogue our perspectives and experiences as a French and a Moroccan researcher, this a…
Ethnographische Kneipentouren
This article reflects the qualitative, ethnographic research of authoritarian divisions exemplified by a case study in pubs of Leipzig, East Germany. Based on a relational conception of space (Massey, 1994), advantages and ambiguities of ethnographic research on spatial subjectivation and far-right tendencies are discussed. Centrally, the entanglement of research method and object of research is illuminated. Pubs in Leipzig’s inner East are conte…
Pragmatist Animal Geographies
In recent years, more and more studies in animal geographies have emphasized the need for an ontological reconfiguration of traditional dualistic perspectives on human-animal relations. Therefore, our paper investigates the potential of a transactional perspective, based on classical philosophical pragmatism, to develop a deeper and non-dualistic understanding of encounters and relations between humans and non-humans. In doing that, we outline a …
Caring for Strangers
Commonly seen as either dangerous or unsocial, reptiles represent a kind of alterity that is often deemed categorically different from warm-blooded mammals. In the village of Manapany-les-Bains, however, on the island of La Réunion in the Western Indian Ocean, care for the endangered gecko species Phelsuma inexpectata has taken an unexpected turn: initiated by a local NGO, village residents have declared their private gardens a gecko-friendly zon…
Räumliche Sozialstruktur und raumbezogene Semantiken – Aushandlungen von „Peripherie“ und „Peripherisierung“ am Beispiel dreier Orte
Recent research in social geography is noted for its frequent use of concepts such as discourse, framing or imaginaries to address the space-relatedness which lies at the heart of culture. Less well-known in these discussions is the distinction made within systems theory between social structure and semantics. The distinction aims to organize the variety and complexity of social relations by separating them analytically into an accepted reality (…
Regionalforschung in der Geographie und interdisziplinäre area studies nach dem cultural turn
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…
Diskurs, Machttechnik, Assemblage. Neue Impulse für eine regionalgeographische Forschung
Geography has been interested in regions for a long time and thus developed and explored a wide range of concepts addressing the regional dimension of society. Against this background, the article discusses some of the impulses given by poststructuralist debates that have been explored in the field of new cultural geography/ Neue Kulturgeographie. Region are understood as concrete spatial forms that are produced within the realms of politics and …
Von Pappkameraden, diffusen Bedenken und einer alten Debatte
German geography currently appears to be dominated by a continuing critique of essentialist concepts of regions and an equalisation of Areas Studies with a rather naive study of world regions. This is astonishing since the idea that regions do not simply exist by themselves has long been widely acknowledged. However, this does not imply that regions do not matter anymore. Any research topic is embedded in a certain regional context the knowledge …
Ein sorgender Markt
Processes of neoliberalization cannot be reduced to deregulation and cut-back of public services and their restructuring based on market principles. They include a new logic of how markets themselves operate. The former distinction between competition and morals − between economic values and cultural values increasingly dissolves. While public services are transformed according to market based incentives, companies are increasingly expected to of…
Emotionen, Affekte und mehr-als-repräsentationale Geographien
Feminist geographers have criticized affective and non-representational geographies for not taking into account social differences. This paper brings feminist accounts of emotion and affect into dialogue with affective and non-representational geographies in order to develop a feminist more-than-representational geography. In a first step, three shared commitments of a non-representational research agenda are presented: (1) a focus on everyday pr…
Grenzenlose Konflikte. Programme kritischer Geographien und ihre Folgen
Critical geographies claim an exceptional status: they do not only want to pursue the scientific goal of systematic collection and provision of reliable knowledge. With varying degrees of radicalism, they also consider certain social relations deplorable and aspire to change them. With regard to science, their programs are risky because the two goals are likely to mutually undermine each other. Their programs are also a source of manifold and pot…
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…
Raum, Stadt und Machtverhältnisse
Contemporary human geography shows an increased interest in social theory, and this is especially true for German-speaking geographers. The conference series “Neue Kulturgeographie“ e. g. has had the effect to promote a debate on paradigms and epistemologies, which has gone beyond constructivist and poststructuralist approaches. This has also contributed to the popularity of the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu which can be summed up as “theory of practi…
Fit oder fett – Körperkult(-ur) und die Erforschung der Interdependenzen sozialer und räumlicher Kategorisierungen
Understanding the human body as a place where various dimensions of personal identities are intertwined, this contribution focuses on the role of the (un-)athletic body in relation to the production and appropriation of social spaces. For, issues such as “fit or fat” and the embodiments associated with them play increasingly important roles in everyday lives as well as for social and spatial structures. In the explanation of a research outline co…
New migration processes in contemporary China – The constitution of African trader networks in Guangzhou
The city of Guangzhou in southern China is characterised by a particularly pronounced inflow of Africans active in the export trade of Chinese goods to Africa. Research of such contemporary international migration in China has so far focused on socio-spatial effects, the social impact on society or macrostructural economic approaches. There has, however, been little discussion of questions related to the emergence and processuality of these very …
Kritische Kartographie
Maps categorize, define, arrange, locate, designate and thereby (re-)produce certain conceptions of the world. They affect our thinking and acting and are in this sense powerful. The new technical possibilities (esp. GIS, Web 2.0 cartography, georeferenced services) lead to changed conditions of the production and consumption of maps and go along with a boom of map-use. Against this background, the paper presents approaches of a critical cartogra…
Emotionen, Affekte und mehr-als-repräsentationale Geographien
Feminist geographers have criticized affective and non-representational geographies for not taking into account social differences. This paper brings feminist accounts of emotion and affect into dialogue with affective and non-representational geographies in order to develop a feminist more-than-representational geography. In a first step, three shared commitments of a non-representational research agenda are presented: (1) a focus on everyday pr…
Ein sorgender Markt
Processes of neoliberalization cannot be reduced to deregulation and cut-back of public services and their restructuring based on market principles. They include a new logic of how markets themselves operate. The former distinction between competition and morals − between economic values and cultural values increasingly dissolves. While public services are transformed according to market based incentives, companies are increasingly expected to of…
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…
New migration processes in contemporary China – The constitution of African trader networks in Guangzhou
The city of Guangzhou in southern China is characterised by a particularly pronounced inflow of Africans active in the export trade of Chinese goods to Africa. Research of such contemporary international migration in China has so far focused on socio-spatial effects, the social impact on society or macrostructural economic approaches. There has, however, been little discussion of questions related to the emergence and processuality of these very …
Pragmatist Animal Geographies
In recent years, more and more studies in animal geographies have emphasized the need for an ontological reconfiguration of traditional dualistic perspectives on human-animal relations. Therefore, our paper investigates the potential of a transactional perspective, based on classical philosophical pragmatism, to develop a deeper and non-dualistic understanding of encounters and relations between humans and non-humans. In doing that, we outline a …
Caring for Strangers
Commonly seen as either dangerous or unsocial, reptiles represent a kind of alterity that is often deemed categorically different from warm-blooded mammals. In the village of Manapany-les-Bains, however, on the island of La Réunion in the Western Indian Ocean, care for the endangered gecko species Phelsuma inexpectata has taken an unexpected turn: initiated by a local NGO, village residents have declared their private gardens a gecko-friendly zon…
Kritische Kartographie
Maps categorize, define, arrange, locate, designate and thereby (re-)produce certain conceptions of the world. They affect our thinking and acting and are in this sense powerful. The new technical possibilities (esp. GIS, Web 2.0 cartography, georeferenced services) lead to changed conditions of the production and consumption of maps and go along with a boom of map-use. Against this background, the paper presents approaches of a critical cartogra…
New migration processes in contemporary China – The constitution of African trader networks in Guangzhou
The city of Guangzhou in southern China is characterised by a particularly pronounced inflow of Africans active in the export trade of Chinese goods to Africa. Research of such contemporary international migration in China has so far focused on socio-spatial effects, the social impact on society or macrostructural economic approaches. There has, however, been little discussion of questions related to the emergence and processuality of these very …
Raum, Stadt und Machtverhältnisse
Contemporary human geography shows an increased interest in social theory, and this is especially true for German-speaking geographers. The conference series “Neue Kulturgeographie“ e. g. has had the effect to promote a debate on paradigms and epistemologies, which has gone beyond constructivist and poststructuralist approaches. This has also contributed to the popularity of the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu which can be summed up as “theory of practi…
Fit oder fett – Körperkult(-ur) und die Erforschung der Interdependenzen sozialer und räumlicher Kategorisierungen
Understanding the human body as a place where various dimensions of personal identities are intertwined, this contribution focuses on the role of the (un-)athletic body in relation to the production and appropriation of social spaces. For, issues such as “fit or fat” and the embodiments associated with them play increasingly important roles in everyday lives as well as for social and spatial structures. In the explanation of a research outline co…
Grenzenlose Konflikte. Programme kritischer Geographien und ihre Folgen
Critical geographies claim an exceptional status: they do not only want to pursue the scientific goal of systematic collection and provision of reliable knowledge. With varying degrees of radicalism, they also consider certain social relations deplorable and aspire to change them. With regard to science, their programs are risky because the two goals are likely to mutually undermine each other. Their programs are also a source of manifold and pot…
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…
Regionalforschung in der Geographie und interdisziplinäre area studies nach dem cultural turn
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…
Diskurs, Machttechnik, Assemblage. Neue Impulse für eine regionalgeographische Forschung
Geography has been interested in regions for a long time and thus developed and explored a wide range of concepts addressing the regional dimension of society. Against this background, the article discusses some of the impulses given by poststructuralist debates that have been explored in the field of new cultural geography/ Neue Kulturgeographie. Region are understood as concrete spatial forms that are produced within the realms of politics and …
Von Pappkameraden, diffusen Bedenken und einer alten Debatte
German geography currently appears to be dominated by a continuing critique of essentialist concepts of regions and an equalisation of Areas Studies with a rather naive study of world regions. This is astonishing since the idea that regions do not simply exist by themselves has long been widely acknowledged. However, this does not imply that regions do not matter anymore. Any research topic is embedded in a certain regional context the knowledge …
Ein sorgender Markt
Processes of neoliberalization cannot be reduced to deregulation and cut-back of public services and their restructuring based on market principles. They include a new logic of how markets themselves operate. The former distinction between competition and morals − between economic values and cultural values increasingly dissolves. While public services are transformed according to market based incentives, companies are increasingly expected to of…
Emotionen, Affekte und mehr-als-repräsentationale Geographien
Feminist geographers have criticized affective and non-representational geographies for not taking into account social differences. This paper brings feminist accounts of emotion and affect into dialogue with affective and non-representational geographies in order to develop a feminist more-than-representational geography. In a first step, three shared commitments of a non-representational research agenda are presented: (1) a focus on everyday pr…
Räumliche Sozialstruktur und raumbezogene Semantiken – Aushandlungen von „Peripherie“ und „Peripherisierung“ am Beispiel dreier Orte
Recent research in social geography is noted for its frequent use of concepts such as discourse, framing or imaginaries to address the space-relatedness which lies at the heart of culture. Less well-known in these discussions is the distinction made within systems theory between social structure and semantics. The distinction aims to organize the variety and complexity of social relations by separating them analytically into an accepted reality (…
Pragmatist Animal Geographies
In recent years, more and more studies in animal geographies have emphasized the need for an ontological reconfiguration of traditional dualistic perspectives on human-animal relations. Therefore, our paper investigates the potential of a transactional perspective, based on classical philosophical pragmatism, to develop a deeper and non-dualistic understanding of encounters and relations between humans and non-humans. In doing that, we outline a …
Caring for Strangers
Commonly seen as either dangerous or unsocial, reptiles represent a kind of alterity that is often deemed categorically different from warm-blooded mammals. In the village of Manapany-les-Bains, however, on the island of La Réunion in the Western Indian Ocean, care for the endangered gecko species Phelsuma inexpectata has taken an unexpected turn: initiated by a local NGO, village residents have declared their private gardens a gecko-friendly zon…
Ethnographische Kneipentouren
This article reflects the qualitative, ethnographic research of authoritarian divisions exemplified by a case study in pubs of Leipzig, East Germany. Based on a relational conception of space (Massey, 1994), advantages and ambiguities of ethnographic research on spatial subjectivation and far-right tendencies are discussed. Centrally, the entanglement of research method and object of research is illuminated. Pubs in Leipzig’s inner East are conte…
The Uneven Geographies of Knowledge in Migration Scholarship
Influenced by literature on situated knowledge, linguistic hegemony, and epistemic communities, this paper proposes a reflexive geographical approach to migration scholarship, examining the asymmetrical power relations that shape this field of research. Through a cross-analysis of the development of migration studies in France and Morocco, and by bringing into dialogue our perspectives and experiences as a French and a Moroccan researcher, this a…