Huib Ernste

• Professor
• Radboud University

In this brief contribution, I reflect on some of the newest tendencies and fashions in social theoretic thinking in the field of human geography and beyond. Human geography attracts its scholars, thinkers and audiences with its engagement to contribute to a better environment and a better world. As such human geography as a discipline is a politica...

In de Zwitserse Alpen ligt ten noorden van de Rhône het Lötschental. Het gebied heeft de status van UNESCO Werelderfgoed en staat bekend om zijn natuurschoon en eeuwenoude tradities. Dit artikel geeft een beschrijving van de regio en laat zien hoe lokale partijen erin slagen het toerisme binnen de perken te houden.

Although photography has long been acknowledged as an important research method and didactical tool in human geography, we feel the need to redraw attention to this particular form of doing explorative research. Today’s society becomes increasingly “ocularcentral”, yet this trend seems unparalleled with a rise of photography in academic work. Based...

Informality originated in the field of urban planning studies related to the global South. As this particular debate is aimed at making a contribution to planning theory in general, the concept has gradually traveled beyond the global South. This article explores how informality can be used to analyze community-led planning practices in Western cou...

With his three-volume magnum opus on spheres, Peter Sloterdijk introduces a critical philosophical and cultural view of the spatiality of current society. His spatial metaphors serve as an intriguing source for inspiration for geographers. He describes the topological conditions of society by means of three different forms of spherical conditions o...

In the debate on action-theoretic and the poststructuralist approaches in human geography, the former relies on a theory of modernity; the latter, on praxis theory. Action-theoretic approaches rest on the assumption of the effectivity of various kinds of rational and deliberative decision-making and actions. Proponents of poststructuralist approach...

Comparative research on gentrification is on the rise, especially since gentrification is no longer confined to historical, central neighbourhoods in First World countries, but also appeared in rural, new‐built areas and Second World countries. In this paper we present our comparative approach to investigate gentrification processes in four Europea...

If one compares different advanced systems of spatial planning, it is surprising that even similar systems show rather different results. This raises the question of what causes these differences. One obvious hypothesis is that in addition to the similarities between planning systems, a number of different ‘soft’ cultural factors also play a crucia...

When geographers think about ‘determinism’, it is usually in the context of debating the merits and demerits of ‘environmental determinism', the name given to a form of geographical study emphasizing how the natural environment (in the shape of climates, landforms, rivers, forests, etc.) influences – controls, indeed determines – how humans organiz...

In this introductory contribution to this special issue of "TESG", we want to question the usual way of conceptualising places and borders in the debate about transnationalism. We argue, that in studies of transnationalism, on the one hand the idea of nation-states as spatial containers is overcome, but on the other hand also reproduces the same sp...

In addressing the question of what might be next in human geography I endeavour to enrich the debates between Anglo-American poststructuralist and continental European action-theoretical approaches by bringing 'life' to the geographical subject. In contrast to established conceptualisations of the geographical self, I will introduce a conception of...

Without Abstract

This book is an inquiry into the nature and preconditions of public-private co- operation for managing environmental problems. That topic calls for an investigation of the place of such co-operation in public administration as well as within the private sector. In both realms, one can observe a continuous search for innovative managerial strategies...

In regional policy since the beginning of the 1980s a strong surge for new concepts, new approaches and alternative views has been growing. One of them is the concept of "flexible specialisation', which is based on decentralised networks of specialised, highly innovative and flexible independent firms. The concept was introduced to capture the main...

In dieser Arbeit ist schon viel über die Bedeutung von Sprache und Kommunikation gesagt worden. Es war auch von unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und Interpretationen die Rede, die im Zusammenhang mit der Komplexität der Umweltprobleme stehen.2 Es ist diese Situation der verschiedenen Sichten auf das Gleiche, die die Lösung dieser Probleme so schwieri...

Bisher haben wir Entmischungsprozesse erörtert, welche für die Entwicklung der modernen Stadt charakteristisch sind. Doch was genau wird dabei entmischt? In ökonomischer Hinsicht handelt es sich zunächst um beliebige Bodennutzungen, bei denen unterschiedliche Wirtschaftsaktivitäten unterschiedliche Güter und Dienst-leistungen — von Industriegütern...

Bisher haben wir uns auf Entwicklungen im Bereich der Arbeitsplätze konzentriert; nun wenden wir uns dem Bereich der Wohnungen und der Beziehung zwischen Wohnen und Arbeiten zu. Arbeitsplätze lassen sich als berufliche Territorien begreifen, Wohnungen als private. In menschlichen Lebensläufen werden diese Territorien zu den vielfältigen Mustern räu...

Wie hängen die im letzten Kapitel diskutierten Tendenzen im Bereich des Wohnens mit dem wirtschaftlichen Strukturwandel zusammen, den wir in Kapitel 3 betrachtet haben? Ein wichtiges Bindeglied besteht in der Problematik persönlicher Identitätsbildung, auf die wir im zweiten Kapitel zu sprechen kamen. Wir kontrastierten dort mit den Figuren von Wil...

Wir haben die moderne Stadt charakterisiert als eine Siedlungsform, in der Arbeiten und Wohnen territorial großräumig getrennt sind. Nicht diese moderne Trennung von beruflichen (Arbeiten) und privaten (Wohnen) Territorien, wohl aber die grundsätzliche Differenzierung zwischen ihnen haben wir dabei als ein Ergebnis kultureller Evolution dargestellt...

Die großräumige Trennung zwischen Arbeiten und Wohnen ist das städtebauliche Erbe der Modernisierung. Die Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Erbe ist keine leichte Aufgabe, wenn wir uns vor Augen halten, wie tief diese Trennung letztlich in sozialen Strukturen und kulturellen Mustern wurzelt. Dabei geht es zunächst um ein historisches Verstehen dieser W...

The 12 papers in the book (plus an editorial conclusion) are based on a conference "Society, information and space', held in Zurich in 1988. They give a combined analysis of the different enabling characteristics of information technologies with regard to corporate, regional and urban development. They reflect the importance of integrating social a...

An attempt was made to show that locational decisions have to be seen in a broader framework of strategical decision-making about the general organizational structure of the firm. It was shown that decisions like these are strongly bounded by the cultural environment, and that a contingency approach is to be used to understand how the degrees of fr...

Employing [3H]hemicholinium-3 ([3H]HC), [3H]pirenzepine([3H]PZ) and [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate ([3H]QNB), autoradiographic binding studies were performed to identify and quantitate the localization of high-affinity choline carriers, M1-subtype of muscarinic binding sites and a mixed population of M1- and M2-subtypes of muscarinic binding sites, re...

PIP: A brief review of the literature on turnaround migration is presented. The implications of this review for the study of migration in Switzerland are considered.