Geography and Education
Department of Human GeographyFaculty of Earth Sciences/Geography
Goethe University Frankfurt a. M.
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6, PEG-Building, Room 2.G009
D - 60629 Frankfurt am Main
Fon: +49 (0)69 798 35156
E-Mail: schlottmann@geo.uni-frankfurt.de
Research Fields:
Nature – Society – Visuality and New Regional Geography
In both of my major research fields I seek to integrate scholarly spatial theories and educational questions concerning the communication and transfer of space-related knowledge. This focus originates from my previous work on processes of everyday regionalization and the constitution of space in everyday language use.
My research focus on relations of society and nature is strongly connected with the broader research area Nature – Society – Visuality. In a praxeological perspective I am concerned with the visual constitution of (nature-) space and places, its social conditions and implications. Against this background I elaborate didactical concepts for critical-reflexive visual competences.
Within the scope of the field “New Regional Geography / Concepts of space in educational practice" together with Roger Baars I study the everyday linguistic and discursive reality of regions and their borders in political practices (DFG-project on spatial concepts in political discourse: the case of Central Germany).
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Research Projects
Contested wildlife – neglected corporeality: The case of the Namib wild horses (with Robert Pütz, Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Living in Common worlds comprises a permanent struggle of advantaged and disadvantaged actors. Paradoxically, this holds even more, when it comes to objectives of conservation. Their application continuously produces borders between a nature worth conserving and a rather dispensable nature and its parts and members. Territories such as conservation areas confine a spatial fixation of such determinations of nature. However, borders, territories as well as related concepts of nature and wilderness are permanently struggled upon.
Against this background, the case of the wild horses in the Namib-Naukluft National Park in southern Namibia serves as an instructive example. Their struggle for life due to persistent drought and evermore pressure of predatory hyenas is for the Park management the common course of life and death, while representatives of local NGOs and touristic entrepreneurs empathetically claim for human action in order to save the horses from extinction.
We take this case in order to disentangle a conflict that comes with different agendas of what nature is about and what is worth conservation. Moreover, we analyse the postcolonial discourse, which in the case of Namibia this conflict is steeped with. Secondly, we show that actors in the field incorporate conservation as a praxis of bordering nature. Their embodiment of social norms and ethical values, however, leads to inner struggles and frictions with their affective experiences in the course of working with the horses and “caring” for them, sometimes in situations that crave a decision for life or death. We argue that neither established approaches of discourse analysis nor the newer assemblage perspectives sufficiently grasp this circumstance, and we suggest the phenomenological concept of intercorporeality as a promising perspective for understanding Human-animal relations in conservation practice.
The commercialization of wildlife encounter: selling nature to save it? Nature conservation as a market in Namibia (with Olivier Graefe, University of Fribourg)
It is estimated that 80 % of the wildlife in Namibia is now in possession of private game farmers and private parks. Here is good news: The number of elephants tripled since independence in 1990 and Namibia has by now the biggest national population of Black Rhinos while the species was near extinction in the 1980’s. Hence, the devolution of rights over wildlife to private land owners and custodians since the mid-1960 is unmistakably a success in terms of wildlife conservation and growth of animal population. So, what’s biting? At the same time, wildlife conservation has turned into a source of profit and nowadays attracts many actors like private entrepreneurs, companies but also nature conservation NGOs. Competition is fierce. The trade for animals developed immensely not only in form of auctions and sells by catalogue for hunting concessions, trophies and life animals for breeding, but also for touristic wildlife encounter of different kinds in private game reserves. In short, there is a new complexity of commercialization of wildlife going on with yet unidentified implications for humans, nature, and their relationships.
While the political economy of lively commodities, especially price fluctuations of different species are worth own research, our purpose is to understand the potential as well as occurring implications of the commercialization of wildlife from a political-ecological and socionature perspective. Therefore, as a complement to use and exchange value, we employ the concept of encounter value introduced by Donna Haraway (2008) and further developed by Maan Barua (2016).
The Outdoors: Spaces of nature/culture and the body in the advertisement of a growing industry
Theoretical framing
The outdoors is not a given, waiting for being represented. It is made real, presented and enacted in various fields of communicative practice.
Depending on the angle of reflection the outdoors may then appear as a growing industry of so called outdoor products (rising number of outdoor trade fairs, spread of companies that sell outdoor wear / gear). This industry advertises in a growing number of journals dedicated to outdoor pursuits (tgo, trail, ute, outdoor), and obviously there is a broad readership that can be addressed with outdoor issues. According to common language use, the outdoors can also be understood as a space that can be entered (and left). As such, it appears as a destination for a growing number of people doing so called outdoor sports such as hiking, trekking, canyoning. Children are sent to the outdoors for educational reasons.
On the other hand, the outdoors seems to be something that can be experienced. According to habitual language use people cannot only travel to the outdoors, but also enjoy it or explore it. The outdoors is – at least to some extent - constituted by the practice of experiencing and feeling “outdoors". In this respect, the outdoors may appear as a synonym for nature: The “Profilstudie Wandern" 2005 of the German Institute for Hiking (Marburg) shows that “enjoying nature" is a growing motivation for people relocating their leisure activities to the outdoors (Profilstudie Wandern 05/06: http://www.wanderforschung.de/files/prostu060-korrektur1251264511.pdf). This report also shows a trend towards solitude hiking (i.e. no longer understanding hiking as a group experience, an idea that was formative for the Wandervogel movement in the late 19th century or the rise of organised tours as members of Alpine Clubs etc.). Theoretically, the phenomenon is hence connected to an increasing individualistic body-centred culture – in response to a life-style more and more steeped in technology and artificial surroundings (Bette 2001). This stresses not only the important force of a visual consumption of the environment (Urry 2002, Urry and Larsen 2011), but also of consuming natural space with the whole body.
This tentative approach to what is called the outdoors reveals various dimensions of my research subject (rather than conclusively explaining its nature):
- the outdoors is a complex social construction, a relative and contingent, yet stabilized concept that is somehow interlinked with other concepts such as space, nature (and its opposite, say culture), and the body
- this communicative interplay involves the dimension of meaning as well as the dimension of experience, theoretically spoken: the construction of the outdoor has a semiotic and a phenomenological side, a representational and a presentational level.
Though these two realms might seem to be disjoint, I adopt the theoretic assumption that they are dialectically intertwined. Even experiences of what is called the outdoors are not pure or innocent or in a way antecedent and hence more real. Rather, like the realm of meaning, they are discursively informed. Taking this as a starting point for a heuristic approach, the question I am concerned with is:
What does the everyday making of “the outdoors" as both a representation and a presentation reveal about contemporary understandings of nature and culture and their respective “spaces"? And how is a contemporary concept of the body involved in this process?
Put as a working hypothesis: (Re-)Presentations of the outdoor are a key for observing the contemporary discursive interplay of ideas of nature, culture and the body.
Methodology
Visual images, I suggest, are of vital importance in order to grasp both the semiotic and the experiential dimension of the discursive construction, because they can be theorized as mediator of signification and sensation
As Sachs-Hombach (2001) (following the French Philosopher Merleau-Ponty) put it, visual images are “perceptional signs", they dwell in an ontological interspace. That means, visual images do not simply reproduce and frame an external world of objects. Nor should they be understood as pure subjective constructions, or rather, as genuine products of the mind. They are rather “in betweens" since they have both a representational reproductive and a presentational productive character. On the one hand, according to Watzlawick, visual images provide an “analogous" form of communication (see Watzlawick et al. 1971, 61ff.). 'Analogous' here means, that material images do not present their message by contingent naming (that follows a linear grammar), but by similarity relations. On the other hand, as phenomenologists such as Waldenfels point out, this similarity is neither barely representative nor “innocent". Speaking from a critical realistic stance, visualization is not as contingent as naming, yet analogous images (especially computer generated images) are always culturally informed. Additionally, visual images are intertwined with the performative act of perceiving. And this act of perceiving, in turn, is discursively informed as well. There is no such thing like the innocent eye. Perceiving in this perspective is the performance of codes that have been learned through social institutions.
The visual images hence can be seen as powerful agents in the re-production of concepts such as space, nature and the body on the one hand. On the other hand, visual images can be conceptualized as powerful agents in the discursive structuration of sensations of space, nature and the lived body (Leib), in Foucauldian terms: visual images bear “somatic power". The value of a conceptual difference between the body (Körper) and the lived body (Leib) gets obvious in this regard. Though these concepts describe different analytical levels, some theorists claim convincingly, that the lived body is also discursively formed, in Foucault's terms, that it is an object of genealogy. Hence the idea of first-order experience must be questioned, or rather reflected and historized: what is the cultural origin of absolute feelings we have? And why do we take them naturally for granted?
One approach in this direction is to understand that images bear truth claims about the objects they visualize. They bear a mimetic implicitness, a character of evidence, and they imply illocutionary acts such as “the presented object looks like the object represented!" or “the presented place (there) looks like this!"). According to speech-act theory these can be understood as “visual assertive statements". Associated sensations thus easily lose their subjective character and appear to be mere responses to inherent features of visualized environments. The romantic gaze (Urry 1990), for instance, is not experienced as contingent and culturally informed gaze. Instead, the landscape gazed at is experienced as if it was romantic by nature. Hence, images – and seeing or gazing respectively - are powerful agents in the process of naturalizing affective relations to objects or the environment
In sociological theory of embodiment or “incorporation", this naturalizing effect is seen as an important stance of validating organizational and complexity reducing structures of the social (Jäger 2004), for example the understanding of the world in terms of binaries such as nature and culture.
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Findings
From the outlined theoretical/methodical perspective I have traced the continuous performance of the nature/culture dualism (as a social construction) and the respective incorporation of the body in the ads of the outdoor industry.
This dualism is clearly manifest in the propositions of many visual images and their captions. The outdoors as a natural space is typically depicted as the non-human, the non-technical or non-artificial. The images provide the idea of a pure and exclusive nature and they evoke - via kinaesthetic effects - purified nature feelings. Furthermore, these images rely on topoi such as escaping from artificial surroundings and “going nature". The outdoors thus appears as a late-modern arcadia where members of an urbanised and technology-based society can regain freedom and self-affirmation.
Surely, this construction of a quiet zone where you can recover from an over-directed working life obscures the fact that it is precisely the satisfaction of this need which reproduces the functionality for this working life.
Likewise, the idea of regaining freedom obscures the fact that the proposed dress code for the outdoors can also be seen as a disciplinary action of the outdoor industry. The outdoor body as constructed by the images is not only fit and well trained but uniformly dressed in hi-end functional wear.
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References
- Bette, Karl-Heinz (2001): »Körper, Sport und Individualisierung«. In: G. von Randow (Hg.), Wieviel Körper braucht der Mensch? Standpunkte zur Debatte für den deutschen Studienpreis. Hamburg, S. 89-100.
- Jäger, Ulle (2004): Der Körper, der Leib und die Soziologie. Entwurf einer Theorie der Inkorporierung, Königstein/Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag.
- Plessner, Helmut (1982): »Der Mensch als Lebewesen«. In: Helmut Plessner (Hg.), Mit anderen Augen. Aspekte einer philosophischen Anthropologie, Stuttgart: Reclam, S. 9-62.
- Sachs-Hombach, Klaus (2001): »Bild und Prädikation« In: Klaus Sachs-Hombach (Hg.), Bildhandeln: interdisziplinäre Forschungen zur Pragmatik bildhafter Darstellungsformen, Bildwissenschaft Band 3, Magdeburg: Scriptum-Verlag, S. 55-76.
- Searle, John R. (1982): Ausdruck und Bedeutung. Untersuchungen zur Sprechakttheorie, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp.
- Urry, John (22002): The Tourist Gaze, London: Sage.
- Urry, John & Jonas Larsen (2011): Tourist Gaze 3.0. London: Sage.
- Watzlawick, Paul/Beavin, Janet H./Jackson, Don D. (1971): Menschliche Kommunikation. Stuttgart: Verlag Hans Huber.
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Publications
- 2012 Schlottmann, A.: Outdoor. In: Marquardt, N. & V. Schreiber (Hg.): Ortsregister. Ein Glossar zu Räumen der Gegenwart. Bielefeld: transcript, 211-216.
- 2010 Schlottmann, A. : Erlebnisräume / Raumerlebnisse: Zur Konstruktion des "Draußen" in Bildern der Werbung. In: Wöhler, K.-H.; Denzer, V. & Pott, A.: Tourismusräume. Zur soziokulturellen Konstruktion eines globalen Phänomens. Bielefeld: transcript, 67-88.
- 2009 Schlottmann, A.: „Endlich Platz!“: Zur Konstitution von Raumerlebnissen in der Werbung. In: Döring, J. (Hg.): Geo-Visiotype. Zur Werbegeschichte der Telekommunikation. MUK 170/171 Massenmedien und Kommunikation. Siegen: universi, 35-70.
- 2009 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink: Visuelle Geographien – ein Editorial. In: Social Geography 4, 13-24. (Special Issues - an editorial)
- 2009 Miggelbrink, J. & Schlottmann, A.: Diskurstheoretisch orientierte Analyse von Bildern. In: Glasze, G. & A. Mattissek (Hg.): Handbuch Diskurs und Raum. Theorien und Methoden für die Humangeographie sowie die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Raumforschung. Bielefeld: transcript, 181-198.
- 2006 Schlottmann, A.: Outdoor-Boom und geregeltes Draußen – Anleitungen zum Aufenthalt in der freien Natur. In: Praxis Geographie, 36, 4, 14-17.
Images of nature from a childrens’ perspective. A comparative case study between Germany and Sweden.
Concept and Aims
The Project aims to gain and deepen insight into the ideas and concepts of nature and nature spaces, which children at an age of around 12 years have formed and which they adopt to make sense of the world and their environment.Against the background of theories of significative appropriation of space (Werlen 1993) as well as iconographic and phenomenological approaches to the perception of material surroundings (Sachs-Hombach 2001), we aim to figure out to what extend children have aquired ideas about the nature/ Culture divide and enclosed landscape entities such as forests, woodlands or urban areas.Additionally, we are interested in the perception of cultural heritage such as the Stora Alvaret on Öland in Sweden and the Biosphärenreservat Rhön in Germany, for instance. What differences can be analysed in comparing children with an urban and rather nature-distant educational background (Frankfurt), and children with a rural and rather close to nature educational background (Torslunda)? Are there any differences?This research is strongly related to recent discussions around Actor Network and non-representational approaches (Whatmore 2002, Thrift 2007) and a possible overcoming of traditional dualistic thinking: What can we learn from children as regards perceiving the environment as “heterogenous associations"? At what age and under what conditions could a non-dualistic education in school curricula be effective? What would be the implications for present scholarly worldviews?
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Methodology
Analytical frameworks combining semiotic and phenomenological approaches (Renggli) by using quantitative and qualitative methods such as mental mapping, reflexive photography, group discussion, hermeneutics.
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Project members
Torslunda Skola (Torslunda), Station Linné (Skogsby), Linné Universitetet (Kalmar), Gymnasium Riedberg (Frankfurt am Main) and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main).
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References
- Sachs-Hombach, Klaus (ed.) (2001): Bildhandeln: interdisziplinäre Forschungen zur Pragmatik bildhafter Darstellungsformen, Bildwissenschaft Band 3, Magdeburg.
- Thrift, N. (2007): Non-Representational Theory. London.
- Werlen, B. (1993): Society, action and space. London.
- Whatmore, S. (2002): Hybrid geographies: natures cultures spaces. London.
Multiple Spatial Dimensions in Political Discourses – Inducing the Metropolitan Region of Central Germany
Theoretical Framing
In their inspiring paper on socio-spatial theory Jessop, Brenner and Jones (2008) identified four distinct spatial lexicons that have been developed by social scientists over the last thirty years: territory, place, scale, and network (Dicken, Kelly, Olds & Yeung, 2001; Paasi, 2004; Sheppard, 2002). These lexicons are associated with specific spatial turns and, although they problematize different issues, they should actually be seen as closely intertwined theoretically and empirically (Leitner, Sheppard & Sziarto, 2008).
However, advocates of a given turn are often tempted to focus on one dimension of spatial relations, neglecting the role of other forms of socio-spatial organisation (Leitner et al., 2008). Such one-dimensionalism falls into the trap of conflating one part (territory, place, scale, or networks) with the whole (the totality of socio-spatial organisation). In contrast, Jessop et al. (2008) argue for all four dimensions to be put into play, albeit not necessarily all at once.
Elsewhere, Terlouw and Weststrate (2013) argue for an overdue shift of attention from the historical evolution of current regions to the circumstances in the present in which regions are actually constructed. The starting point, then, is not the social construction of a specific region, but the motives behind the use of regions by local stakeholders in different situations to promote their interests. In other words, regions as socio-spatial relations (regions-in-becoming) are conceptualised as publics-in-stabilisation (Metzger, 2013).
Yet, Terlouw and Weststrate's (2013) one-sided focus on 'scale' must be seen as problematic leading to the sidelining of other spatialities in favour of scale as primus inter pares (Casey, 2008), first among equals, thereby contradicting this project's emphasis on the important interplay between different spatial dimensions (Jessop et al., 2008).
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Aims and Objectives
Drawing on earlier studies (Felgenhauer, et al., 2005; Schlottmann et al., 2007; Schlottmann, 2008) on spatial semantics of Central Germany (Mitteldeutschland), this project aims to achieve the following two main objectives. First, the project explores the role and motives of political stakeholders inducing multiple spatialities of the metropolitan region Central Germany – a loose political alliance comprising the three German federal states Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. Second, the multi-dimensionality of spatial organisation is emphasised in this research analysing interdependencies between different spatial lexicons of scale, territory, and networks in the context of the metropolitan region.
The general and comparative questions therefore become:
- Why and how do political stakeholders utilise regional spatialities to promote their specific interests?
- Which spatial references are drawn upon and how do different lines of argumentation fluctuate in multiple contexts?
The spatial strategies of political stakeholders never focus on only one spatiality, but on a patchwork of related territories, scales, and networks. Instead of tracing the evolution of patterns of regional formation, as reflected in a single spatiality over time, the aim of this project is to contribute to current debates in regional and political geography by comparing intentions of local stakeholders shifting their support for a region, conceptualised as various partially overlapping spatialities, in order to secure/promote their interests to accommodate changing circumstances.
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Methodology
This research is conceptualised as a qualitative micro-analytical study focusing on official documents and expert interviews as resources. A multitude of analytical methods will be deployed in this venture including discourse (Dittmer, 2010), metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 2011), and argumentation analysis (Toulmin, 2003).
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Project Members
This is a conjoint research project conducted by Prof Antje Schlottmann and Roger Baars; funded since 2013 by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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Presentations
“Regional Governance and the 'Phantom Region' Mitteldeutschland: The Political Dimension of Spatial Concepts". Paper presented at 'Phantom Borders in the Political Behaviour and Electoral Geography in East Central Europe' conference. The European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), 14.-15. November 2013.
"Inducing the Metropolitan Region of Central Germany - Multiple Spatial Dimensions of Politico-Economic Discourses." Paper presented at 'Regional Studies Association Winter Conference. Mobilizing Regions: Territorial Strategies for Growth'. Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury, London, UK. 22. November 2013.
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Publications
- 2013 Baars, R., & Schlottmann, A.: The Central German Metropolitan Region - Multiple Spatial Dimensions of Politico-Economic Discourses. Paper presented at the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference. 'Mobilizing Regions: Territorial Strategies for Growth'. London, UK: Regional Studies Association
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References
- 2015 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: Taking Borders Elsewhere – The Political Performance of Phantom Borders in Central Germany? Europa Regional (Special Issue).
- 2015 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: Spatial Multidimensionalities and the politics of regions: The 'Phantom Region' of Central Germany. Erdkunde (Special Issue).
- Casey, E. S. (2008). Questioning "Theorizing Sociospatial Relations". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(3), 402-404.
- Dicken, P., Kelly, P. F., Olds, K., & Yeung, W.-C. H. (2001). Chains and Networks, Territories and Scales: Towards a Relational Framework for Analysing the Global Economy. Global Networks, 1(2), 89-112.
- Dittmer, J. (2010). Textual and Discourse Analysis. In: D. DeLyser, S. Herbert, S. Aitken, M. Crang & L. McDowell (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography (pp. 274-286). Los Angeles, CA: SAGE.
- Felgenhauer, T., Mihm, M., & Schlottmann, A. (2005). The Making of Mitteldeutschland: On the Function of Implicit and Explicit Symbolic Features for Implementing Regions and Regional Identity. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 87(1), 45-60.
- Jessop, B., Brenner, N., & Jones, M. (2008). Theorizing Sociospatial Relations. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(3), 389-401.
- Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2011). Metaphors We Live By (6th ed.). Chicago, IL: Universitry of Chicago Press.
- Leitner, H., Sheppard, E., & Sziarto, K. M. (2008). The Spatialities of Contentious Politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33(2), 157-172.
- Metzger, J. (2013). Raising the Regional Leviathan: A Relational-Materialist Conceptualization of Regions-in-Becoming as Publics-in-Stabilization. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(4), 1368-1395.
- Paasi, A. (2004). Place and Region: Looking Through the Prism of Scale. Progress in Human Geography, 28(4), 536-546.
- Schlottmann, A., Felgenhauer, T., Mihm, M., Lenk, S., & Schmid, M. (2007). >Wir sind Mitteldeutschland!< Konstitution und Verwendung territorialer Bezugseinheiten unter raum-zeitlich entankerten Bedingungen. In B. Werlen (Ed.), Sozialgeographie alltäglicher Regionalisierungen - Band 3 (pp. 297-). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
- Schlottmann, A. (2008). Closed Spaces: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(5), 823-841.
- Sheppard, E. (2002). The Spaces and Times of Globalization: Place, Scale, Networks, and Positionality. Economic Geography, 78(3), 307-330.
- Terlouw, K., & Weststrate, J. (2013). Regions as Vehicles for Local Interests: The Spatial Strategies of Medieval and Modern Urban Elites in the Netherlands. Journal of Historical Geography, 40, 24-35.
- Toulmin, S. E. (2003). The Uses of Argument. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- 2009/10 Schlottmann, A. & M. Hannah (eds.): Lost in translation? Interkulturelle Forschungs- und Publikationspraktiken in kritischer Betrachtung/A critical engagement with intercultural research and publication practices. (Special Issue in Social Geography)
Books
- 2021 Baade, J., Gertel, H. & A. Schlottmann: Wissenschaftlich Arbeiten – Ein Leitfaden für Studierende der Geographie. UTB 2630. Bern: Haupt (4th revised edition).
- 2019 Schlottmann, A. & J. Wintzer: Weltbildwechsel: Ideengeschichten geographischen Denkens und Handelns. Bern: Haupt.
- 2014 Baade, J., Gertel, H. & A. Schlottmann: Wissenschaftlich Arbeiten – Ein Leitfaden für Studierende der Geographie. Bern: Haupt (3rd revised edition).
- 2005 Schlottmann, A.: RaumSprache – Ost-West-Differenzen in der Berichterstattung zur deutschen Einheit. Eine sozialgeographische Theorie. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.
- 1998 Schlottmann, A.: Entwicklungsprojekte als 'Strategische Räume': Eine akteursorientierte Analyse von sozialen Schnittstellen am Beispiel eines ländlichen Entwicklungsprojektes in Tanzania. Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik.
Editorships
- 2020 Pütz, R. & A. Schlottmann (Eds.): Geographien von Mensch-Tier-Verhältnissen. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 108, 3, 150-152 (Editorial for the theme issue).
- 2017 Jahnke, H., Schlottmann, A. & M. Dickel (Eds.): Räume visualisieren. Geographiedidaktische Forschungen. Münster: Münsterscher Verlag für Wissenschaft.
- 2016 Gryl, I., Schlottmann, A. & D. Kanwischer (Eds.): Mensch:Umwelt:System – Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele für den Geographieunterricht. Berlin: LIT-Verlag.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink (Eds.): Visuelle Geographien. Produktion, Aneignung und Praxis der Vermittlung von RaumBildern. Bielefeld: transcript.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. & P. Reuber (Eds.): Mediale Raumkonstruktionen und ihre Wirkungen. (Special Issue in Geographische Zeitschrift)
- 2014 Turner, J., Hannah, M. & A. Schlottmann (Eds.): Criminality and Carcerality Across Boundaries. (Special Edition Social Geography in Geographica Helvetica)
- 2010 Graefe, O., Korf, B. & A. Schlottmann (Eds.): Natur und Gesellschaft. Neue Theorien in kritischer Sichtung. Theorizing nature and society – a critical review. (Theme issue in Geographische Zeitschrift)
- 2009/10 Schlottmann, A. & M. Hannah (Eds.): Lost in translation? Interkulturelle Forschungs- und Publikationspraktiken in kritischer Betrachtung/A critical engagement with intercultural research and publication practices. (Special issue in Social Geography)
- 2006/09 Miggelbrink, J. & A. Schlottmann (Eds.): Visual Geographies – visuelle Geographien. (Special issue in Social Geography)
Journal articles & peer reviewed papers
submitted:
- Expected 2024 Poerting, J. und Schlottmann, A.: Animals and their visual constitution in social media: Petfluencers, consumer culture and charisma.
published:
- 2023 Schlottmann, A. & O. Graefe: Wild views on sale: commercialization of visual encounters in Namibian wildlife conservation. In: Globalizations, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2252689
- 2023 Sylvester, F., et al. : Better integration of chemical pollution research will further our understanding of biodiversity loss. In: Nat Ecol Evol 7, 1552-1555, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02117-6
- 2023 Nöthen, E. & A. Schlottmann: Stadtgrün: erleben, denken, vermitteln. Exkursionsimpulse für den Frankfurter GrünGürtel. In: GW-Unterricht 171, 3, 18-27, https://doi.org/10.1553/gw-unterricht171s18
- 2021 Nöthen, E., Miggelbrink, J. & A. Schlottmann: Bildanalyse. Wege zur Ausbildung eines kritisch-reflexiven Blicks (nicht nur) im Geographieunterricht am Beispiel „Müll“. In: GW-Unterricht 164, 4, 35-48. https://doi.org/10.1553/gw-unterricht164s35
- 2020 Chihab, L., Herrmann, K., Schlottmann, A. & E. Nöthen: Of Skyscrapers and Windmills: Enhancing Intercultural Learning by Utilizing Four Key Spatial Concepts. In: The Geography Teacher, 17, 1, 13-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/19338341.2019.168041
- 2020 Pütz, R. & A. Schlottmann (Eds.): Geographien von Mensch-Tier-Verhältnissen. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 108, 3, 150-152. (Editorial zum Themenheft).
- 2020 Pütz, R. & A. Schlottmann: Contested Conservation - neglected corporeality. The case of the Namibian Wild Horses. In: Geographica Helvetica 75, 2, 93-106. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-93-2020
- 2020 Poerting, J. & A. Schlottmann: Das Charisma der Petfluencer: Zur Medialisierung konsumtiver Mensch-Tier Beziehungen am Beispiel Instagram. Berichte. In: Geographie und Landeskunde 93, 145-170.
- 2019 Schlottmann, A.: Gegenwärtige Zukünfte. Drei bildungsgeographische Miniaturen im Anschluss an Ute Wardengas GZ Journal Lecture 2019. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 108, 1, 32-38. https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2019-0015
- 2018 Schlottmann, A.: Kritische Geographische Entwicklungsforschung - auch eine Frage der Positionierung! Ein Kommentar zum Beitrag von Theo Rauch. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 106, 3, 205-210. https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2018-0014
- 2017 Kanwischer, D. & A. Schlottmann: Virale Raumkonstruktionen – Soziale Medien und #Mündigkeit im Kontext gesellschaftswissenschaftlicher Medienbildung. In: Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Gesellschaftswissenschaften 8, 2, 60-78.
- 2016 Lühken, A., Braun, T. , Lippert, J., Dierkes, P., Kanwischer, D. & A. Schlottmann: Biotreibstoffe – vom Feld in den Tank? In: MNU-Journal 4, 250-247.
- 2016 Dietz, C., Kuni, V. & A. Schlottmann: Wege ins Stadtgrün. In: MNU-Journal 3, 262-268.
- 2016 Schlottmann, A. & M. Hannah: Fragen des Stils/Questions of Style. In: ACME 15, 1, 81-103.
- 2015 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: Taking borders elsewhere: the political performance of phantom borders in Central Germany. In: Europa Regional 22.2014, 3-4, 90-100.
- 2015 Nöthen, E. & A. Schlottmann: Stadt in den Blick genommen. Ansätze zur Differenzierung beim Erwerb kritisch-reflexiver visueller Kompetenz. In: GW-Unterricht 139, 3, 32-41.
- 2015 Nöthen, E., Schlottmann, A. & D. Kanwischer: BILD MACHT STADT. Eine Unterrichtsanregung zum kritisch-reflexiven Umgang mit alltäglichen Visualisierungen. In: Geographie Heute 324, 26-29.
- 2015 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: Spatial Multidimensionalities in the politics of regions: Constituting the 'Phantom Region' of Central Germany. In: Erdkunde 69, 2, 175-186. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2015.02.07
- 2014 Schlottmann, A., Mösgen, A. & T. Böhm: Räumliche Sozialisation und Schule – Theorie und Praxis eines Bausteins humangeographischer Lehrerbildung. In: Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik 42, 2, 97-113. https://doi.org/10.18452/23982
- 2012 Schlottmann, A.: Das Unaussprechliche. Akademische Netzwerkwirklichkeiten sprachpragmatisch betrachtet. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 86, 4, 403-410.
- 2012 Busch-Geertsema, A., Lanzendorf, M., Nöthen, E., Prill, T. & A. Schlottmann: Bewegte Welt: Mobilität nachhaltig gestalten – Idee für einen Schnupperkurs in der Wissenschaft. In: Praxis Geographie 42, 44-45.
- 2011 Schlottmann, A.: Allerlei Raum: Eine Nachlese zum „Spatial turn“. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 85, 3, 309-313.
- 2011 Belina, B., Gelinsky, E., Schlottmann, A. & Wissen, M.: Eisel heute? Landschaft und Gesellschaft. Räumliches Denken im Visier. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 85, 1, 105-120.
- 2010 Schlottmann, A., Graefe, O. & B. Korf: Things that matter. A dialogue on interpretative and material semiotics in geography. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 89, 4, 226-236.
- 2010 Schlottmann, A.: Peter Weichharts Entwicklungslinien der Sozialgeographie (2008): Eine Bestandsaufnahme. II Pragmatische Anfragen an die Entwicklungslinien. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 84, 3, 294-297.
- 2010 Graefe, O., Korf, B. & A. Schlottmann: Einführung in das Themenheft Natur und Gesellschaft – Neue Theorien in kritischer Sichtung: Editorial Theorizing Nature and Society – A critical review. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 89, 4, 191-193.
- 2009 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink: Visual geographies – an editorial. In: Social Geography 4, 1-11.
- 2009 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink: Visuelle Geographien – ein Editorial. In: Social Geography 4, 13-24.
- 2008 Schlottmann, A.: Closed Spaces: Can't live with them, can't live without them. In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26, 5, 823-841. https://doi.org/10.1068/d0706
- 2008 Schlottmann, A.: Wie aus Worten Orte werden: Gehalt und Grenzen sprechakttheoretischer Sozialgeographie. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 95, 1/2, 5-23.
- 2007 Schlottmann, A.: Was ist Mitteldeutschland und wo liegt es? Eine etwas andere Länderkunde. In: Geographische Rundschau 59, 6, 4-9.
- 2007 Felgenhauer, T. & A. Schlottmann: Schreiben → Senden → Schauen? – Medienmacht und Medienohnmacht im Prozess der symbolischen Regionalisierung. In: Social Geography 2, 77-83.
- 2006 Schlottmann, A.: Outdoor-Boom und geregeltes Draußen – Anleitungen zum Aufenthalt in der freien Natur. In: Praxis Geographie, 36, 4, 14-17.
- 2006 Schlottmann, A.: Begrenzte Sprache – Sprachgrenzen: Eine Replik auf die Besprechungen. In: ACME 4, 2, 262-269.
- 2006 Schlottmann, A.: Limited Language/Linguistic Limitations: A Reply to the Reviews. In: ACME 4, 2, 270-276.
- 2005 Felgenhauer, T., Mihm, M. & A. Schlottmann: The making of „Mitteldeutschland“. On the function of implicit and explicit symbolic features for implementing regions and regional identity. In: Geografiska Annaler 87B, 1, 45-60.
- 2005 Schlottmann, A.: 2-Raum-Deutschland. Alltägliche Grenzziehung im vereinten Deutschland – oder: warum der Kanzler in den Osten fuhr. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 79, 2/3, 179-192.
- 2005 Schlottmann, A. & H. Gertel: Editorial: Building a bridge between scientific traditions. In: Social Geography 1, 1-2.
- 2003 Schlottmann, A.: Zur Verortung von Kultur in kommunikativer Praxis – Beispiel „Ostdeutschland“. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 91, 1, 40-51.
- 2003 Felgenhauer, T., Mihm, M. & A. Schlottmann: Langage, média et régionalisation symbolique: la fabrication de la Mitteldeutschland. In: Géographie et cultures 47, 85-102.
- 2002 Schlottmann, A.: Globale Welt – Deutsches Land. Alltägliche globale und nationale Weltdeutungen in den Medien. In: Praxis Geographie 32, 4, 28-34.
Book contributions
in print:
- 2023 Schlottmann, A.: Geographie als Weltbeziehungsbildung: Die Bedeutung von Respekt, Reflexivität und Resonanz. In: Pettig, F. & I. Gryl (Eds.): Geographische Bildung in digitalen Kulturen. Perspektiven für Forschung und Lehre. Springer.
- 2023 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink: Cultural Geographies of the visual. In: Ashutosh, I. & Winders, J. (Eds.): The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography. Wiley-Blackwell.
published:
- 2023 Schlottmann, A. & H. Rosa: Resonanzpädagogik. In: Nöthen, E. & V. Schreiber (Eds.): Transformative Geographische Bildung. Schlüsselprobleme, Theoriezugänge, Forschungsweisen, Vermittlungspraktiken. Heidelberg/Berlin: Springer Spektrum, pp. 163-170. https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515132305-008
- 2021 Schlottmann, A.: Geographie als Postwachstumswissenschaft: Gemeinschaftliches Gärtnern in den Feldern der Erkenntnis? In: Dickel, M. & J. Böhmer (Eds.): Die Verantwortung der Geographie. Orientierung für eine reflexive Forschung. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 35-51.
- 2021 Schlottmann, A. & J. Wintzer: Die Herstellung von Geographien in Sprache und Bild. In: Schneider-Sliwa, R., Braun, B., Helbrecht, I. & R. Wehrhahn (Eds.): Humangeographie. Braunschweig: Westermann, pp. 310-319.
- 2021 Schlottmann, A.: Paradigmenpluralität leben. (Notwendige) Herausforderungen und (zu nutzende) Chancen. In: Wintzer, J., Mossig, I. & A. Hof (Eds.): Prinzipien, Strukturen, Praktiken geographischer Hochschullehre. Bern: Haupt, pp. 89-104. https://doi.org/10.36198/9783838556680
- 2021 Pütz, R.& A. Schlottmann: Umkämpfte Nachhaltigkeit – vergessene Leiblichkeit. Der Fall der Wildpferde in Namibia. In: Blättel-Mink, B., Hickler, T., Küster, S. & H. Becker (Eds.): Nachhaltige Entwicklung in einer Gesellschaft des Umbruchs. Berlin: Springer VS, pp. 65-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31466-8_5
- 2021 Miggelbrink, J. & A. Schlottmann: Bildlichkeit. In: Glasze, G. & A. Mattissek (Eds.): Handbuch Diskurs und Raum: Theorien und Methoden für die Humangeographie sowie die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Raumforschung (3. überarbeitete und erweiterte Ausgabe). Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 223-248. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839432181-014
- 2019 Schlottmann, A.: Wildnis. In: Hasse, J. & V. Schreiber (Eds.): Räume der Kindheit. Ein Glossar. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 378-384.
- 2019 Schlottmann, A.: „So fern und doch so nah“. Von Horizonten und Horizonterweiterungen im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch. In: Frischmann, B. & C. Holtorf (Eds.): Über den Horizont. Standorte, Grenzen und Perspektiven. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 57-76. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110553291-005
- 2017 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: Intertwined Spatialities: Discursive Construction(s) of Central Germany. In: Riding, J. & M. Jones (Eds.): Reanimating Regions. Cultures, Politics, Performance. London: Routledge, pp. 159-177.
- 2016 Schlottmann, A.: Visuality. In: Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M. F., Kobayashi, A., Liu, W. & R. A. Marston (Eds.): The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley, pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0056
- 2015 Miggelbrink, J. & A. Schlottmann: Wirkung und Wirkungsweise von Images. In: Gans, P. & I. Hemmer (Eds.): Zum Image der Geographie in Deutschland. Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie. Leipzig: Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, pp. 11-16.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. (Wie) Ist Systemkompetenz möglich? Humangeographische, erkenntnistheoretische und pragmatische Perspektiven für eine integrative geographische Bildung. In: Gryl, I., Schlottmann, A. & D. Kanwischer (Eds.): Mensch:Umwelt:System – Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele für den Geographieunterricht. Münster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 99-130.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink: Ausgangspunkte: Das Visuelle in der Geographie und ihrer Vermittlung. In: Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink (Eds.): Visuelle Geographien. Produktion, Aneignung und Praxis der Vermittlung von RaumBildern. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 13-25.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. & C. Wucherpfennig: Wirklichkeit und Wirkungsweisen von Bildern erforschen. In: Kuckuck, M. & A. Budke (Eds.): Geographiedidaktische Forschungsmethoden. Münster, pp. 136-164.
- 2015 Kanwischer, D. & A. Schlottmann: Länderkunde neu entdeckt. In: Gryl, I., Schlottmann, A. & D. Kanwischer (Eds.): Mensch:Umwelt:System – Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele für den Geographieunterricht. Münster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 217-234.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. Kanwischer, D. & I. Gryl: Mensch:Umwelt:System – Ein geographiedidaktisches Basiskonzept als Desiderat. In: Gryl, I., Schlottmann, A. & D. Kanwischer (Eds.): Mensch:Umwelt:System – Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele für den Geographieunterricht. Münster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 11-22.
- 2013 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: The Central German Metropolitan Region - Multiple Spatial Dimensions of Politico-Economic Discourses. In: Carl, D. & L. Reynolds (Eds.): Mobilizing Regions: Territorial Strategies for Growth. London: Regional Studies Association, pp. 13-16.
- 2013 Nöthen, E. & A. Schlottmann: Bild. In: Böhn, D. & G. Obermaier (Eds.): Wörterbuch der Geographiedidaktik. Begriffe von A bis Z. Braunschweig: Westermann, pp. 29-30.
- 2013 Schlottmann, A. & E. Nöthen: Weltbild, geographisches. In: Böhn, D. & G. Obermaier (Eds.): Wörterbuch der Geographiedidaktik. Begriffe von A bis Z. Braunschweig: Westermann, pp. 293-294.
- 2013 Schlottmann, A.: Regionale Identitätsbildung – Bildung zur regionalen Identität. Eine Analyse der Konstruktion von Natur und Mensch im Schulbuch. In: Brand, O., Dörhöfer, S. & P. Eser (Eds.): Die konflikthafte Konstitution der Region: Kultur, Politik, Ökonomie. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 162-185.
- 2013 Schlottmann, A.: Sprache, Staat und Raum. Zur (Neu-)Erfindung von Nation aus sprachpragmatischer Perspektive. In: Belina, B. (Eds.): Staat und Raum. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, pp. 59-76.
- 2013 Schlottmann, A.: Prosumieren im web 2.0: Das Ende des kritischen Konstruktivismus oder seine letzte Instanz? In: Gryl, I., Nehrdich, T. & R. Vogler (Eds.): geo@web. Medium, Räumlichkeit und geographische Bildung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 93-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18699-3
- 2012 Schlottmann, A.: Reden vom Raum, der ist. Zur alltäglichen Notwendigkeit der Ontologisierung räumlicher Sachverhalte. In: John, R., Rückert-John, J. und E. Esposito (Eds.): Ontologien der Moderne. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-94128-8
- 2012 Schlottmann, A.: Outdoor. In: Marquardt, N. & V. Schreiber (Eds.): Ortsregister. Ein Glossar zu Räumen der Gegenwart. Bielefeld: transcript, 211-216.
- 2010 Schlottmann, A.: Erlebnisräume/Raumerlebnisse: Zur Konstruktion des "Draußen" in Bildern der Werbung. In Wöhler, K., Pott, A. & V. Denzer (Eds.): Tourismusräume. Zur soziokulturellen Konstruktion eines globalen Phänomens. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 67-88.
- 2009 Miggelbrink, J. & Schlottmann, A.: Diskurstheoretisch orientierte Analyse von Bildern. In Glasze, G. & A. Mattissek (Eds.): Handbuch Diskurs und Raum. Theorien und Methoden für die Humangeographie sowie die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Raumforschung. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 181-198. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839432181
- 2009 Schlottmann, A.: „Endlich Platz!“: Zur Konstitution von Raumerlebnissen in der Werbung. In: Döring, J. (Eds.): Geo-Visiotype. Zur Werbegeschichte der Telekommunikation. Siegen: Universitätsverlag, pp. 35-70.
- 2008 Schlottmann, A.: Raum, Sprache, Stadt und Land. In: Jöchner, C. (Eds.): Räume der Stadt. Von der Antike bis heute. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, pp. 181-195.
- 2008 Felgenhauer, T., Mihm, M. & A. Schlottmann: The making of „Mitteldeutschland“. On the function of implicit and explicit symbolic features for implementing regions and regional identity. In: Geografiska Annaler 87B, 1, 45-60. Nachdruck in: Entrikin, N. (Eds.): Regions. Critical Essays in Human Geography. London: Ashgate, pp. 415-430. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315244891
- 2007 Schlottmann, A.: Handlungszentrierte Entwicklungsforschung. Das Instrument der Schnittstellenanalyse am Beispiel eines Agroforstprojekts in Tanzania. In: Werlen, B. (Eds.): Sozialgeographie alltäglicher Regionalisierungen. Band 3: Ausgangspunkte und Befunde empirischer Forschung. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 69-108.
- 2007 Schlottmann, A., M. Mihm, T. Felgenhauer, S. Lenk & M. Schmidt: „Wir sind Mitteldeutschland!“. Bedeutung territorialer Bezugseinheiten unter raum-zeitlich entankerten Bedingungen. In: Werlen, B. (Eds.) Sozialgeographie alltäglicher Regionalisierungen. Band 3: Ausgangspunkte und Befunde empirischer Forschung, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 297-336.
- 2007 Schlottmann, A.: Foreword. In: Russel, H. (Eds.): Countries of the world: Germany. Washington: National Geographic Society Washington, pp. 4-5.
- 2006 Schlottmann, A.: Freiheit der Berge? – Eine Erkundung von Regeln und Normen im Naturraum. In: Dickel, M. & Kanwischer, D. (Eds.): Tatorte. Neue Raumkonzepte didaktisch inszeniert. Münster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 155-172.
- 2005 Schlottmann, A.: Zur Bedeutung von Kultur-Raum-Containern in der globalisierten Welt – Perspektiven einer Geographie der Differenz am Beispiel „Ostdeutschland“. In: Weingarten, M. (Eds.): Strukturierung von Raum und Landschaft. Konzepte in Ökologie und der Theorie gesellschaftlicher Naturverhältnisse. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 291-313.
- 2005 Schlottmann, A.: Rekonstruktion von alltäglichen Raumkonstruktionen – eine Schnittstelle von Sozialgeographie und Geschichtswissenschaft? In: Geppert, A. T., U. Jensen & J. Weinhold (Eds.): Ortsgespräche. Raum und Kommunikation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 107-136.
- 2005 Doevenspeck, M., Houben, P., Lindner, P. & A. Schlottmann: Bericht über das 5. Rundgespräch der DFG-Geokommission zur „Zukunft der Geowissenschaften“, 23.-24. Februar 2005 in Heidelberg. In: Rundbrief Geographie, 193, 3.
- 2001 Schlottmann, A.: Urbane Schnittstellen – öffentlicher Raum als Treffpunkt von Sozialgeographie und Stadtplanung. In: Kögel, E. (Eds.): Dialoge über den öffentlichen Raum in der Volksrepublik China und Deutschland. Symposium in Shenzen vom März 2000, pp. 109‑116.
- 1998 Schlottmann, A.: Der Besiedlungsgang im südlichen Oberrheintiefland und Südschwarzwald. In: Mäckel, R. & Friedmann, A. (Eds.): Wandel der Geo-Biosphäre in den letzten 15.000 Jahren im südlichen Oberrheintiefland und Schwarzwald. Freiburg i. Br.: Selbstverlag der Universität Freiburg, pp. 73-86.
- 1998 Mäckel, R., Friedmann, A. & A. Schlottmann (1998): Die 14C-Daten der seit 1986 am Institut für Physische Geographie der Universität Freiburg laufenden DFG-Forschungsprojekte im Oberrheintiefland und Schwarzwald. In: Mäckel, R. & Friedmann, A. (Eds.): Wandel der Geo-Biosphäre in den letzten 15.000 Jahren im südlichen Oberrheintiefland und Schwarzwald. Freiburg i. Br.: Selbstverlag der Universität Freiburg, pp. 191-201.
Other contributions
- 2019 Pütz, R. & A. Schlottmann: Welche Natur, für wen und wie zu schützen? Namibias Wildpferde im Fokus von Naturschutzkonflikten. In: Forschung Frankfurt 1, 98-103.
- 2017 Schlottmann, A.: Bild – Macht –Raum! In: Forschung Frankfurt 2, 20-24.
- 2009 Schlottmann, A. & A. Mösgen: Ein Stadtteil im Wandel: Quartiersforschung im Ostend. In: Forschung Frankfurt 3, 14-16.
Culture Dialogues
Concept
The basic idea of this project is to combine future teachers' scholarly education with practical experience in school environments (“Integrated geographical education"). Within the project “CultureDialogues" this idea was transferred to an international scale and to the field of bilingual teaching. One major purpose was to enhance both the intercultural competences of the involved pupils and the professional skills of the students. On a field trip to Southern Sweden the students were not only offered to delve into the Swedish educational system by means of observation and expert interviews, but also enabled to gather teaching experience at a Swedish grammar school (grade 5/6). In order to establish intercultural dialogue not only between pupils, students and teachers but even “at eye level", a Swedish and a German school and two particular classes have been cross-linked in the run-up to the excursion.Progress
In August 2012 a workshop was conducted with the German pupils. The students prepared the children for the first contact with the Swedish class and together they composed posters presenting the school environment and staff.
After having concerned themselves with the Swedish educational system theoretically during the summer term, a group of German students finally visited the Swedish class on Öland in September 2012. In a first lecture they compiled mental conceptions and discussed prevailing images of Germany. The posters made by the German pupils were presented.
Against the hypotheses of diverging relations to nature in Swedish and German cultural backgrounds, the second day was spent with research into the pupils' mental images of nature. On group tried to figure out the boundary between nature and the non-natural by making a transect through the environment on which the pupils should name and map what they assigned to the categories. A second group explored the children's ideas of a forest.
Finally, and as a highlight, a videoconference between the Swedish and the German pupils was taking place via Skype. While this virtual meeting, the pupils briskly discussed a large number of prepared questions.
In May 2013 Prof. Antje Schlottmann and Miriam Pottgießer (graduate student in geography education) went to Öland in order to organise another videoconference, but encountered massive technical problems. Instead, the pupils produced posters of their school and its environment. Their presentations were video recorded; the film was shown to the German pupils after returning to Germany.
Additionally, within the scope of her examination paper, Miriam Pottgießer conducted a set of interviews with both the German and the Swedish participants of the project (pupils, teachers, head of school).
The exchange programme is planned to be continued in 2014 and 2015.
Results
The efforts towards an integration of school and university as well as of theory and practice have resulted in the empirical research project “CultureDialogues".
One main purpose is to analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of an international school cooperation with regard to the acquisition and development of intercultural competences. Secondly, we want to find out whether, and to what extent, new media application such as videoconferencing proves to be of value in everyday school practice.
Miriam Pottgießer finished her thesis “Studying geography without borders?! Potentials and problems of intercultural education based on media using the example of an international learning and teaching project (Gymnasium Riedberg, Germany, and Torslunda Skola, Sweden) by the end of 2013.
An abstract of her paper will appear in the near future.
Winter semester 2020/2021
- Seminar ,,Natur/Gesellschaft/Bildung 1/2: Klimawandel" (Modul: Integrative Geographie),in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Petra Döll, Dienstags 12 - 16h, GW 2.101
- Seminar ,,Stadt als Lebensraum - Schule als Resonanzraum" (Modul: Räumliche Sozialisation und Schule, Lehramt) in Zusammenarbeit mit Nina Schiegl, Donnerstags 10 - 12h, Raum folgt
Winter semester 2019/20
- Seminar „Stadt als Lebensraum - thursdays for future" (Modul: Räumliche Sozialisation und Schule, Lehramt)in Zusammenarbeit mit Eva Nöthen, Donnerstags 10 - 12h, SP 0.03
Summer semester 2019
- Blockseminar „Stadt als Lebensraum - Räumliche Sozialisation zwischen Naturentfremdung und außerschulischer Bildung"
- Seminar Projektseminar "Quartiersanalyse: Urbanes Grün - Räumliche Sozialisation zwischen Naturentfremdung und außerschulischer Bildung" (Modul: Räumliche Sozialisation und Bildung), in Kooperation mit dem Adorno Gymnasium
Summer semester 2018
- Seminar Projektseminar Quartiersanalyse: Urbanes Grün - städtische Natur als Sozialisationsraum und Bildungsort; (Modul: Räumliche Sozialisation und Bildung)
- Projektseminar "Urban Wildlife: Mensch-Tier-Netzwerke im urbanen Kontext" (Modul: [HG2] Lehrforschungsprojekt Wirtschaft und Stadt, Master),in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Robert Pütz, Dienstags 9.30 -12 Uhr
Winter semester 2017/2018
- Seminar Umwelterziehung plus: Klimawandel (Modul: Umwelterziehung - Natur/Gesellschaft oder Geographie der Differenzen, Lehramt), in Zusammenarbeit mit Petra Döll, dienstags 12-16 Uhr
- Seminar „Stadt als Lebensraum - Leben in Frankfurt-Frankfurt erleben. Frankfurter Quartiere aus der Innensicht; (Modul: Politik und Steuerung – Geographische Stadtforschung, Lehramt), donnerstags 10-12 Uhr
- Projektseminar "Urban Wildlife: Mensch-Tier-Netzwerke im urbanen Kontext" (Modul: [HG2] Lehrforschungsprojekt Wirtschaft und Stadt, Master), in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Robert Pütz, Dienstags 9.30 -12 Uhr
Winter semester 2016/2017
- Seminar Umwelterziehung plus: Klimawandel (Modul: Umwelterziehung - Natur/Gesellschaft oder Geographie der Differenzen, Lehramt), in Zusammenarbeit mit Petra Döll, dienstags 12-16 Uhr
- Seminar „Stadt als Lebensraum - Leben in Frankfurt-Frankfurt erleben. Frankfurter Quartiere aus der Innensicht; (Modul: Politik und Steuerung – Geographische Stadtforschung, Lehramt)
Christoph Geissler
Pedagogical staff
Robert Lämmchen
Research associate
Marketa Mohn
Sekretary
E-Mail
Nina Schiegl
PhD student
Dr. Birte Schröder
Research associate
Research Fields:
Nature – Society – Visuality and New Regional Geography
In both of my major research fields I seek to integrate scholarly spatial theories and educational questions concerning the communication and transfer of space-related knowledge. This focus originates from my previous work on processes of everyday regionalization and the constitution of space in everyday language use.
My research focus on relations of society and nature is strongly connected with the broader research area Nature – Society – Visuality. In a praxeological perspective I am concerned with the visual constitution of (nature-) space and places, its social conditions and implications. Against this background I elaborate didactical concepts for critical-reflexive visual competences.
Within the scope of the field “New Regional Geography / Concepts of space in educational practice" together with Roger Baars I study the everyday linguistic and discursive reality of regions and their borders in political practices (DFG-project on spatial concepts in political discourse: the case of Central Germany).
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Research Projects
Contested wildlife – neglected corporeality: The case of the Namib wild horses (with Robert Pütz, Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Living in Common worlds comprises a permanent struggle of advantaged and disadvantaged actors. Paradoxically, this holds even more, when it comes to objectives of conservation. Their application continuously produces borders between a nature worth conserving and a rather dispensable nature and its parts and members. Territories such as conservation areas confine a spatial fixation of such determinations of nature. However, borders, territories as well as related concepts of nature and wilderness are permanently struggled upon.
Against this background, the case of the wild horses in the Namib-Naukluft National Park in southern Namibia serves as an instructive example. Their struggle for life due to persistent drought and evermore pressure of predatory hyenas is for the Park management the common course of life and death, while representatives of local NGOs and touristic entrepreneurs empathetically claim for human action in order to save the horses from extinction.
We take this case in order to disentangle a conflict that comes with different agendas of what nature is about and what is worth conservation. Moreover, we analyse the postcolonial discourse, which in the case of Namibia this conflict is steeped with. Secondly, we show that actors in the field incorporate conservation as a praxis of bordering nature. Their embodiment of social norms and ethical values, however, leads to inner struggles and frictions with their affective experiences in the course of working with the horses and “caring” for them, sometimes in situations that crave a decision for life or death. We argue that neither established approaches of discourse analysis nor the newer assemblage perspectives sufficiently grasp this circumstance, and we suggest the phenomenological concept of intercorporeality as a promising perspective for understanding Human-animal relations in conservation practice.
The commercialization of wildlife encounter: selling nature to save it? Nature conservation as a market in Namibia (with Olivier Graefe, University of Fribourg)
It is estimated that 80 % of the wildlife in Namibia is now in possession of private game farmers and private parks. Here is good news: The number of elephants tripled since independence in 1990 and Namibia has by now the biggest national population of Black Rhinos while the species was near extinction in the 1980’s. Hence, the devolution of rights over wildlife to private land owners and custodians since the mid-1960 is unmistakably a success in terms of wildlife conservation and growth of animal population. So, what’s biting? At the same time, wildlife conservation has turned into a source of profit and nowadays attracts many actors like private entrepreneurs, companies but also nature conservation NGOs. Competition is fierce. The trade for animals developed immensely not only in form of auctions and sells by catalogue for hunting concessions, trophies and life animals for breeding, but also for touristic wildlife encounter of different kinds in private game reserves. In short, there is a new complexity of commercialization of wildlife going on with yet unidentified implications for humans, nature, and their relationships.
While the political economy of lively commodities, especially price fluctuations of different species are worth own research, our purpose is to understand the potential as well as occurring implications of the commercialization of wildlife from a political-ecological and socionature perspective. Therefore, as a complement to use and exchange value, we employ the concept of encounter value introduced by Donna Haraway (2008) and further developed by Maan Barua (2016).
The Outdoors: Spaces of nature/culture and the body in the advertisement of a growing industry
Theoretical framing
The outdoors is not a given, waiting for being represented. It is made real, presented and enacted in various fields of communicative practice.
Depending on the angle of reflection the outdoors may then appear as a growing industry of so called outdoor products (rising number of outdoor trade fairs, spread of companies that sell outdoor wear / gear). This industry advertises in a growing number of journals dedicated to outdoor pursuits (tgo, trail, ute, outdoor), and obviously there is a broad readership that can be addressed with outdoor issues. According to common language use, the outdoors can also be understood as a space that can be entered (and left). As such, it appears as a destination for a growing number of people doing so called outdoor sports such as hiking, trekking, canyoning. Children are sent to the outdoors for educational reasons.
On the other hand, the outdoors seems to be something that can be experienced. According to habitual language use people cannot only travel to the outdoors, but also enjoy it or explore it. The outdoors is – at least to some extent - constituted by the practice of experiencing and feeling “outdoors". In this respect, the outdoors may appear as a synonym for nature: The “Profilstudie Wandern" 2005 of the German Institute for Hiking (Marburg) shows that “enjoying nature" is a growing motivation for people relocating their leisure activities to the outdoors (Profilstudie Wandern 05/06: http://www.wanderforschung.de/files/prostu060-korrektur1251264511.pdf). This report also shows a trend towards solitude hiking (i.e. no longer understanding hiking as a group experience, an idea that was formative for the Wandervogel movement in the late 19th century or the rise of organised tours as members of Alpine Clubs etc.). Theoretically, the phenomenon is hence connected to an increasing individualistic body-centred culture – in response to a life-style more and more steeped in technology and artificial surroundings (Bette 2001). This stresses not only the important force of a visual consumption of the environment (Urry 2002, Urry and Larsen 2011), but also of consuming natural space with the whole body.
This tentative approach to what is called the outdoors reveals various dimensions of my research subject (rather than conclusively explaining its nature):
- the outdoors is a complex social construction, a relative and contingent, yet stabilized concept that is somehow interlinked with other concepts such as space, nature (and its opposite, say culture), and the body
- this communicative interplay involves the dimension of meaning as well as the dimension of experience, theoretically spoken: the construction of the outdoor has a semiotic and a phenomenological side, a representational and a presentational level.
Though these two realms might seem to be disjoint, I adopt the theoretic assumption that they are dialectically intertwined. Even experiences of what is called the outdoors are not pure or innocent or in a way antecedent and hence more real. Rather, like the realm of meaning, they are discursively informed. Taking this as a starting point for a heuristic approach, the question I am concerned with is:
What does the everyday making of “the outdoors" as both a representation and a presentation reveal about contemporary understandings of nature and culture and their respective “spaces"? And how is a contemporary concept of the body involved in this process?
Put as a working hypothesis: (Re-)Presentations of the outdoor are a key for observing the contemporary discursive interplay of ideas of nature, culture and the body.
Methodology
Visual images, I suggest, are of vital importance in order to grasp both the semiotic and the experiential dimension of the discursive construction, because they can be theorized as mediator of signification and sensation
As Sachs-Hombach (2001) (following the French Philosopher Merleau-Ponty) put it, visual images are “perceptional signs", they dwell in an ontological interspace. That means, visual images do not simply reproduce and frame an external world of objects. Nor should they be understood as pure subjective constructions, or rather, as genuine products of the mind. They are rather “in betweens" since they have both a representational reproductive and a presentational productive character. On the one hand, according to Watzlawick, visual images provide an “analogous" form of communication (see Watzlawick et al. 1971, 61ff.). 'Analogous' here means, that material images do not present their message by contingent naming (that follows a linear grammar), but by similarity relations. On the other hand, as phenomenologists such as Waldenfels point out, this similarity is neither barely representative nor “innocent". Speaking from a critical realistic stance, visualization is not as contingent as naming, yet analogous images (especially computer generated images) are always culturally informed. Additionally, visual images are intertwined with the performative act of perceiving. And this act of perceiving, in turn, is discursively informed as well. There is no such thing like the innocent eye. Perceiving in this perspective is the performance of codes that have been learned through social institutions.
The visual images hence can be seen as powerful agents in the re-production of concepts such as space, nature and the body on the one hand. On the other hand, visual images can be conceptualized as powerful agents in the discursive structuration of sensations of space, nature and the lived body (Leib), in Foucauldian terms: visual images bear “somatic power". The value of a conceptual difference between the body (Körper) and the lived body (Leib) gets obvious in this regard. Though these concepts describe different analytical levels, some theorists claim convincingly, that the lived body is also discursively formed, in Foucault's terms, that it is an object of genealogy. Hence the idea of first-order experience must be questioned, or rather reflected and historized: what is the cultural origin of absolute feelings we have? And why do we take them naturally for granted?
One approach in this direction is to understand that images bear truth claims about the objects they visualize. They bear a mimetic implicitness, a character of evidence, and they imply illocutionary acts such as “the presented object looks like the object represented!" or “the presented place (there) looks like this!"). According to speech-act theory these can be understood as “visual assertive statements". Associated sensations thus easily lose their subjective character and appear to be mere responses to inherent features of visualized environments. The romantic gaze (Urry 1990), for instance, is not experienced as contingent and culturally informed gaze. Instead, the landscape gazed at is experienced as if it was romantic by nature. Hence, images – and seeing or gazing respectively - are powerful agents in the process of naturalizing affective relations to objects or the environment
In sociological theory of embodiment or “incorporation", this naturalizing effect is seen as an important stance of validating organizational and complexity reducing structures of the social (Jäger 2004), for example the understanding of the world in terms of binaries such as nature and culture.
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Findings
From the outlined theoretical/methodical perspective I have traced the continuous performance of the nature/culture dualism (as a social construction) and the respective incorporation of the body in the ads of the outdoor industry.
This dualism is clearly manifest in the propositions of many visual images and their captions. The outdoors as a natural space is typically depicted as the non-human, the non-technical or non-artificial. The images provide the idea of a pure and exclusive nature and they evoke - via kinaesthetic effects - purified nature feelings. Furthermore, these images rely on topoi such as escaping from artificial surroundings and “going nature". The outdoors thus appears as a late-modern arcadia where members of an urbanised and technology-based society can regain freedom and self-affirmation.
Surely, this construction of a quiet zone where you can recover from an over-directed working life obscures the fact that it is precisely the satisfaction of this need which reproduces the functionality for this working life.
Likewise, the idea of regaining freedom obscures the fact that the proposed dress code for the outdoors can also be seen as a disciplinary action of the outdoor industry. The outdoor body as constructed by the images is not only fit and well trained but uniformly dressed in hi-end functional wear.
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References
- Bette, Karl-Heinz (2001): »Körper, Sport und Individualisierung«. In: G. von Randow (Hg.), Wieviel Körper braucht der Mensch? Standpunkte zur Debatte für den deutschen Studienpreis. Hamburg, S. 89-100.
- Jäger, Ulle (2004): Der Körper, der Leib und die Soziologie. Entwurf einer Theorie der Inkorporierung, Königstein/Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag.
- Plessner, Helmut (1982): »Der Mensch als Lebewesen«. In: Helmut Plessner (Hg.), Mit anderen Augen. Aspekte einer philosophischen Anthropologie, Stuttgart: Reclam, S. 9-62.
- Sachs-Hombach, Klaus (2001): »Bild und Prädikation« In: Klaus Sachs-Hombach (Hg.), Bildhandeln: interdisziplinäre Forschungen zur Pragmatik bildhafter Darstellungsformen, Bildwissenschaft Band 3, Magdeburg: Scriptum-Verlag, S. 55-76.
- Searle, John R. (1982): Ausdruck und Bedeutung. Untersuchungen zur Sprechakttheorie, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp.
- Urry, John (22002): The Tourist Gaze, London: Sage.
- Urry, John & Jonas Larsen (2011): Tourist Gaze 3.0. London: Sage.
- Watzlawick, Paul/Beavin, Janet H./Jackson, Don D. (1971): Menschliche Kommunikation. Stuttgart: Verlag Hans Huber.
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Publications
- 2012 Schlottmann, A.: Outdoor. In: Marquardt, N. & V. Schreiber (Hg.): Ortsregister. Ein Glossar zu Räumen der Gegenwart. Bielefeld: transcript, 211-216.
- 2010 Schlottmann, A. : Erlebnisräume / Raumerlebnisse: Zur Konstruktion des "Draußen" in Bildern der Werbung. In: Wöhler, K.-H.; Denzer, V. & Pott, A.: Tourismusräume. Zur soziokulturellen Konstruktion eines globalen Phänomens. Bielefeld: transcript, 67-88.
- 2009 Schlottmann, A.: „Endlich Platz!“: Zur Konstitution von Raumerlebnissen in der Werbung. In: Döring, J. (Hg.): Geo-Visiotype. Zur Werbegeschichte der Telekommunikation. MUK 170/171 Massenmedien und Kommunikation. Siegen: universi, 35-70.
- 2009 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink: Visuelle Geographien – ein Editorial. In: Social Geography 4, 13-24. (Special Issues - an editorial)
- 2009 Miggelbrink, J. & Schlottmann, A.: Diskurstheoretisch orientierte Analyse von Bildern. In: Glasze, G. & A. Mattissek (Hg.): Handbuch Diskurs und Raum. Theorien und Methoden für die Humangeographie sowie die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Raumforschung. Bielefeld: transcript, 181-198.
- 2006 Schlottmann, A.: Outdoor-Boom und geregeltes Draußen – Anleitungen zum Aufenthalt in der freien Natur. In: Praxis Geographie, 36, 4, 14-17.
Images of nature from a childrens’ perspective. A comparative case study between Germany and Sweden.
Concept and Aims
The Project aims to gain and deepen insight into the ideas and concepts of nature and nature spaces, which children at an age of around 12 years have formed and which they adopt to make sense of the world and their environment.Against the background of theories of significative appropriation of space (Werlen 1993) as well as iconographic and phenomenological approaches to the perception of material surroundings (Sachs-Hombach 2001), we aim to figure out to what extend children have aquired ideas about the nature/ Culture divide and enclosed landscape entities such as forests, woodlands or urban areas.Additionally, we are interested in the perception of cultural heritage such as the Stora Alvaret on Öland in Sweden and the Biosphärenreservat Rhön in Germany, for instance. What differences can be analysed in comparing children with an urban and rather nature-distant educational background (Frankfurt), and children with a rural and rather close to nature educational background (Torslunda)? Are there any differences?This research is strongly related to recent discussions around Actor Network and non-representational approaches (Whatmore 2002, Thrift 2007) and a possible overcoming of traditional dualistic thinking: What can we learn from children as regards perceiving the environment as “heterogenous associations"? At what age and under what conditions could a non-dualistic education in school curricula be effective? What would be the implications for present scholarly worldviews?
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Methodology
Analytical frameworks combining semiotic and phenomenological approaches (Renggli) by using quantitative and qualitative methods such as mental mapping, reflexive photography, group discussion, hermeneutics.
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Project members
Torslunda Skola (Torslunda), Station Linné (Skogsby), Linné Universitetet (Kalmar), Gymnasium Riedberg (Frankfurt am Main) and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main).
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References
- Sachs-Hombach, Klaus (ed.) (2001): Bildhandeln: interdisziplinäre Forschungen zur Pragmatik bildhafter Darstellungsformen, Bildwissenschaft Band 3, Magdeburg.
- Thrift, N. (2007): Non-Representational Theory. London.
- Werlen, B. (1993): Society, action and space. London.
- Whatmore, S. (2002): Hybrid geographies: natures cultures spaces. London.
Multiple Spatial Dimensions in Political Discourses – Inducing the Metropolitan Region of Central Germany
Theoretical Framing
In their inspiring paper on socio-spatial theory Jessop, Brenner and Jones (2008) identified four distinct spatial lexicons that have been developed by social scientists over the last thirty years: territory, place, scale, and network (Dicken, Kelly, Olds & Yeung, 2001; Paasi, 2004; Sheppard, 2002). These lexicons are associated with specific spatial turns and, although they problematize different issues, they should actually be seen as closely intertwined theoretically and empirically (Leitner, Sheppard & Sziarto, 2008).
However, advocates of a given turn are often tempted to focus on one dimension of spatial relations, neglecting the role of other forms of socio-spatial organisation (Leitner et al., 2008). Such one-dimensionalism falls into the trap of conflating one part (territory, place, scale, or networks) with the whole (the totality of socio-spatial organisation). In contrast, Jessop et al. (2008) argue for all four dimensions to be put into play, albeit not necessarily all at once.
Elsewhere, Terlouw and Weststrate (2013) argue for an overdue shift of attention from the historical evolution of current regions to the circumstances in the present in which regions are actually constructed. The starting point, then, is not the social construction of a specific region, but the motives behind the use of regions by local stakeholders in different situations to promote their interests. In other words, regions as socio-spatial relations (regions-in-becoming) are conceptualised as publics-in-stabilisation (Metzger, 2013).
Yet, Terlouw and Weststrate's (2013) one-sided focus on 'scale' must be seen as problematic leading to the sidelining of other spatialities in favour of scale as primus inter pares (Casey, 2008), first among equals, thereby contradicting this project's emphasis on the important interplay between different spatial dimensions (Jessop et al., 2008).
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Aims and Objectives
Drawing on earlier studies (Felgenhauer, et al., 2005; Schlottmann et al., 2007; Schlottmann, 2008) on spatial semantics of Central Germany (Mitteldeutschland), this project aims to achieve the following two main objectives. First, the project explores the role and motives of political stakeholders inducing multiple spatialities of the metropolitan region Central Germany – a loose political alliance comprising the three German federal states Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. Second, the multi-dimensionality of spatial organisation is emphasised in this research analysing interdependencies between different spatial lexicons of scale, territory, and networks in the context of the metropolitan region.
The general and comparative questions therefore become:
- Why and how do political stakeholders utilise regional spatialities to promote their specific interests?
- Which spatial references are drawn upon and how do different lines of argumentation fluctuate in multiple contexts?
The spatial strategies of political stakeholders never focus on only one spatiality, but on a patchwork of related territories, scales, and networks. Instead of tracing the evolution of patterns of regional formation, as reflected in a single spatiality over time, the aim of this project is to contribute to current debates in regional and political geography by comparing intentions of local stakeholders shifting their support for a region, conceptualised as various partially overlapping spatialities, in order to secure/promote their interests to accommodate changing circumstances.
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Methodology
This research is conceptualised as a qualitative micro-analytical study focusing on official documents and expert interviews as resources. A multitude of analytical methods will be deployed in this venture including discourse (Dittmer, 2010), metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 2011), and argumentation analysis (Toulmin, 2003).
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Project Members
This is a conjoint research project conducted by Prof Antje Schlottmann and Roger Baars; funded since 2013 by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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Presentations
“Regional Governance and the 'Phantom Region' Mitteldeutschland: The Political Dimension of Spatial Concepts". Paper presented at 'Phantom Borders in the Political Behaviour and Electoral Geography in East Central Europe' conference. The European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), 14.-15. November 2013.
"Inducing the Metropolitan Region of Central Germany - Multiple Spatial Dimensions of Politico-Economic Discourses." Paper presented at 'Regional Studies Association Winter Conference. Mobilizing Regions: Territorial Strategies for Growth'. Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury, London, UK. 22. November 2013.
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Publications
- 2013 Baars, R., & Schlottmann, A.: The Central German Metropolitan Region - Multiple Spatial Dimensions of Politico-Economic Discourses. Paper presented at the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference. 'Mobilizing Regions: Territorial Strategies for Growth'. London, UK: Regional Studies Association
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References
- 2015 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: Taking Borders Elsewhere – The Political Performance of Phantom Borders in Central Germany? Europa Regional (Special Issue).
- 2015 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: Spatial Multidimensionalities and the politics of regions: The 'Phantom Region' of Central Germany. Erdkunde (Special Issue).
- Casey, E. S. (2008). Questioning "Theorizing Sociospatial Relations". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(3), 402-404.
- Dicken, P., Kelly, P. F., Olds, K., & Yeung, W.-C. H. (2001). Chains and Networks, Territories and Scales: Towards a Relational Framework for Analysing the Global Economy. Global Networks, 1(2), 89-112.
- Dittmer, J. (2010). Textual and Discourse Analysis. In: D. DeLyser, S. Herbert, S. Aitken, M. Crang & L. McDowell (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography (pp. 274-286). Los Angeles, CA: SAGE.
- Felgenhauer, T., Mihm, M., & Schlottmann, A. (2005). The Making of Mitteldeutschland: On the Function of Implicit and Explicit Symbolic Features for Implementing Regions and Regional Identity. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 87(1), 45-60.
- Jessop, B., Brenner, N., & Jones, M. (2008). Theorizing Sociospatial Relations. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(3), 389-401.
- Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (2011). Metaphors We Live By (6th ed.). Chicago, IL: Universitry of Chicago Press.
- Leitner, H., Sheppard, E., & Sziarto, K. M. (2008). The Spatialities of Contentious Politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33(2), 157-172.
- Metzger, J. (2013). Raising the Regional Leviathan: A Relational-Materialist Conceptualization of Regions-in-Becoming as Publics-in-Stabilization. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(4), 1368-1395.
- Paasi, A. (2004). Place and Region: Looking Through the Prism of Scale. Progress in Human Geography, 28(4), 536-546.
- Schlottmann, A., Felgenhauer, T., Mihm, M., Lenk, S., & Schmid, M. (2007). >Wir sind Mitteldeutschland!< Konstitution und Verwendung territorialer Bezugseinheiten unter raum-zeitlich entankerten Bedingungen. In B. Werlen (Ed.), Sozialgeographie alltäglicher Regionalisierungen - Band 3 (pp. 297-). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
- Schlottmann, A. (2008). Closed Spaces: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(5), 823-841.
- Sheppard, E. (2002). The Spaces and Times of Globalization: Place, Scale, Networks, and Positionality. Economic Geography, 78(3), 307-330.
- Terlouw, K., & Weststrate, J. (2013). Regions as Vehicles for Local Interests: The Spatial Strategies of Medieval and Modern Urban Elites in the Netherlands. Journal of Historical Geography, 40, 24-35.
- Toulmin, S. E. (2003). The Uses of Argument. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- 2009/10 Schlottmann, A. & M. Hannah (eds.): Lost in translation? Interkulturelle Forschungs- und Publikationspraktiken in kritischer Betrachtung/A critical engagement with intercultural research and publication practices. (Special Issue in Social Geography)
Books
- 2021 Baade, J., Gertel, H. & A. Schlottmann: Wissenschaftlich Arbeiten – Ein Leitfaden für Studierende der Geographie. UTB 2630. Bern: Haupt (4th revised edition).
- 2019 Schlottmann, A. & J. Wintzer: Weltbildwechsel: Ideengeschichten geographischen Denkens und Handelns. Bern: Haupt.
- 2014 Baade, J., Gertel, H. & A. Schlottmann: Wissenschaftlich Arbeiten – Ein Leitfaden für Studierende der Geographie. Bern: Haupt (3rd revised edition).
- 2005 Schlottmann, A.: RaumSprache – Ost-West-Differenzen in der Berichterstattung zur deutschen Einheit. Eine sozialgeographische Theorie. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.
- 1998 Schlottmann, A.: Entwicklungsprojekte als 'Strategische Räume': Eine akteursorientierte Analyse von sozialen Schnittstellen am Beispiel eines ländlichen Entwicklungsprojektes in Tanzania. Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik.
Editorships
- 2020 Pütz, R. & A. Schlottmann (Eds.): Geographien von Mensch-Tier-Verhältnissen. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 108, 3, 150-152 (Editorial for the theme issue).
- 2017 Jahnke, H., Schlottmann, A. & M. Dickel (Eds.): Räume visualisieren. Geographiedidaktische Forschungen. Münster: Münsterscher Verlag für Wissenschaft.
- 2016 Gryl, I., Schlottmann, A. & D. Kanwischer (Eds.): Mensch:Umwelt:System – Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele für den Geographieunterricht. Berlin: LIT-Verlag.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink (Eds.): Visuelle Geographien. Produktion, Aneignung und Praxis der Vermittlung von RaumBildern. Bielefeld: transcript.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. & P. Reuber (Eds.): Mediale Raumkonstruktionen und ihre Wirkungen. (Special Issue in Geographische Zeitschrift)
- 2014 Turner, J., Hannah, M. & A. Schlottmann (Eds.): Criminality and Carcerality Across Boundaries. (Special Edition Social Geography in Geographica Helvetica)
- 2010 Graefe, O., Korf, B. & A. Schlottmann (Eds.): Natur und Gesellschaft. Neue Theorien in kritischer Sichtung. Theorizing nature and society – a critical review. (Theme issue in Geographische Zeitschrift)
- 2009/10 Schlottmann, A. & M. Hannah (Eds.): Lost in translation? Interkulturelle Forschungs- und Publikationspraktiken in kritischer Betrachtung/A critical engagement with intercultural research and publication practices. (Special issue in Social Geography)
- 2006/09 Miggelbrink, J. & A. Schlottmann (Eds.): Visual Geographies – visuelle Geographien. (Special issue in Social Geography)
Journal articles & peer reviewed papers
submitted:
- Expected 2024 Poerting, J. und Schlottmann, A.: Animals and their visual constitution in social media: Petfluencers, consumer culture and charisma.
published:
- 2023 Schlottmann, A. & O. Graefe: Wild views on sale: commercialization of visual encounters in Namibian wildlife conservation. In: Globalizations, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2252689
- 2023 Sylvester, F., et al. : Better integration of chemical pollution research will further our understanding of biodiversity loss. In: Nat Ecol Evol 7, 1552-1555, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02117-6
- 2023 Nöthen, E. & A. Schlottmann: Stadtgrün: erleben, denken, vermitteln. Exkursionsimpulse für den Frankfurter GrünGürtel. In: GW-Unterricht 171, 3, 18-27, https://doi.org/10.1553/gw-unterricht171s18
- 2021 Nöthen, E., Miggelbrink, J. & A. Schlottmann: Bildanalyse. Wege zur Ausbildung eines kritisch-reflexiven Blicks (nicht nur) im Geographieunterricht am Beispiel „Müll“. In: GW-Unterricht 164, 4, 35-48. https://doi.org/10.1553/gw-unterricht164s35
- 2020 Chihab, L., Herrmann, K., Schlottmann, A. & E. Nöthen: Of Skyscrapers and Windmills: Enhancing Intercultural Learning by Utilizing Four Key Spatial Concepts. In: The Geography Teacher, 17, 1, 13-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/19338341.2019.168041
- 2020 Pütz, R. & A. Schlottmann (Eds.): Geographien von Mensch-Tier-Verhältnissen. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 108, 3, 150-152. (Editorial zum Themenheft).
- 2020 Pütz, R. & A. Schlottmann: Contested Conservation - neglected corporeality. The case of the Namibian Wild Horses. In: Geographica Helvetica 75, 2, 93-106. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-93-2020
- 2020 Poerting, J. & A. Schlottmann: Das Charisma der Petfluencer: Zur Medialisierung konsumtiver Mensch-Tier Beziehungen am Beispiel Instagram. Berichte. In: Geographie und Landeskunde 93, 145-170.
- 2019 Schlottmann, A.: Gegenwärtige Zukünfte. Drei bildungsgeographische Miniaturen im Anschluss an Ute Wardengas GZ Journal Lecture 2019. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 108, 1, 32-38. https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2019-0015
- 2018 Schlottmann, A.: Kritische Geographische Entwicklungsforschung - auch eine Frage der Positionierung! Ein Kommentar zum Beitrag von Theo Rauch. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 106, 3, 205-210. https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2018-0014
- 2017 Kanwischer, D. & A. Schlottmann: Virale Raumkonstruktionen – Soziale Medien und #Mündigkeit im Kontext gesellschaftswissenschaftlicher Medienbildung. In: Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Gesellschaftswissenschaften 8, 2, 60-78.
- 2016 Lühken, A., Braun, T. , Lippert, J., Dierkes, P., Kanwischer, D. & A. Schlottmann: Biotreibstoffe – vom Feld in den Tank? In: MNU-Journal 4, 250-247.
- 2016 Dietz, C., Kuni, V. & A. Schlottmann: Wege ins Stadtgrün. In: MNU-Journal 3, 262-268.
- 2016 Schlottmann, A. & M. Hannah: Fragen des Stils/Questions of Style. In: ACME 15, 1, 81-103.
- 2015 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: Taking borders elsewhere: the political performance of phantom borders in Central Germany. In: Europa Regional 22.2014, 3-4, 90-100.
- 2015 Nöthen, E. & A. Schlottmann: Stadt in den Blick genommen. Ansätze zur Differenzierung beim Erwerb kritisch-reflexiver visueller Kompetenz. In: GW-Unterricht 139, 3, 32-41.
- 2015 Nöthen, E., Schlottmann, A. & D. Kanwischer: BILD MACHT STADT. Eine Unterrichtsanregung zum kritisch-reflexiven Umgang mit alltäglichen Visualisierungen. In: Geographie Heute 324, 26-29.
- 2015 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: Spatial Multidimensionalities in the politics of regions: Constituting the 'Phantom Region' of Central Germany. In: Erdkunde 69, 2, 175-186. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2015.02.07
- 2014 Schlottmann, A., Mösgen, A. & T. Böhm: Räumliche Sozialisation und Schule – Theorie und Praxis eines Bausteins humangeographischer Lehrerbildung. In: Zeitschrift für Geographiedidaktik 42, 2, 97-113. https://doi.org/10.18452/23982
- 2012 Schlottmann, A.: Das Unaussprechliche. Akademische Netzwerkwirklichkeiten sprachpragmatisch betrachtet. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 86, 4, 403-410.
- 2012 Busch-Geertsema, A., Lanzendorf, M., Nöthen, E., Prill, T. & A. Schlottmann: Bewegte Welt: Mobilität nachhaltig gestalten – Idee für einen Schnupperkurs in der Wissenschaft. In: Praxis Geographie 42, 44-45.
- 2011 Schlottmann, A.: Allerlei Raum: Eine Nachlese zum „Spatial turn“. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 85, 3, 309-313.
- 2011 Belina, B., Gelinsky, E., Schlottmann, A. & Wissen, M.: Eisel heute? Landschaft und Gesellschaft. Räumliches Denken im Visier. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 85, 1, 105-120.
- 2010 Schlottmann, A., Graefe, O. & B. Korf: Things that matter. A dialogue on interpretative and material semiotics in geography. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 89, 4, 226-236.
- 2010 Schlottmann, A.: Peter Weichharts Entwicklungslinien der Sozialgeographie (2008): Eine Bestandsaufnahme. II Pragmatische Anfragen an die Entwicklungslinien. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 84, 3, 294-297.
- 2010 Graefe, O., Korf, B. & A. Schlottmann: Einführung in das Themenheft Natur und Gesellschaft – Neue Theorien in kritischer Sichtung: Editorial Theorizing Nature and Society – A critical review. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 89, 4, 191-193.
- 2009 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink: Visual geographies – an editorial. In: Social Geography 4, 1-11.
- 2009 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink: Visuelle Geographien – ein Editorial. In: Social Geography 4, 13-24.
- 2008 Schlottmann, A.: Closed Spaces: Can't live with them, can't live without them. In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26, 5, 823-841. https://doi.org/10.1068/d0706
- 2008 Schlottmann, A.: Wie aus Worten Orte werden: Gehalt und Grenzen sprechakttheoretischer Sozialgeographie. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 95, 1/2, 5-23.
- 2007 Schlottmann, A.: Was ist Mitteldeutschland und wo liegt es? Eine etwas andere Länderkunde. In: Geographische Rundschau 59, 6, 4-9.
- 2007 Felgenhauer, T. & A. Schlottmann: Schreiben → Senden → Schauen? – Medienmacht und Medienohnmacht im Prozess der symbolischen Regionalisierung. In: Social Geography 2, 77-83.
- 2006 Schlottmann, A.: Outdoor-Boom und geregeltes Draußen – Anleitungen zum Aufenthalt in der freien Natur. In: Praxis Geographie, 36, 4, 14-17.
- 2006 Schlottmann, A.: Begrenzte Sprache – Sprachgrenzen: Eine Replik auf die Besprechungen. In: ACME 4, 2, 262-269.
- 2006 Schlottmann, A.: Limited Language/Linguistic Limitations: A Reply to the Reviews. In: ACME 4, 2, 270-276.
- 2005 Felgenhauer, T., Mihm, M. & A. Schlottmann: The making of „Mitteldeutschland“. On the function of implicit and explicit symbolic features for implementing regions and regional identity. In: Geografiska Annaler 87B, 1, 45-60.
- 2005 Schlottmann, A.: 2-Raum-Deutschland. Alltägliche Grenzziehung im vereinten Deutschland – oder: warum der Kanzler in den Osten fuhr. In: Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 79, 2/3, 179-192.
- 2005 Schlottmann, A. & H. Gertel: Editorial: Building a bridge between scientific traditions. In: Social Geography 1, 1-2.
- 2003 Schlottmann, A.: Zur Verortung von Kultur in kommunikativer Praxis – Beispiel „Ostdeutschland“. In: Geographische Zeitschrift 91, 1, 40-51.
- 2003 Felgenhauer, T., Mihm, M. & A. Schlottmann: Langage, média et régionalisation symbolique: la fabrication de la Mitteldeutschland. In: Géographie et cultures 47, 85-102.
- 2002 Schlottmann, A.: Globale Welt – Deutsches Land. Alltägliche globale und nationale Weltdeutungen in den Medien. In: Praxis Geographie 32, 4, 28-34.
Book contributions
in print:
- 2023 Schlottmann, A.: Geographie als Weltbeziehungsbildung: Die Bedeutung von Respekt, Reflexivität und Resonanz. In: Pettig, F. & I. Gryl (Eds.): Geographische Bildung in digitalen Kulturen. Perspektiven für Forschung und Lehre. Springer.
- 2023 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink: Cultural Geographies of the visual. In: Ashutosh, I. & Winders, J. (Eds.): The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography. Wiley-Blackwell.
published:
- 2023 Schlottmann, A. & H. Rosa: Resonanzpädagogik. In: Nöthen, E. & V. Schreiber (Eds.): Transformative Geographische Bildung. Schlüsselprobleme, Theoriezugänge, Forschungsweisen, Vermittlungspraktiken. Heidelberg/Berlin: Springer Spektrum, pp. 163-170. https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515132305-008
- 2021 Schlottmann, A.: Geographie als Postwachstumswissenschaft: Gemeinschaftliches Gärtnern in den Feldern der Erkenntnis? In: Dickel, M. & J. Böhmer (Eds.): Die Verantwortung der Geographie. Orientierung für eine reflexive Forschung. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 35-51.
- 2021 Schlottmann, A. & J. Wintzer: Die Herstellung von Geographien in Sprache und Bild. In: Schneider-Sliwa, R., Braun, B., Helbrecht, I. & R. Wehrhahn (Eds.): Humangeographie. Braunschweig: Westermann, pp. 310-319.
- 2021 Schlottmann, A.: Paradigmenpluralität leben. (Notwendige) Herausforderungen und (zu nutzende) Chancen. In: Wintzer, J., Mossig, I. & A. Hof (Eds.): Prinzipien, Strukturen, Praktiken geographischer Hochschullehre. Bern: Haupt, pp. 89-104. https://doi.org/10.36198/9783838556680
- 2021 Pütz, R.& A. Schlottmann: Umkämpfte Nachhaltigkeit – vergessene Leiblichkeit. Der Fall der Wildpferde in Namibia. In: Blättel-Mink, B., Hickler, T., Küster, S. & H. Becker (Eds.): Nachhaltige Entwicklung in einer Gesellschaft des Umbruchs. Berlin: Springer VS, pp. 65-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31466-8_5
- 2021 Miggelbrink, J. & A. Schlottmann: Bildlichkeit. In: Glasze, G. & A. Mattissek (Eds.): Handbuch Diskurs und Raum: Theorien und Methoden für die Humangeographie sowie die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Raumforschung (3. überarbeitete und erweiterte Ausgabe). Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 223-248. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839432181-014
- 2019 Schlottmann, A.: Wildnis. In: Hasse, J. & V. Schreiber (Eds.): Räume der Kindheit. Ein Glossar. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 378-384.
- 2019 Schlottmann, A.: „So fern und doch so nah“. Von Horizonten und Horizonterweiterungen im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch. In: Frischmann, B. & C. Holtorf (Eds.): Über den Horizont. Standorte, Grenzen und Perspektiven. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 57-76. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110553291-005
- 2017 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: Intertwined Spatialities: Discursive Construction(s) of Central Germany. In: Riding, J. & M. Jones (Eds.): Reanimating Regions. Cultures, Politics, Performance. London: Routledge, pp. 159-177.
- 2016 Schlottmann, A.: Visuality. In: Richardson, D., Castree, N., Goodchild, M. F., Kobayashi, A., Liu, W. & R. A. Marston (Eds.): The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley, pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0056
- 2015 Miggelbrink, J. & A. Schlottmann: Wirkung und Wirkungsweise von Images. In: Gans, P. & I. Hemmer (Eds.): Zum Image der Geographie in Deutschland. Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie. Leipzig: Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, pp. 11-16.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. (Wie) Ist Systemkompetenz möglich? Humangeographische, erkenntnistheoretische und pragmatische Perspektiven für eine integrative geographische Bildung. In: Gryl, I., Schlottmann, A. & D. Kanwischer (Eds.): Mensch:Umwelt:System – Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele für den Geographieunterricht. Münster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 99-130.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink: Ausgangspunkte: Das Visuelle in der Geographie und ihrer Vermittlung. In: Schlottmann, A. & J. Miggelbrink (Eds.): Visuelle Geographien. Produktion, Aneignung und Praxis der Vermittlung von RaumBildern. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 13-25.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. & C. Wucherpfennig: Wirklichkeit und Wirkungsweisen von Bildern erforschen. In: Kuckuck, M. & A. Budke (Eds.): Geographiedidaktische Forschungsmethoden. Münster, pp. 136-164.
- 2015 Kanwischer, D. & A. Schlottmann: Länderkunde neu entdeckt. In: Gryl, I., Schlottmann, A. & D. Kanwischer (Eds.): Mensch:Umwelt:System – Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele für den Geographieunterricht. Münster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 217-234.
- 2015 Schlottmann, A. Kanwischer, D. & I. Gryl: Mensch:Umwelt:System – Ein geographiedidaktisches Basiskonzept als Desiderat. In: Gryl, I., Schlottmann, A. & D. Kanwischer (Eds.): Mensch:Umwelt:System – Theoretische Grundlagen und praktische Beispiele für den Geographieunterricht. Münster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 11-22.
- 2013 Baars, R. & A. Schlottmann: The Central German Metropolitan Region - Multiple Spatial Dimensions of Politico-Economic Discourses. In: Carl, D. & L. Reynolds (Eds.): Mobilizing Regions: Territorial Strategies for Growth. London: Regional Studies Association, pp. 13-16.
- 2013 Nöthen, E. & A. Schlottmann: Bild. In: Böhn, D. & G. Obermaier (Eds.): Wörterbuch der Geographiedidaktik. Begriffe von A bis Z. Braunschweig: Westermann, pp. 29-30.
- 2013 Schlottmann, A. & E. Nöthen: Weltbild, geographisches. In: Böhn, D. & G. Obermaier (Eds.): Wörterbuch der Geographiedidaktik. Begriffe von A bis Z. Braunschweig: Westermann, pp. 293-294.
- 2013 Schlottmann, A.: Regionale Identitätsbildung – Bildung zur regionalen Identität. Eine Analyse der Konstruktion von Natur und Mensch im Schulbuch. In: Brand, O., Dörhöfer, S. & P. Eser (Eds.): Die konflikthafte Konstitution der Region: Kultur, Politik, Ökonomie. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 162-185.
- 2013 Schlottmann, A.: Sprache, Staat und Raum. Zur (Neu-)Erfindung von Nation aus sprachpragmatischer Perspektive. In: Belina, B. (Eds.): Staat und Raum. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, pp. 59-76.
- 2013 Schlottmann, A.: Prosumieren im web 2.0: Das Ende des kritischen Konstruktivismus oder seine letzte Instanz? In: Gryl, I., Nehrdich, T. & R. Vogler (Eds.): geo@web. Medium, Räumlichkeit und geographische Bildung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 93-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-18699-3
- 2012 Schlottmann, A.: Reden vom Raum, der ist. Zur alltäglichen Notwendigkeit der Ontologisierung räumlicher Sachverhalte. In: John, R., Rückert-John, J. und E. Esposito (Eds.): Ontologien der Moderne. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 189-206. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-94128-8
- 2012 Schlottmann, A.: Outdoor. In: Marquardt, N. & V. Schreiber (Eds.): Ortsregister. Ein Glossar zu Räumen der Gegenwart. Bielefeld: transcript, 211-216.
- 2010 Schlottmann, A.: Erlebnisräume/Raumerlebnisse: Zur Konstruktion des "Draußen" in Bildern der Werbung. In Wöhler, K., Pott, A. & V. Denzer (Eds.): Tourismusräume. Zur soziokulturellen Konstruktion eines globalen Phänomens. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 67-88.
- 2009 Miggelbrink, J. & Schlottmann, A.: Diskurstheoretisch orientierte Analyse von Bildern. In Glasze, G. & A. Mattissek (Eds.): Handbuch Diskurs und Raum. Theorien und Methoden für die Humangeographie sowie die sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Raumforschung. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 181-198. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839432181
- 2009 Schlottmann, A.: „Endlich Platz!“: Zur Konstitution von Raumerlebnissen in der Werbung. In: Döring, J. (Eds.): Geo-Visiotype. Zur Werbegeschichte der Telekommunikation. Siegen: Universitätsverlag, pp. 35-70.
- 2008 Schlottmann, A.: Raum, Sprache, Stadt und Land. In: Jöchner, C. (Eds.): Räume der Stadt. Von der Antike bis heute. Berlin: Reimer Verlag, pp. 181-195.
- 2008 Felgenhauer, T., Mihm, M. & A. Schlottmann: The making of „Mitteldeutschland“. On the function of implicit and explicit symbolic features for implementing regions and regional identity. In: Geografiska Annaler 87B, 1, 45-60. Nachdruck in: Entrikin, N. (Eds.): Regions. Critical Essays in Human Geography. London: Ashgate, pp. 415-430. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315244891
- 2007 Schlottmann, A.: Handlungszentrierte Entwicklungsforschung. Das Instrument der Schnittstellenanalyse am Beispiel eines Agroforstprojekts in Tanzania. In: Werlen, B. (Eds.): Sozialgeographie alltäglicher Regionalisierungen. Band 3: Ausgangspunkte und Befunde empirischer Forschung. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 69-108.
- 2007 Schlottmann, A., M. Mihm, T. Felgenhauer, S. Lenk & M. Schmidt: „Wir sind Mitteldeutschland!“. Bedeutung territorialer Bezugseinheiten unter raum-zeitlich entankerten Bedingungen. In: Werlen, B. (Eds.) Sozialgeographie alltäglicher Regionalisierungen. Band 3: Ausgangspunkte und Befunde empirischer Forschung, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 297-336.
- 2007 Schlottmann, A.: Foreword. In: Russel, H. (Eds.): Countries of the world: Germany. Washington: National Geographic Society Washington, pp. 4-5.
- 2006 Schlottmann, A.: Freiheit der Berge? – Eine Erkundung von Regeln und Normen im Naturraum. In: Dickel, M. & Kanwischer, D. (Eds.): Tatorte. Neue Raumkonzepte didaktisch inszeniert. Münster: LIT-Verlag, pp. 155-172.
- 2005 Schlottmann, A.: Zur Bedeutung von Kultur-Raum-Containern in der globalisierten Welt – Perspektiven einer Geographie der Differenz am Beispiel „Ostdeutschland“. In: Weingarten, M. (Eds.): Strukturierung von Raum und Landschaft. Konzepte in Ökologie und der Theorie gesellschaftlicher Naturverhältnisse. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 291-313.
- 2005 Schlottmann, A.: Rekonstruktion von alltäglichen Raumkonstruktionen – eine Schnittstelle von Sozialgeographie und Geschichtswissenschaft? In: Geppert, A. T., U. Jensen & J. Weinhold (Eds.): Ortsgespräche. Raum und Kommunikation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 107-136.
- 2005 Doevenspeck, M., Houben, P., Lindner, P. & A. Schlottmann: Bericht über das 5. Rundgespräch der DFG-Geokommission zur „Zukunft der Geowissenschaften“, 23.-24. Februar 2005 in Heidelberg. In: Rundbrief Geographie, 193, 3.
- 2001 Schlottmann, A.: Urbane Schnittstellen – öffentlicher Raum als Treffpunkt von Sozialgeographie und Stadtplanung. In: Kögel, E. (Eds.): Dialoge über den öffentlichen Raum in der Volksrepublik China und Deutschland. Symposium in Shenzen vom März 2000, pp. 109‑116.
- 1998 Schlottmann, A.: Der Besiedlungsgang im südlichen Oberrheintiefland und Südschwarzwald. In: Mäckel, R. & Friedmann, A. (Eds.): Wandel der Geo-Biosphäre in den letzten 15.000 Jahren im südlichen Oberrheintiefland und Schwarzwald. Freiburg i. Br.: Selbstverlag der Universität Freiburg, pp. 73-86.
- 1998 Mäckel, R., Friedmann, A. & A. Schlottmann (1998): Die 14C-Daten der seit 1986 am Institut für Physische Geographie der Universität Freiburg laufenden DFG-Forschungsprojekte im Oberrheintiefland und Schwarzwald. In: Mäckel, R. & Friedmann, A. (Eds.): Wandel der Geo-Biosphäre in den letzten 15.000 Jahren im südlichen Oberrheintiefland und Schwarzwald. Freiburg i. Br.: Selbstverlag der Universität Freiburg, pp. 191-201.
Other contributions
- 2019 Pütz, R. & A. Schlottmann: Welche Natur, für wen und wie zu schützen? Namibias Wildpferde im Fokus von Naturschutzkonflikten. In: Forschung Frankfurt 1, 98-103.
- 2017 Schlottmann, A.: Bild – Macht –Raum! In: Forschung Frankfurt 2, 20-24.
- 2009 Schlottmann, A. & A. Mösgen: Ein Stadtteil im Wandel: Quartiersforschung im Ostend. In: Forschung Frankfurt 3, 14-16.
Culture Dialogues
Concept
The basic idea of this project is to combine future teachers' scholarly education with practical experience in school environments (“Integrated geographical education"). Within the project “CultureDialogues" this idea was transferred to an international scale and to the field of bilingual teaching. One major purpose was to enhance both the intercultural competences of the involved pupils and the professional skills of the students. On a field trip to Southern Sweden the students were not only offered to delve into the Swedish educational system by means of observation and expert interviews, but also enabled to gather teaching experience at a Swedish grammar school (grade 5/6). In order to establish intercultural dialogue not only between pupils, students and teachers but even “at eye level", a Swedish and a German school and two particular classes have been cross-linked in the run-up to the excursion.Progress
In August 2012 a workshop was conducted with the German pupils. The students prepared the children for the first contact with the Swedish class and together they composed posters presenting the school environment and staff.
After having concerned themselves with the Swedish educational system theoretically during the summer term, a group of German students finally visited the Swedish class on Öland in September 2012. In a first lecture they compiled mental conceptions and discussed prevailing images of Germany. The posters made by the German pupils were presented.
Against the hypotheses of diverging relations to nature in Swedish and German cultural backgrounds, the second day was spent with research into the pupils' mental images of nature. On group tried to figure out the boundary between nature and the non-natural by making a transect through the environment on which the pupils should name and map what they assigned to the categories. A second group explored the children's ideas of a forest.
Finally, and as a highlight, a videoconference between the Swedish and the German pupils was taking place via Skype. While this virtual meeting, the pupils briskly discussed a large number of prepared questions.
In May 2013 Prof. Antje Schlottmann and Miriam Pottgießer (graduate student in geography education) went to Öland in order to organise another videoconference, but encountered massive technical problems. Instead, the pupils produced posters of their school and its environment. Their presentations were video recorded; the film was shown to the German pupils after returning to Germany.
Additionally, within the scope of her examination paper, Miriam Pottgießer conducted a set of interviews with both the German and the Swedish participants of the project (pupils, teachers, head of school).
The exchange programme is planned to be continued in 2014 and 2015.
Results
The efforts towards an integration of school and university as well as of theory and practice have resulted in the empirical research project “CultureDialogues".
One main purpose is to analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of an international school cooperation with regard to the acquisition and development of intercultural competences. Secondly, we want to find out whether, and to what extent, new media application such as videoconferencing proves to be of value in everyday school practice.
Miriam Pottgießer finished her thesis “Studying geography without borders?! Potentials and problems of intercultural education based on media using the example of an international learning and teaching project (Gymnasium Riedberg, Germany, and Torslunda Skola, Sweden) by the end of 2013.
An abstract of her paper will appear in the near future.
Winter semester 2020/2021
- Seminar ,,Natur/Gesellschaft/Bildung 1/2: Klimawandel" (Modul: Integrative Geographie),in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Petra Döll, Dienstags 12 - 16h, GW 2.101
- Seminar ,,Stadt als Lebensraum - Schule als Resonanzraum" (Modul: Räumliche Sozialisation und Schule, Lehramt) in Zusammenarbeit mit Nina Schiegl, Donnerstags 10 - 12h, Raum folgt
Winter semester 2019/20
- Seminar „Stadt als Lebensraum - thursdays for future" (Modul: Räumliche Sozialisation und Schule, Lehramt)in Zusammenarbeit mit Eva Nöthen, Donnerstags 10 - 12h, SP 0.03
Summer semester 2019
- Blockseminar „Stadt als Lebensraum - Räumliche Sozialisation zwischen Naturentfremdung und außerschulischer Bildung"
- Seminar Projektseminar "Quartiersanalyse: Urbanes Grün - Räumliche Sozialisation zwischen Naturentfremdung und außerschulischer Bildung" (Modul: Räumliche Sozialisation und Bildung), in Kooperation mit dem Adorno Gymnasium
Summer semester 2018
- Seminar Projektseminar Quartiersanalyse: Urbanes Grün - städtische Natur als Sozialisationsraum und Bildungsort; (Modul: Räumliche Sozialisation und Bildung)
- Projektseminar "Urban Wildlife: Mensch-Tier-Netzwerke im urbanen Kontext" (Modul: [HG2] Lehrforschungsprojekt Wirtschaft und Stadt, Master),in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Robert Pütz, Dienstags 9.30 -12 Uhr
Winter semester 2017/2018
- Seminar Umwelterziehung plus: Klimawandel (Modul: Umwelterziehung - Natur/Gesellschaft oder Geographie der Differenzen, Lehramt), in Zusammenarbeit mit Petra Döll, dienstags 12-16 Uhr
- Seminar „Stadt als Lebensraum - Leben in Frankfurt-Frankfurt erleben. Frankfurter Quartiere aus der Innensicht; (Modul: Politik und Steuerung – Geographische Stadtforschung, Lehramt), donnerstags 10-12 Uhr
- Projektseminar "Urban Wildlife: Mensch-Tier-Netzwerke im urbanen Kontext" (Modul: [HG2] Lehrforschungsprojekt Wirtschaft und Stadt, Master), in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Robert Pütz, Dienstags 9.30 -12 Uhr
Winter semester 2016/2017
- Seminar Umwelterziehung plus: Klimawandel (Modul: Umwelterziehung - Natur/Gesellschaft oder Geographie der Differenzen, Lehramt), in Zusammenarbeit mit Petra Döll, dienstags 12-16 Uhr
- Seminar „Stadt als Lebensraum - Leben in Frankfurt-Frankfurt erleben. Frankfurter Quartiere aus der Innensicht; (Modul: Politik und Steuerung – Geographische Stadtforschung, Lehramt)
Christoph Geissler
Pedagogical staff
Robert Lämmchen
Research associate
Marketa Mohn
Sekretary
E-Mail
Nina Schiegl
PhD student
Dr. Birte Schröder
Research associate