Jenaer Sozialgeographische Manuskripte
The Jenaer Sozialgeographische Manuskripte (Jena Social Geography Manuscripts) is a series of publications that has been in existence since 2008 and has a supra-regional impact, marking the status of social geography at the Jena. In the past years, the series was edited by Prof. Benno Werlen and his staff, and the 18 titles published up to 2016 bear witness to the range of social geographic research in Jena. The series was initially discontinued in 2016.
The first new edition in 2021 of the Jena Social Geographical Manuscripts under the editorship of Jun.-Prof. Simon Runkel continues the tradition of this series of publications. In the coming years, interesting contributions will appear in this series with a certain regularity. This means that the relevance of socio-geographical thinking for the description and explanation of social developments in Jena remains visible.
The editorial team includes Jun.-Prof. Simon Runkel, Dr. Susann Schäfer and Ferdinand Stenglein. The editorial team assumes the task of ensuring the scientific quality of the publications.
All new issues from 2021 onwards will be published as Open Access.
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JSM 19 | 2021: Griesinger/Runkel_Postmigrant Geographies of the City
Learn morepdf, 2 mb · deGriesinger, D. /Runkel, S. (2021): Postmigrantische Geographien der Stadt. Neue Perspektiven auf Migration, Integration und Gesellschaft
Abstract:
The current debate about post-migrant societies fundamentally questions common understandings of migration and integration. As a reaction to the exclusionary questioning of individual affiliations, the lack of representation of the diversity of society in decision-making positions as well as structural exclusion and racism in the immigration country Germany, the critical-emancipatory demand for a new understanding of society is in the foreground. In post-migrant discourses, cities in particular emerge as global hubs of mobility. The debate provides a variety of substantive impulses for municipal integration policy as well as urban and district planning. The post-migrant critique advocates a renegotiation of social self-image with the aim of understanding integration as an intersectional task for all parts of society, which is not only aimed at migrants. In addition to a post-migrant opening of public institutions, the reformulation of target groups for integration policy measures, criticism of exclusion and post-migrant urban and district planning that can take the cosmopolitan and diverse character of cities into account in a positive way are in the foreground.
The issue can be downloaded here:
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JSM 20 | 2022: Ciax_Flushing Down Hegemony
Ciax, K. (2022): Flushing Down Hegemony. Public Toilet Infrastructure and the Politics of Accessibility.
Abstract:
While the public sphere should serve a broad audience of city users, there are multiple material as well as afective dimensions that are excluding bodies from having access or feeling afliated to it. Using the city of Ghent’s publicly available toilet infrastructure as a case study, this paper wants to investigate structures of (non-) material exclusion and inclusion within the public space. Dimensions of gender, class and bodily everyday experiences are going to be identifed in connection to administrative policy, and the material constitution of toilet infrastructures. Additionally, this paper is examining afective dimensions and feelings of belonging to a city.
In a further step, technologies of protest and repair are going to be illuminated, that are understood as a powerful tool to regain accessibility, and by that reappropriate notions of belonging to a city and society.
With the use of ethnographic methods, this paper seeks to not only display multiple perspectives of the Ghent toilet infrastructure, but draw a holistic image of conficts and emotions around the public toilet.The issue can be downloaded here:
