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Planetary Futures : On Life in Critical Times

DOI zum Zitieren der Version auf EPub Bayreuth: https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00008954
URN to cite this document: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-8954-6

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Verne, Julia ; Marquardt, Nadine ; Ouma, Stefan:
Planetary Futures : On Life in Critical Times.
In: Geography Compass. Vol. 19 (2025) Issue 1 . - e70015.
ISSN 1749-8198
DOI der Verlagsversion: https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.70015

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EXC 2052: Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies
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Shelter technologies in action: Humanitäre Geographien prekärer Unterbringung jenseits von Nord-Süd Dualismen
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Abstract

Based upon the opening keynote address at the German Congress of Geography held in Frankfurt am Main in 2023, this article traces the current debate on the planetary in the humanities, social sciences and Earth System Science in three parts. Instead of taking the concept of the planetary for granted, we explore the question of how it is reflected in our respective fields of research (cultural geography, social geography, and economic geography) and what potential it harbors for unearthing new insights. In particular, we consider the possibilities for a planetarily‐oriented cultural geography beyond anthropocentrism, a social geography of housing that focuses on the concept of planetary habitability, and an economic geography that centers the transhistorical and trans‐geographical impact of plantation logics. From our point of view, the planetary is not simply an additional scale but rather a style of thought that increasingly characterizes our present. Since natural and social science approaches meet here in a new way, it seems particularly relevant to ask how we as geographers might allow ourselves to be intrigued and unsettled by the planetary.

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Keywords: anthropocene; habitability; more‐than‐human geographies; planetary turn; planetary urbanization; plantationocene
DDC Subjects: 300 Social sciences
300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology
300 Social sciences > 320 Political science
300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
300 Social sciences > 340 Law
300 Social sciences > 380 Commerce, communications, transportation
Institutions of the University: Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Chair Economic Geography
Faculties > Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences > Department of Earth Sciences > Chair Economic Geography > Chair Economic Geography - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Ouma
Research Institutions > Collaborative Research Centers, Research Unit > EXC 2052 - Africa Multiple: Afrikastudien neu gestalten
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Research Institutions > Collaborative Research Centers, Research Unit
Language: English
Originates at UBT: No
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-8954-6
Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2026 14:31
Last Modified: 03 Mar 2026 14:32
URI: https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/8954

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