{"title":"Is this the future? Image and imagination in visual discourses on digital farming in Austrian media","authors":"Ernst Michael Preininger","doi":"10.1080/04353684.2023.2261132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2261132","url":null,"abstract":"Using qualitative discourse analysis methodology, the article contributes critical analysis of visually mediated photographic representations of the multi-layered ‘digitization’ concept related to agriculture. In the sample of Austrian print and online media, novel digital farm technologies are mainly presented as a hope to transform food systems to help tackle challenges such as alleviation of heavy work load, foster competitiveness, or support sustainable rural development. Based on perspectives of Visual Geographies and sociologies of expectations in science and technology, the Austrian case shows that the media communication using images of agricultural technologies rather uncritically reproduce societal norms and expectations of how technologies provide solutions, often without specifying systemic complexities, risks and alternative approaches. In addition, it highlights the decisive role of expectations and the prominent role of private developers, affecting the creation of future paths of technology use in agriculture even in regions which are spatially and economically relatively unsuitable for widespread use of large, expensive digitally enhanced machinery like in many Southern parts of Austria. Therefore, the non-transparent mechanisms of how expectations in discourses contribute to political decisions and research directions on agricultural technologies should be subject of further exploration.","PeriodicalId":47542,"journal":{"name":"Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134960331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bianka Plüschke-Altof, Bradley Loewen, Anni Müüripeal, Helen Sooväli-Sepping
{"title":"Balancing participatory planning and planning for resilience in nature-based solutions. A case of transformative agency?","authors":"Bianka Plüschke-Altof, Bradley Loewen, Anni Müüripeal, Helen Sooväli-Sepping","doi":"10.1080/04353684.2023.2258931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2258931","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTParticipatory planning and planning for resilience figure as major trends in striving towards urban sustainability. Yet, recent studies problematize citizen participation in planning for resilience, indicating the need for closer research on surrounding processes and the limits planners face in leading participants to sustainable outcomes. Providing a basis for cross-case learning, the paper examines five urban planning projects in Northern Europe that attempted to involve stakeholders in enhancing urban resilience via nature-based solutions. Considering structural factors that limit planners’ agency in the Nordic and (post-socialist) Baltic context, the results convey tensions between inclusivity and resilience as common challenges across cases that manifest in conflicts over landscape aesthetics, neoliberal contestations of space, and diverting priority setting of stakeholders. The paper argues that these challenges triggered creative strategies which unleashed potentials for transformative planning agency including attempts to gain legitimacy and stakeholder support, build environmental awareness and knowledge among stakeholder groups, and facilitate conflict resolution in stakeholder interactions.KEYWORDS: Participatory planningplanners’ experiencesustainable urban developmentplanning for resiliencetransformative agencynature-based solutions Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The literature on participation is well developed and informed by planning practice. As this has been covered deeply elsewhere, we point the reader to Luyet et al. (Citation2012) for a review with respect to environmental planning, including advantages and risks of participation. We also highlight the well-known ‘ladder of participation’ (Arnstein Citation1969) as well as ‘communicative’ (Healey Citation1992; Citation2003) and ‘deliberative’ planning (Innes and Booher Citation2016; Sager Citation2009), which provide crucial background to current debates around participation.2 While we generally refer to planners in their ‘public official’ capacities, one case had the particularity of involving planning practitioners in academia and in the private sector, which was immaterial to the results. For confidentiality and anonymity, we decline to identify the case.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by H2020 Societal Challenges: [grant no 869764]; Interreg Central Baltic Programme: [grant no 14.5.2018 1/26].","PeriodicalId":47542,"journal":{"name":"Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135148679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unpacking smart specialization strategies: how collective policy-making processes shape the direction of regional strategies","authors":"Moritz Breul","doi":"10.1080/04353684.2023.2257421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2257421","url":null,"abstract":"Regional strategies, such as smart specialization strategies, can set the course for future diversification. Despite its importance, surprisingly little is known about how the underlying policy-making process affects the direction of regional strategies, i.e. the priority areas that regions aim to promote. As a consequence, the underlying reasons why certain regions have difficulties in developing adequate future-oriented strategies remain concealed. The purpose of this article is to provide a framework to unpack the policy-making process of regional strategy development and link it to the policy outcomes. The conceptual elaborations highlight that only by considering the features of this policy-making process, distributed across various actors with heterogenous interests and capabilities, can we explain why regions favour the promotion of certain types of path development over others.","PeriodicalId":47542,"journal":{"name":"Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A pervasive information approach to urban geography research: the case of Turku","authors":"Miriam Tedeschi, Hanna Heino, A. Resmini","doi":"10.1080/04353684.2023.2252229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2252229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47542,"journal":{"name":"Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74199307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Municipalities and communities enabling social innovations in peripheral areas – case studies from Ostrobothnia, Finland","authors":"Kenneth Nordberg, S. Virkkala, Å. Mariussen","doi":"10.1080/04353684.2023.2225537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2225537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47542,"journal":{"name":"Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76691452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irene Gómez-Varo, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, C. Miralles-Guasch, Oriol Marquet
{"title":"Accounting for care in everyday mobility: an exploration of care-related trips and their sociospatial correlates","authors":"Irene Gómez-Varo, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, C. Miralles-Guasch, Oriol Marquet","doi":"10.1080/04353684.2023.2226157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2226157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47542,"journal":{"name":"Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82265324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Residential segregation in a radically changing urban context: experiences from Belgrade","authors":"Ivana Ratkaj, Nikola Jocić, Aljoša Budović","doi":"10.1080/04353684.2023.2226159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2226159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47542,"journal":{"name":"Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76016187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The biopolitics of Chinese tourism governance in the Arctic","authors":"B. Iaquinto, M. Bennett, Xiaofeng Liu","doi":"10.1080/04353684.2023.2224356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2224356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47542,"journal":{"name":"Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography","volume":"17 9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82939187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The socio-spatial distribution of migrants in German cities between 2014 and 2017","authors":"Stefanie Jähnen, Marcel Helbig","doi":"10.1080/04353684.2023.2220332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2220332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47542,"journal":{"name":"Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91001712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Downshifting towards voluntary simplicity: the process of reappraising the local","authors":"M. Nuga, M. Eimermann, Charlotta Hedberg","doi":"10.1080/04353684.2023.2211600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2023.2211600","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47542,"journal":{"name":"Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography","volume":"51 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91117387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}