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View article: ‘Nature in the glass’: Principles and practices in low-intervention winemaking
‘Nature in the glass’: Principles and practices in low-intervention winemaking Open
Wine is often portrayed and perceived as a natural product; however, in fact, it's predominantly a highly industrialized, processed commodity. The vast majority of vine is cultivated in monocultural systems, requiring the intensive use of …
View article: Embodied Communication, Sensed Atmospheres, Joint Situations: Human–Horse Encounters from a Neophenomenological Perspective
Embodied Communication, Sensed Atmospheres, Joint Situations: Human–Horse Encounters from a Neophenomenological Perspective Open
This article shows that the German philosopher Hermann Schmitz’s new phenomenology can make a valuable contribution to human–animal studies. The three concepts suitable for this purpose are, first, Schmitz’s concept of embodied communicati…
View article: Towards a discourse and governmentality approach to spatial development – the case of inner city shopping centres
Towards a discourse and governmentality approach to spatial development – the case of inner city shopping centres Open
Using the example of the political-planning discourse on former plans to develop a large-scale shopping centre in the inner city of Mainz, the potential benefits of a discourse and governmentality approach to spatial research subjects is d…
View article: Contested conservation – neglected corporeality: the case of the Namib wild horses
Contested conservation – neglected corporeality: the case of the Namib wild horses Open
This paper is concerned with a herd of wild horses that struggles to survive in the Namib Desert. This case, we argue, reveals ambivalences and critical paradoxes that go along with putting nature–culture dualisms into conservation practic…
View article: Analyzing Migration Management: On the Recruitment of Nurses to Germany
Analyzing Migration Management: On the Recruitment of Nurses to Germany Open
In Germany, a grave labor shortage in the nursing and elderly care sectors has prompted the response of recruiting skilled nursing staff from abroad in recent years. This article analyzes these recruitment practices as forms of “migration …
View article: The emergence of new wine design practices: Flexitanks and the assembling of bulk wine across global rural regions
The emergence of new wine design practices: Flexitanks and the assembling of bulk wine across global rural regions Open
In this paper, we argue that the rapid expansion of exports as a share of global wine production is strongly related to the invention of flexitanks for wine transportation and the concurrent exponential growth of the bulk wine industry. Bu…