Grüne Wiese kontra Innenstadt – immer noch ein aktuelles Thema für den Einzelhandel?

Kurzfassung Mit dem gro?fl?chigen Einzelhandel und seinen Standorten besch?ftigen sich Geographen und Planer seit Jahrzehnten. Schlie?lich ist die Versorgung mit Gütern des t?glichen und des speziellen Bedarfs eine unverzichtbare Grunddaseinsfunktion, die allen Menschen zug?nglich sein sollte. Gleichzeitig ist dies ein Bereich, in dem die zunehmende Kapital- und Standortkonzentration in den letzten Jahren auch Probleme bereitete. Grund genug für den Informations- und Initiativkreis „Regionalplanung“ der Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (ARL), sich damit zu besch?ftigen und zu positionieren. Projektkoordinator und Impulsgeber war dabei Dr.-Ing. Dirk Vallée, der auch den Entwurf für das 2006 erschienene Positionspapier der ARL erarbeitet hatte. Dipl.-Geogr. Ute C. Bauer sprach mit dem Technischen Direktor vom „Verband Region Stuttgart“, der dort für die Regional- und die Landschaftsplanung zust?ndig ist, über gegenw?rtige und zukünftige Entwicklungen im Bereich des gro?fl?chigen Einzelhandels.     

Mourning the Un-mournable? Political Theology Between Refugees and Religion

Since the arrival, or the attempted arrival, of millions of refugees in Europe, the performances of the Center for Political Beauty – a Berlin-based collective of artists and activists – have had a huge impact on public and political debates about Germany's migration policies. In this paper, I analyze the performance “The Dead Are Coming” in which the artists buried refugees who drowned in their attempt to enter the European Union. Drawing on Judith Butler's political philosophy of performativity, I assess “The Dead Are Coming” as a “doing” rather than a “describing” of dignity. I argue that the integration of God into the practices of mourning enables both the activists and the audience to resist the differential distribution of dignity in Europe's migration policy. Ultimately, I advocate a re-thinking of political theology in which art learns from theology and theology learns from art in order to promote dignity under de-dignifying conditions.     

Contrasting approaches to ethnohistory in Africa: Vansina,Dillon, Ferguson

Vansina, Jan. Paths in the Rainforests: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. xx + 428 pp. including appendix, notes/references, and index. $45.00 cloth, $17.50 paper.

Dillon, Richard D. Ranking and Resistance: A Precolonial Cameroonian Polity in Regional Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. xiii + 310 pp. including appendix, references, and index. $39.50 cloth.

Ferguson, James. The Anti‐politics Machine: “Development,” Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi + 320 pp. including notes, references, and index. $49.50 cloth.     

Carbon and nitrogen isotope signals in eel bone collagen from Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in northern Europe

Carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis was undertaken on collagen extracted from eel bone from six Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in northern Europe. The results were compared with data obtained on other archaeological fish remains and modern eel caught in fresh and brackish water and from the sea. The possibility of discriminating between freshwater, brackish and marine signals in archaeological eel bone is evaluated and the implications for archaeology discussed. Our data suggest that eel found at coastal Mesolithic and Neolithic sites have carbon isotope signals consistent with a marine origin with no evidence of freshwater residency. The sample of eel bone from one inland site is small but indicates carbon isotope values more consistent with freshwater residency or at least values intermediate between freshwater and marine carbon pools.