This article concentrates on crises within social geography and discusses the geography of social crises using the example of environmental injustice and the somatization of the environment with respect to food and health. By extending the surface view on embodied subjects as being socio-culturally encoded and discursively normalized, metabolic processes are also addressed. The body is understood as the place where social crises, structures of inequality and discursive categories materialize.

In dem vorliegenden Artikel wir auf Grundlage von Leitfadeninterviews in der Stadt Köln und dem Landkreis Heinsberg der Frage nachgegangen, welche Vorstellungen auf der einen Seite die FluchtmigrantInnen selbst über ihre „Integration“ in Deutschland haben und welche Vorstellungen bei den Personen vorliegen, welche beruflich oder ehrenamtlich mit der Betreuung neu zugewanderter Geflüchteter zu tun haben.

This paper critically examines critical geography’s moralizing high ground. The paper makes this critique through a detour via the analyse of the critical gesture of the Greek cynics that the philosophers Foucault and Sloterdijk take to be a political practice of provocative truth-telling: For Foucault and Sloterdijk, the cynics are anti-dogmatic, anti-theoretical and anti-scholastic. I will argue, however, that the cynic is in danger of speaking from the moral high ground of an anti-critique.