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Editorial board: Jevgeniy Bluwstein, Ottavia Cima, Karine Duplan, Hanna Hilbrandt, Martin Hoelzle, Nadine Marquardt, Laura Péaud, Marco Pütz, Timothy Raeymaekers, Emmanuel Reynard, Cristian Scapozza, René Véron & Alexander Vorbrugg
eISSN: 2194-8798

Geographica Helvetica is a European multilingual free open-access journal of geography. It offers a platform for empirically grounded and theory-driven research and debates in all fields of geography as well as in neighbouring disciplines. The journal is particularly committed to exploring and fostering situated and internationalist perspectives on the manifold connections, disconnections and differences within Europe, and between Europe and other parts of the world. This agenda derives from the specificity of Swiss geography as a meeting ground for different geographical traditions and languages. In addition to standard research articles published in and outside of theme issues in English, German, French and Italian, we also publish a range of shorter and experimental formats and book reviews.

Recent articles

28 Nov 2025
Trapdoors: Palestine solidarity and the authoritarian potential of invisible academic bureaucracies
Theo Aalders, Inès Bakhtaoui, Angela Last, and Eva Youkhana
Geogr. Helv., 80, 493–500, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-493-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-493-2025, 2025
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28 Nov 2025
Book review: Zoos. Aux lisières du domestique de Jean Estebanez (CNRS Éditions, 2025)
Claire Galloni d'Istria
Geogr. Helv., 80, 489–491, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-489-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-489-2025, 2025
26 Nov 2025
Small towns taking different climate change adaptation paths: challenging the dominant leadership paradigm
Wolfgang Haupt, Nicole Mitchell, Carolin Herdtle, and Julia Teebken
Geogr. Helv., 80, 473–488, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-473-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-473-2025, 2025
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24 Nov 2025
Not policing but silence. Reflections on academic practice in a small state
Markus Hesse
Geogr. Helv., 80, 467–472, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-467-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-467-2025, 2025
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19 Nov 2025
Recovering environmental information from steep Alpine ice – development of a lightweight decametric ice corer and first use at Grandes Jorasses (4208 m a.s.l., Mont-Blanc massif)
Ludovic Ravanel, Romain Duphil, Emmanuel Malet, Christine Piot, Olivier Alemany, Xavier Cailhol, and Michel Fauquet
Geogr. Helv., 80, 455–465, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-455-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-455-2025, 2025
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