Deviant Landscapes A Journey to Exotic and Imaginary Places and Spaces

Deviant landscapes can be physical, or digital or outright fictitious. Whatever their nature or context, they do not conform to normality. Deviant landscapes can be encountered on the face of the earth, on computer screens, in people's minds.

This anthology presents varying perspectives on deviant landscapes, widening the theoretical framework of spatial-and-landscape research by delving into the hitherto almost uncharted realm of deviant landscapes in a way that is missing in the academic literature.

It exposes a variety of perspectives on deviant landscapes, from disparate scientific domains (i.e. geography, literary studies, sociology, game studies, cultural studies) and delivers useful insights into the diverse theoretical approaches that can be adopted to examine such landscapes (neopragmatist, social constructivist, scientometric, art theoretical etc.).

Energy Geographies – an Introduction to Perspectives from France and Germany.- Peripheries – Conflicts – Transformations: Contested Geographies of Energy.- The Role of Crises in Shifting German Energy Geopolitics.- The North Sea and the EU’s Interregional Energy Politics –a Legal Geography Analysis.- Post-Nuclear Redevelopment Trajectories in France and Germany.- The Territories of Coal-Fired Power Plants as Sites for the Reconfiguration of Production Systems: Thoughts on a Meso-Scale of the Energy Transition.- Power Dynamics Below Ground: Investigating Political Geology in Geothermal Energy within the French Energy Transition.- Multidimensional Energy Discourses in the European Cross-Border Region SaarLorLux – Hydrogen as a Common Element ?.- The Discursive Production of Hydrogen Imaginaries and their Spatialities in France and Germany.- The Social Profile of Biogas Farmers in their Respective Territories: Research, Design and Methodology.- Anaerobic Digestion and Sustainability of Agriculture in Brittany: Research at the Crossroads of Geography and Agro-Economics for Assessing the Impact of French Energy Policies.- Climate-Adapted Urban Development-Challenges and Opportunities in Planning Practice.- Exploring Households’ Energy Vulnerability in Housing and Transportation – Residential and Daily Mobility in South-Western France.

Dr. Dr. Fivos Papadimitriou is associate researcher at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and teaches at the University of West Attica. He is the author of the monographs “Spatial Complexity”, “Spatial Entropy and Landscape Analysis”, “Modelling Landscape Dynamics” and “Geo-Topology” (all published by Springer).

Dr. Dr. Olaf Kühne is Professor of Urban and Regional Development at the Department of Geography and the Institute of Political Science at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He is particularly concerned with landscape theory, landscape governance, regional geography, and the effects of policies on landscapes and urban development processes. His theoretical foundations are neopragmatism and social constructivism, while his spatial research focuses on Central Europe, Italy, and the United States of America.