New Publication
The menhir: aesthetic politics of radioactive waste disposal in northern Switzerland
16.02.2026
Rony Emmenegger has published an article in which he examines how a local farmer in the Zürcher Weinland – one of the regions considered for nuclear waste disposal – disrupted the assumption that radioactive…
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Publication for RED
Du cinéma ethnographique à l'éducation Explorer les relations humaines-environnement
11.02.2026
Cet article examine le potentiel éducatif du film ethnographique dans les sciences sociales, en défendant l’idée que la réalisation filmique constitue un mode d’apprentissage spécifique fondé sur l’attention,…
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Special issue call
Special Issue in "The Extractive Industries and Society"
11.02.2026
Rony Emmenegger and Christiane Schürkmann proposed a special issue in the journal The Extractive Industries and Society that focuses on the politics of the underground for the geological disposal of nuclear…
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Géocolloque and Exchange
Critical Archaeology of the Contemporary Past: Exchange with Attila Dézsi Schlingmann
11.02.2026
At the beginning of December, archaeologist Attila Dézsi Schlingmann visited our department in Fribourg for two days. In his lecture at the Geocolloquium on 2nd December, Dézsi Schlingmann provided extensive…
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November 2025
CfP: special issue on critical realism and human-nature relations
04.11.2025
Jan Zumoberhaus proposed a special issue in the Journal of Critical Realism that seeks to examine the potential of critical realism to deepen our understanding of human-nature relations and enhance our…
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Conference
Cold altitudes: knowledge, imagination, and experiences of mountain ice
10.10.2025
From glaciological expeditions to snow myths, from avalanche laws to mountain poetics, ice has shaped how humans engage with high-altitude environments. This conference explores how societies have known,…
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April 2025
Benjamin Buchan's Interview with Universitas
14.04.2025
Benjamin Buchan's Interview "Les derniers monstres du Mont-Rose" has published in Universitas!
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Améliorations structurelles
17.03.2025
Motivations et réticences à adhérer à des projets collectifs d'irrigation. Un travail de master récemment déposé à l'Université de Fribourg s'est penché sur les raisons qui incitent ou freinent les agriculteurs…
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March 2025
Rony Emmenegger's talk with LoTi
12.03.2025
Rony Emmenegger was invited by LoTi (Lägern ohne Tiefenlager) - an activist group in the region proposed for the siting of nuclear waste in Switzerland - to give a talk on the role of activism in the siting…
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