Dr. habil Roland Lippuner
Research assistant
Main topics in teaching and research: social and cultural geography, urban research, environment and technology, consumption and supply, social theory and qualitative methods.
Roland Lippuner has been at the Institute of Geography since October 2018. He previously taught and researched at the universities of Jena, Bolzano, Hanover and Bremen. He studied geography and sociology at the University of Zurich. In 2003, he completed his doctorate at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, where he also habilitated in 2010. His teaching and research activities focus on social and cultural geography, geographical urban research and social science environmental research.
Books (monographs and editorships)
Goeke, Pascal; Roland Lippuner and Johannes Wirths (eds.): Construction and Control. On the spatial organization of social systems. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015.
Lossau, Julia; Tim Freytag and Roland Lippuner (eds.): Schlüsselbegriffe der Kultur- und Sozialgeographie. Stuttgart: Ulmer Verlag (UTB) 2014.
Lippuner, Roland: Environment and society. On the geography of a structural coupling. Habilitation thesis, University of Jena 2010.
Lippuner, Roland: Space - Systems - Practices. On the relationship between everyday life, science and geography. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2005.
Articles (in journals and edited volumes)
Lippuner, Roland and Minna Kanerva: Meat from the Laboratory: Perspectives on (Meat) Consumption in the Anthropocene. In: Jana Rückert-John and Melanie Kröger (eds.): Meat. From symbol of prosperity to danger for the future. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2019, 323-344.
Lippuner, Roland: Coexistence and cooperation among the inhabitants of the earth. In: Henning Laux and Anna Henkel (eds.): Die Erde, der Mensch und das Soziale. On the Transformation of Social Relations to Nature in the Anthropocene. Bielefeld: transcript 2018, 205-229.
Lippuner, Roland; Johannes Wirths and Pascal Goeke: The Anthropocene - an epistemic challenge for late modern social geography. In: raumnachrichten.de - Forum for Science Observation, Dialogue and Discussion, 2015.
Lippuner, Roland: Information, energy and technology. On the construction and control of ecological complexes. In: Pascal Goeke, Roland Lippuner and Johannes Wirths (eds.): Construction and Control. On the spatial organization of social systems. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015, 293-318.
Dirksmeier, Peter and Roland Lippuner: Microdiversity and Presence: On the Spatial Order of Urban Interactions. In: Pascal Goeke, Roland Lippuner and Johannes Wirths (eds.): Construction and Control. On the spatial organization of social systems. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015, 243-263.
Goeke, Pascal; Roland Lippuner and Johannes Wirths: From the geography of social systems to a general ecology of society - an introduction. In: Pascal Goeke, Roland Lippuner and Johannes Wirths (eds.): Construction and Control. On the spatial organization of social systems. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2015, 9-22.
Lippuner, Roland: The Assembly of the Collective. On the potential of assemblage research for critical urban research - a commentary on Alexa Färber's "Potenziale freisetzen". In: sub\urban. journal for critical urban research. Volume 2, Issue 1, 2014, 120-125.
Lippuner, Roland: Nature and landscape. In: Julia Lossau, Tim Freytag, Roland Lippuner (eds.): Schlüsselbegriffe der Kultur- und Sozialgeographie. Stuttgart: Ulmer Verlag (UTB), 2014, 38-51.
Lippuner, Roland: Information of the function. A system-theoretical look at the functionality of
design. In: Cloud Cuckoo Land. Internationale Zeitschrift zur Theorie der Architektur, Vol. 17, Issue 32 (Function - Purpose - Use in Architecture and Urban Design), 2012, 210-231.
Lippuner, Roland: Pierre Bourdieu: Social and physical space of the city. In: Frank Eckardt (ed.): Handbuch Stadt. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2012, 125-143.
Lippuner, Roland: Society, environment and technology. On the problem of an "ecology of social systems". In: Social Systems. Journal for Sociological Theory, vol. 17, issue 2, 2011, 308-335.
Werlen, Benno & Roland Lippuner: Social geography. In: Hans Gebhardt, Rüdiger Glaser, Ulrich Radtke and Paul Reuber (eds.): Geographie. Physische und Humangeographie, 2nd completely revised edition. Heidelberg: Spektrum 2011, 687-712.
Lippuner, Roland: Operative Geschlossenheit und strukturelle Kopplung: Zum Verhältnis von Gesellschaft und Umwelt aus systemtheoretischer Sicht. In: Geographische Zeitschrift, 98 vol. 4, 2010, 194-212.
Lippuner, Roland & Julia Lossau: Critique of spatial returns. In: Stephan Günzel (ed.): Space. An interdisciplinary handbook. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2010, 110-119.
Lippuner, Roland: Benno Werlen, in: Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin (eds.): Key Thinkers on Space and Place. Second Edition, London: Sage 2010, 461-468.
Lippuner, Roland, Marc Redepenning & Antje Schneider: Regulation of Diversity. On the construction of cultural landscapes in education, tourism and politics. In: Max Welch Guerra (ed.): Kulturlandschaft Thüringen. Weimar: Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität 2010, 134-154.
Courses in the winter semester 2024/25
Introduction to studying and working techniques
The Propaedeutic Geography course is aimed at first-year students (1st semester). At the weekly work meetings, basic study and work techniques (literature research, text indexing, writing papers, etc.) are covered, questions of study organization and study planning are discussed and interdisciplinary key skills (presentation and discussion techniques, teamwork, time management, etc.) are taught. The learning objectives include the active orientation of students, independent learning and structured action and planning.
Participation in the Geography preparatory course is voluntary. Students on the dual-subject Bachelor's degree course in Geography who are NOT studying the KCL in the professional skills development area can complete four credit points here as part of the "4 steps+" model (1st and 2nd step). This applies to students with a "Specialist Master's" or "Professionalization" degree.
StudIP (for members of the UOS)
Lecture Introduction to Geography (together with Prof. Dr. J.W. Härtling)
Aims:
Through an integrated introduction to geography, students should understand the history of the development of the subject and its paradigms, become familiar with the principles and limits of the natural and social scientific view of the world and reflect on the possibilities and problems of their combination. In addition, current research topics in physical geography and human geography are presented.
Content:
The course is divided into three parts: The first block deals with different phases in the history of the discipline, theoretical foundations and the sub-disciplinary structure of the subject. The second block focuses on research design and research methods. The third block focuses on current research topics in physical geography and human geography. The course thus provides important content-related and methodological foundations for the other modules of the geography degree program.
StudIP (for members of the UOS)
Lecture: Social geography
Aims:
In this lecture, students can familiarize themselves with central approaches and problems of social and cultural geography. They acquire knowledge of selected research results as well as basic concepts and working methods (theories, methods, models).
Content:
The lecture deals with basic concepts of social and cultural geography as well as current approaches and theories on the relationship between society and space. The focus is also on selected fields of research with current issues. These include, for example, territoriality and borders, mobility and migration, microgeographies of everyday life, constructions of nature and landscape, biopolitics and population or digitalization and technology.
Method of delivery:
The lecture can be followed in the specified lecture hall in presence or online in Stud.IP (meeting). There will be no recording.
StudIP (for members of the UOS)
Intermediate seminar: Current approaches and topics in geographical urban research
Aims:
The aim of the seminar is the in-depth examination of theoretical perspectives and empirical questions of geographical urban research. Students become familiar with central concepts and are able to identify current problems. They will be able to discuss these critically and in a solution-oriented manner using concrete case studies.
Content:
The intermediate seminar deals with current approaches and problems in geographical urban research. The focus is, for example, on processes that lead to certain socio-spatial arrangements and their impact on (co)living in the city. Other topics may include the function of public space as a place of encounter and exchange, the symbolic dimension of spatial disparities and the appropriation of urban spaces, specific living environments and "urban culture" (urbanity), urban governance, control and surveillance or the challenges of digitalization.
Allocation of places, working methods and proof of performance:
The binding allocation of places will take place in the first session on Nov. 4, 2024 (in presence). For organizational reasons, participation in this session is mandatory. Attendance is compulsory in the seminar. To earn credit points, regular readings in preparation for the sessions, oral and smaller written contributions (possibly in group work) in the sessions and an independent written term paper are required.
Procedure:
The first session is on 04.11. from 10 am - 12 pm. Thereafter, the seminar will take place every 14 days on Mondays from 8 - 12 on the following dates: 18.11.2024, 02.12.2024, 16.12.2024, 13.01.2025, 27.01.2027. A final meeting is planned for 03.02.2025 from 10 - 12 am.
StudIP (for members of the UOS)