Potenzialanalyse Kleinwasserkraftwerke - Vorstudie zu Kraftwerken an Fliessgewässern. Schlussbericht im Rahmen des Programms Kleinwasserkraftwerke

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Vorstudie ist die Entwicklung eines Konzepts für eine möglichst genaue Abschätzung des vorhandenen technischen Potenzials für Kleinwasserkraftwerke in der ganzen Schweiz. Dazu wurden zwei unterschiedliche Ansätze verwendet: Eine Bottom-up Analyse der Firma e c o n c e p t AG. Eine Top-down Analyse des Geographischen Instituts der Uni Bern (Gruppe für Hydrologie)

Keramischer Heizwiderstand, elektrisches Heizelement sowie Vorrichtung zur Erwärmung eines Fluides

patent submitter:Leister Technologies A

Switzerland and 'Colonialism without Colonies'. Reflections on the Status of Colonial Outsiders.

In this essay the theoretical focus of postcolonial theory has been shifted from the cultures and societies of former formal colonies to those countries that have an explicit self-understanding as an outsider within the European colonial power constellation. Using the example of Switzerland, it analyses the presence and perseverance of colonial structures and power relations in a country that has never been regarded as or understood itself as an official colonial power. In a first step, we compare present debates on colonialism in Switzerland with those in neighbouring countries, i.e. France, Germany, Italy and Austria. In a second step, we trace previous research that postulates a link between Switzerland and colonialism, and apply the concept of ‘colonialism without colonies’, which, in contrast, engages with methods and themes that have emerged from postcolonial studies. Finally, we present a specific case study on ‘Swiss commodity racism’ in order to elucidate the concept ‘colonialism without colonies’