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Veröffentlicht am 27. Mai 202127. Mai 2021

German Travelers in Russian Turkestan ‚Discover‘ the Bukharan Jews

The following post is a longer version of the article „Anti-Semitism and Orientalism in German-language Travelogues of Turkestan“ published by Oxus Society on 27 May 2021. In the German language…

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Veröffentlicht am 27. Dezember 2020

Impressions of the Duab (Russian Turkestan)

A reflection on Wilhelm Rickmer-Rickmers‘ famous 1907 lecture to the Central Asian Society The region, which is the subject of the following piece and about which the German explorer Wilhelm…

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Veröffentlicht am 6. Dezember 20206. Dezember 2020

Noble Bukhara – A stroll through the architectural space (Part II)

No matter how far back you look in the literature to learn about the city on the great Silk Road, you will look in vain for reports or documents in…

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Veröffentlicht am 8. Oktober 20204. November 2020

A brief portrait of the city of Termez – situated on the periphery of today’s Uzbekistan

The city of Termez is located in Uzbekistan rather peripherally and is less visited by tourists than the Tashkent-Samarkand-Bukhara-Khiva axis. It is located in the southeast of the country on…

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Veröffentlicht am 21. September 2020

Ella Maillart on the reconstruction of the Central Asian cultural landscape between the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya in 1931

A short look back at a travelogue from the year 1907 by Wilhelm Rickmer-Rickmers When Ella Maillart visited Central Asia, all activities in the Central Asian Soviet Republics were dominated…

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Veröffentlicht am 8. September 202011. Januar 2021

A critical commentary on the film ‚Turksib‘ | The Soviet-Russian View on Central Asia in the Period of the First Five-Year Plan

On the importance of the Soviet film ‚Turksib‘ The strong positive attention that the film „Turksib“ by Soviet documentary filmmaker Viktor Turin attracted in Europe and the USA is best…

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Veröffentlicht am 4. September 20206. September 2020

A look back at the splitting of the Aral Sea – The Kyzylorda region in 2006

A small overview: Conflicts over water in Central Asia All major rivers in Central Asia pass through at least two countries from their source to the estuary or the point…

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Veröffentlicht am 1. September 202016. April 2021

„Changing Asia“ – Travelogue of an Austrian journalist about Uzbekistan in 1930 (II)

Part II: Egon Erwin Kisch on the new role of women in Uzbekistan against the background of Soviet social reconstruction of society. Read Part I: Egon Erwin Kisch, raging reporter…

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Veröffentlicht am 18. August 202025. August 2020

A look back on small-scale agriculture in Uzbekistan at the beginning of the 2000s

An exploration of spaces, people and practices using the example of the region around Samarkand At the beginning of the 2000s, the agricultural situation in Uzbekistan was still mostly unchanged…

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Veröffentlicht am 16. August 202025. August 2020

Uzbek Saturday mood in Shakhrisabz

The use of urban space in the early 2000s before the start of the tourism boom The more than 2000 year old city was a stage of the old Silk…

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I work as an associate professor at the Institute of Geography (Chair of Geographical Education) of Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Germany) and at the Institute of Philosophy of Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany).

My work fokusses on educational processes in geography and processes of social construction of realities.

For research projectes and more doing geography see stefan-applis-geographien.com

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