Stefan Applis | Spaces, Places & Practices
travel geography & photography
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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