gerade nochmal Gabriele Dietze zu den Sexismus-Rassismus überkreuzungen gelesen, die nach dem Kölner Silvester 2015 dominant wurden: ausländer als sexuelle gefahr, die mit patriarchaler/rassistischer gewalt gebannt werden muss. Deshalb muss Eralp weiss dargestellt werden, die pali-soli schwarz.

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My only problem is that I’m a slow writer sitting on a huge archive of unfinished pieces. But I loved writing about Latvia and I loved doing fieldwork in Narva and it’s my dream to come back to Narva for deep ethnography during my sabbatical. Please don’t pigeonhole me.

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I know this is an incredibly colonial/postcolonial labelling that if my last name is Qazaq, I only do KZ but seriously, read my earlier comparative work! I didn’t live in Riga or Kyiv for no reason. I travelled up across the whole Baltic and Central Asian region for a decade!

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So tired of people pigeonholing me as “Kazakhstan-only” scholar that I might flip & come back to my Baltic archives and just write a history book on Latvia and Estonia where I was and still am conducting my fieldwork.

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As long as he stays pro-Putin, welcome aboard!

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