Florian Balbiani

From Fieldwork in Japan to Print: The Reciprocal Relationship between Johannes Justus Rein and the Perthes Publishing House On a winter morning in 1875, the geographer Johannes Justus Rein was staying at the German Legation in Tokyo. For over a year, Rein had been conducting field research in Japan under the auspices of a government-sponsored expedition. In a letter to August Petermann (10 January 1875), he outlined his plans for the scholarly evaluation of his fieldwork upon return...

Long before #geography became an academic discipline, Johannes Justus Rein built his reputation through fieldwork in Japan and close ties to the Perthes publishing house. Tobit Nauheim explores how their almost symbiotic relationship shaped global knowledge networks ⬇

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Ein deutscher Afrikanist in Tanganyika: Wie Ernst Dammann 1933/34 Spracharbeit zwischen Wissenschaft, Mission und Nationalsozialismus betrieb – vom Märchensammeln bis zur „Entarabisierung“ des Swahili.

Mein Beitrag im „Themenportal Europäische Geschichte“:
www.europa.clio-online.de/essay/id/fda...

War ja zu erwarten, aber dass es für Putin soooo einfach war, ist schon beeindruckend. Was für ein komplettes Desaster für die amerikanische Diplomatie dieses ganze Theater.

Erfurt 1975: Erinnerung an ein vergessenes rassistisches Pogrom Im August 1975 hetzte ein rassistischer Mob algerische DDR-Vertragsarbeiter durch die Stadt. 50 Jahre später wird an die rassistischen Ausschreitungen erinnert.

#indenMedien Über das, was es in der DDR angeblich nicht gab, wurde nun in EF endlich gesprochen: 50 Jahre nach der Hetzjagd auf algerische Vertragsarbeiter gab es Gedenkveranstaltungen, federführend organisiert durch unsere Oral History Forschungsstelle www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-uni-erfu...

Knowledge Production between Mission, University, and Colonial Administration: Swahili Studies in Britain and Germany, 1840s–1940s The brutalist Philips Building in central London does not look very inviting at first. Nevertheless, it is a magnet for students and researchers from all over the world working on Asia and Africa. Nowadays probably the most important institution in the Global North for research on the Global South, SOAS (School of Oriental and African … Continue reading Knowledge Production between Mission, University, and Colonial Administration: Swahili Studies in Britain and Germany, 1840s–1940s

Read his blog post to find out more: ghil.hypotheses.org/....

#SwahiliStudies #ColonialHistory #AfricanLinguistics #KnowledgeProduction #archivalresearch

📷 Folio of the Swahili poem ‘Utenzi wa Ndiwa na Kozi’ (SOAS, MS 45022c) via SOAS Digital Collections, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
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Florian's study reveals extensive collaboration between European and African scholars, uncovering complex negotiations over authorship and intellectual credit that challenge traditional narratives about knowledge production in colonial contexts.
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Focusing on the practices of knowledge production, from documentation and transcription to manuscript collection and academic publishing, he traces the path from fieldwork in Africa to Africanist publications across missionary, colonial, and academic networks.
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How was European knowledge of Swahili produced?

New archival research by former GHIL scholarship holder Florian Balbiani (@unierfurt.bsky.social‬) looks at Swahili studies to examine the history of African linguistics & philology as a missionary practice & academic discipline the 1840s-1940s.
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Seit Jahren wird behauptet, die Politik zugunsten von LGBT würde dem Osten Europas von der EU aufgezwungen und das sei eins der Motive des
dortigen Populismus. Budapest heute:

Ein deutscher Afrikanist in Tanganyika: Wie Ernst Dammann 1933/34 Spracharbeit zwischen Wissenschaft, Mission und Nationalsozialismus betrieb – vom Märchensammeln bis zur „Entarabisierung“ des Swahili.

Mein Beitrag im „Themenportal Europäische Geschichte“:
www.europa.clio-online.de/essay/id/fda...

The Turkestan Album: War and Peace of Maps and Photographs The Russian campaign in Central Asia can be viewed as an episode in the long history of this territory. Claiming the city of Tashkent in 1865, the fortress of Samarkand in 1868 and the Khanate of Khiv...

Explore the Turkestan Album: a monumental 19th-century visual archive of Russian imperialism in Central Asia. This post critically examines its role in colonial knowledge production.

New post by Inessa Kouteinikova on "Mapping Africa and Asia" @unierfurt.bsky.social

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#blogpost @ Projekt Karafas

The Turkestan Album: War and Peace of Maps and Photographs The Russian campaign in Central Asia can be viewed as an episode in the long history of this territory. Claiming the city of Tashkent in 1865, the fortress of Samarkand in 1868 and the Khanate of Khiv...

Explore the Turkestan Album: a monumental 19th-century visual archive of Russian imperialism in Central Asia. This post critically examines its role in colonial knowledge production.

New post by Inessa Kouteinikova on "Mapping Africa and Asia" @unierfurt.bsky.social

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Horror, purer Horror.

From „no this is not a Sieg Heil but a Roman salute you woke idiots“ to „yeah, it’s something we do“ in just a month.
What’s next?

"Der wahre Führer ist immer auch Richter. [...] Wer beides voneinander trennen oder gar entgegensetzen will, macht den Richter entweder zum Gegenführer oder zum Werkzeug eines Gegenführers und sucht den Staat mit Hilfe der Justiz aus den Angeln zu heben." Carl Schmitt, Dt. Juristen-Zeitung, 1.8.1934

#blogpost @ karafas #perthes #CampusGotha

A Colonial Demarcation Process. Investigating the Formation of the British-German Border between Nigeria and Cameroon In 1903 a complaint by a British official about “leaking German-Cameroonian borders” (Weiss 2000: 168) reached Garoua, the centre of German colonial administration in German-Adamawa, Cameroon. More co...

How did the Anglo-German border between Nigeria and Cameroon come about and did it benefit the slave trade between the colonies?

New post by Nele Tschuschke on our blog Mapping Africa and Asia @unierfurt.bsky.social
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The Mapping of Tibet: A Journey through Different Mapping Practices For many years I have undertaken extensive research on the maps in the British Library’s Wise Collection – showing the route between Lhasa in Central Tibet and Ladakh in the Western Himalayas over a l...

Diana Lange takes us on “a journey through different mapping practices”. How was Tibet represented in European, Chinese and Tibetan maps?

New post on our blog Mapping Africa and Asia @unierfurt.bsky.social: karafas.hypotheses.org/7495.

#blogpost @karafas ⬇️

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The Mapping of Tibet: A Journey through Different Mapping Practices For many years I have undertaken extensive research on the maps in the British Library’s Wise Collection – showing the route between Lhasa in Central Tibet and Ladakh in the Western Himalayas over a l...

Diana Lange takes us on “a journey through different mapping practices”. How was Tibet represented in European, Chinese and Tibetan maps?

New post on our blog Mapping Africa and Asia @unierfurt.bsky.social: karafas.hypotheses.org/7495.