[Sprache] Nennen Sie Ihre Jezik* doch einfach wie Sie wollen

Die grundsätzliche Benennungsschwierigkeit der „Nachfolgesprachen des Serbokroatischen“ Es besteht nach wie vor große Uneinigkeit darüber, wie die Sprachen zu nennen sind, die eine kluge Berliner Kollegin einmal sehr diplomatisch als „Nachfolgesprachen des Serbokroatischen“ bezeichnet hat. Weiterhin besteht sogar Uneinigkeit und Zerwürfnis darüber, ob es sich überhaupt um mehrere Sprachen handelt – oder nicht vielleicht doch um … Mehr [Sprache] Nennen Sie Ihre Jezik* doch einfach wie Sie wollen

[Dissertation] The discoursive ‚running to and fro‘ between Sarajevo and Istanbul: a Bosniak-Turkish communicative figuration in the context of gentrificating the Ottoman hinterland

  Research Question My central research question is how the experience and collective memory of (mostly forced) Muslim refugeeness — known as muhacirlik in Turkish — is interrelated with the rehabilitation and gentrification of the Ottoman past in significant parts of the political and societal sphere of Turkey and the „Western Balkans“ in the past … Mehr [Dissertation] The discoursive ‚running to and fro‘ between Sarajevo and Istanbul: a Bosniak-Turkish communicative figuration in the context of gentrificating the Ottoman hinterland

[Politik] Civilian death and martyrdom in academia

I listened to that name yesterday, in a podcast of Açık Radyo (Open Radio), with some delay. And I realized — and I actually realize similar absurdities all the time — that scholars quoted in my masters thesis, in my dissertation (underway & in spe), so far living in footnotes and elsewhere in my writings, … Mehr [Politik] Civilian death and martyrdom in academia

[Politik] From Suruç to the suspension of the European Convention on Human Rights

There is this amazing software tool Evernote, which I generally use to store online news articles and other non-confidential documents of all kind somewhere in „the cloud“. To make the respective document easily retrievable by intuition, you can immediately add one or more tags. For instance, if you want to save an article on Recep … Mehr [Politik] From Suruç to the suspension of the European Convention on Human Rights

[Bosnia] In Bosnia (I)

In Bosnia, everything else was quite different from the Izmir experience. Bosnia was the starting and ending point of my Balkans tour, between Sarajevo’s Baščaršija, Mostar’s Old Bridge, Sandžak’s pešter heights and Ibar valley, Prizren’s multilingual place name signs, Macedonia’s shrub lands and Alexander the Great statues. Different were the little things: you drink čaj … Mehr [Bosnia] In Bosnia (I)

[Turkey] What is your memleket? Semi-bohemian coffeehouse reflections in Izmir

Yabancı in İzmir In Izmir, I was a hampered and hobbling yabancı (foreigner) with limited contacts, with less „world“ than in İstanbul. I moved myself from one to another café every day, where I would contemplate in front of my field diary, throwing myself into the indefinite ocean of writing, contained by my migrant notebook, … Mehr [Turkey] What is your memleket? Semi-bohemian coffeehouse reflections in Izmir