Mathias Hack
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Historian @UniLeipzig, interested in East Africa, tourism and travel, (post)colonialism, global history, Sachsen, PhD-student with @studienstiftung
Leipzig, Germany
Joined October 2013
RT @ENIUGH91: Did you write an excellent MA or PhD thesis in global history? The call for applications for the Walter-Markov-Prize 2025 is….
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The call for applications for the Walter-Markov-Prize 2025 has been closed, the recipient(s) will be announced at the eighth ENIUGH congress taking place at Linneaus University, Växjö, Sweden…
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Wiederum ein wichtiger Beitrag von Andrea Böhm die in der @zeitonline auf die aktuellen Proteste der Ngorongoro-Maasai gegen Vertreibung aufmerksam macht. Die Verbindung von conservation und Tourismus geht schon lange auf Kosten der Maasai.
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Tansania lockt Touristen aus aller Welt mit grandiosen Naturwundern. Auch auf Kosten der einheimischen Bevölkerung. Nun wehren sich die Maasai.
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Ab heute ist die Webseite Geschichte statt Mythen online und informiert über Geschichtsrevisionismus in Thüringen. @stattMythen .
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Conference @uonbi on "#MauMau: Transitions and Contours of the Postcolonial State" in #Kenya coming up 16th to 18th October 2024. Call for papers and participation is now up. Thanks to @DrOmbongi and others in putting this together.
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More #tourismhistory: It is an age-old question in travel literature: Are you a tourist or a traveller? Find some answers in the 1983 volume of "Der Trotter", the German Globetrotter magazine. :)
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@Tum001Ke is currently digitising the Coastweek newspaper. Large parts can already be accessed here -
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The touristification of the coast came with opportunities and challenges for the local population. Coastweek frequently reported about racist hotel policies which barred single black women to enter hotels - as they were considered prostitutes. [3/4]
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It featured updates on hotels, introduced sights along the coast, amd documented an expanding tourist culture developing around beer feasts, sex and night clubs. For Neckermann and TUI Kenya ranged second third in long-distance travel destinations after 1980. [2/4]
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As it is holiday time, I thought to post some bits of my work on tourism in Kenya: In the early 1980s German speaking tourists grew in such large numbers the Kenyan newspaper Coastweek always featured at least one page in German - and sometimes even a whole special issue. [1/4]
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RT @ddbkultur: The portal “Collections from Colonial Contexts” is online now! It offers centralised access to currently more than 100,000 i….
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Kenyan Police forces have killed protesters of #REJECTFINANCEBİLL2024 near the parliament. This must end now. @GermanyinKenya and @Diplo_Jazz I hope you are adressing Kenyan officials to stop the violence.
“Why are you beating us?” Female protesters cry out after they were assaulted by police officers outside Parliament Buildings
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RT @CNNAfrica: Concerns are mounting in Kenya as reports emerge of protesters going missing amid nationwide demonstrations against proposed….
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Concerns are mounting in Kenya as reports emerge of protesters going missing amid nationwide demonstrations against proposed tax increases in the Finance Bill 2024.
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RT @LarryMadowo: BREAKING: At least 12 prominent social media users have been "abducted in the middle of the night" ahead of protests in Ke….
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We are starting our 2nd day of the summer school @dhiparis about mobility in thr history of Africa. Program and zoom links here -
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And finally many thanks to organisation, contribution and support fro @Edictben1 @Delfmt @tobias_wagemann @sabine_hanke_ @karnold01 @TomasBarto12 @kilderbenhauser @dfhufa @gipciera @CRULH3945 @IHMCUMR8066 and the collège doctoral franco-allemand @psl_univ & @UniLeipzig ++. [7/7].
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