Thomas Michael Blaser
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Gender | Male |
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Occupation | researcher |
Location | Johannesburg, Gauteng |
Introduction | Born and raised in Switzerland, I studied politics in Vancouver and Montreal, Canada. I came to South Africa to research nationalism and nation building, "race" relations and "white" identities, the topics of my PhD thesis at Wits University. |
Interests | Politics and Society, the Fine Arts, Reading, Writing and Debate |
Favorite Movies | She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee), Night on Earth (Jim Jarmush), Zulu Love Letter (Ramadan Suleman), La Cage aux Folles (French and American version), Lord of the Rings, Casablanca |
Favorite Music | Ringo, Omou Sangare, John Coltrane, Coldplay, Joe Zawinul, Kabelo, Busi Mhlongo, Leonard Cohen, Stiller Haas, Miles Davies |
Favorite Books | Siddharta (Herman Hesse), South Sea Stories (Sommerset Maugham), Aux Etats-Unis d'Afrique (Abdourahman Waberi), Corto Maltese (Hugo Pratt), Giovanni's 'Room (James Baldwin), The Origins of Totalitarianism (Hannah Arendt), An Anthology of Chinese Poetry, The collected works of Friedrich Durrenmatt |